Sergei Ivanovich Tyulpanov

Tjulpanow (left) with Alexander Dymschitz (May 17, 1946)

Sergei Ivanovich Tjulpanov ( Russian Сергей Иванович Тюльпанов , scientific transliteration Sergej Ivanovič Tjul'panov ; born October 3, 1901 , † February 16, 1984 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet officer and social scientist . He was known from 1945–1949 as an employee of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) .

Life

Tjulpanov at the opening of Berlin University on January 29, 1946. From left: Josef Naas and Theodor Brugsch from DVV , Paul Wandel at the microphone, right Tjulpanov and Solotuchin as representatives of SMAD

Tjulpanow at the World Congress of Peace Forces in Moscow (October 26, 1973) 2nd from right

Tjulpanow was a career officer and joined the CPSU in 1927 . As a regimental commissar he was a teacher at military institutions and studied at the same time 1930-36 social and economic sciences in Leningrad (doctor). During the Great Terror of 1937-38, he hid for a year as a worker on a collective farm . From 1938 he was active again as a teacher, from 1941 also in the training system of the party. 1941-45 he was head of the political department on various front lines.

From October 1945 to September 1949 he headed the propaganda and information department of the SMAD with the rank of colonel. In this function he had many contacts with the politicians of the KPD , SPD and (from 1946) SED , namely with Walter Ulbricht . In 1946 he promoted the unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED and, from 1948, the development of a separate state system in the area of ​​the Soviet Zone based on Soviet models.

In 1949 Tjulpanow was recalled from Germany and promoted to major general. He was a teacher at the Leningrad Naval Academy and from 1957 civil professor at the University of Leningrad .

In 1976 he was awarded the Star of Friendship of Nations in gold in the GDR .

Works

• Political economy and its application in developing countries , Die Wirtschaft, Berlin 1972.
• Memories of German friends and comrades , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1984.
• Germany after the war (1945–1949). Memories of an officer in the Soviet Army , Dietz-Verlag, Berlin / GDR 1986.

literature

• Jan Foitzik:  Tjulpanow, Sergej Iwanowitsch . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Gerhard Wettig (Ed.): The Tjulpanov Report. Soviet occupation policy in Germany after the Second World War. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2012.

Web links

Commons : Sergei Tyulpanov  - collection of images

• Literature by and about Sergei Iwanowitsch Tjulpanow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Sergei Iwanowitsch Tjulpanow in the press kit 20th Century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economy .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jan Foitzik: Soviet Military Administration in Germany 1945-1949 . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-002680-4 , pp. 137 .
2. ↑ Wilfried Loth: Stalin's unloved child. Why Moscow didn't want the GDR . Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87134-085-5 , pp. 130-135 .
3. ^ Jan Foitzik: Soviet Military Administration in Germany 1945-1949 . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-002680-4 , pp. 257 .
4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 7, 1976, p. 5