Waldemar mushroom

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Waldemar Pilz (back right) at a meeting of the chairmen of the GDR bloc parties on December 10, 1982, from left to right: Lothar Kolditz (President of the National Council of the National Front , independent), Manfred Gerlach ( LDPD ), Gerald Götting ( CDU ) , Heinrich Homann ( NDPD ), Ernst Mecklenburg ( DBD ), Erich Honecker and Joachim Herrmann ( SED)

Waldemar Pilz (* 15. February 1922 in Old Chow (then .. County Freystadt i Niederschles ); † 13. June 2004 in Berlin ) was a German SED - official .

Life

Waldemar Pilz was the son of a worker and he attended elementary school . Between 1936 and 1939 he completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked for some time in Hirschberg as an employee before he was recruited into the Wehrmacht in 1940 . In 1944 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets . In 1944/45 he took part in a course at the Antifa school in the village of Talizy. In 1948 he was released from captivity in the Soviet occupation zone . There he became a member of the SED in the same year and was appointed by them as political advisor and later head of a camp for those returning from war in Heiligenstadt . In 1951/52 he was a consultant in the Ministry of the Interior of the state of Thuringia, which continued until 1952, in the Eggerath cabinet . From August 1952 he was an instructor in the State and Legal questions of the Central Committee of the SED . In 1954/55 he studied at the party college "Karl Marx" and from 1956 to 60 at the Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR , in Potsdam, where he graduated as a political scientist.

From 1955 Head of the Central State Bodies Sector, from 1962 Acting Deputy Head of Department and from 1963 Deputy Head of the State and Legal Affairs Department of the Central Committee of the SED. In 1969 he succeeded Irene Köhler as head of the Friendly Parties department in the SED Central Committee . In 1985 Karl Vogel succeeded him in this function. Waldemar Pilz was a member of the People's Chamber in the 8th electoral term from 1981 to 1986 . In 1964, 1968 and 1982 he received the GDR Patriotic Order of Merit in all three levels. Until the end of the SED party dictatorship in 1989, he was still an honorary member of the agitation commission at the Central Committee of the GDR. Since 1955, this commission had developed into a body which gave the basic instructions for reporting in the mass media.

Waldemar Pilz was married and had two children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Data from the obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of June 19, 2004
  2. ↑ a b Andreas Herbst:  Pilz, Waldemar . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  3. ^ Steffen Reichert: Transformation processes: the conversion of the LVZ , LIT Verlag Münster, 2002, ISBN 978-3-8258-4487-5 , p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Mushroom, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), MdV, department head of the SED Central Committee
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Alt Tschau , district of Freystadt i. Lower Silesian.
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2004
Place of death Berlin