Waldemar Schmidt

Waldemar Schmidt (1948)

Waldemar Schmidt (born February 7, 1909 in Berlin ; † February 21, 1975 there ) was a politician ( KPD / SED ) and former police president of Berlin (East) .

Life

Schmidt, who came from a working-class family, worked as a machine fitter after attending primary school and training as a locksmith (1923 to 1927). In 1928 he became a member of the KPD and attended the Lenin School in Moscow from 1932 to 1934 . After his return he took part in the anti-fascist resistance and was incarcerated in Brandenburg prison from 1935 to 1945 .

After the liberation he was secretary of the Berlin district leadership of the KPD from 1945 to 1946 and a member of the party executive of the SED from 1946 to 1947. From 1946 to 1948 he was a City Councilor for Labor and from 1948 to 1950 as City Councilor for Personnel and Administration in Berlin. Schmidt was elected to the city council of Greater Berlin in 1946, to which he belonged until 1967. From 1950 to August 1953 he was President of the People's Police of East Berlin with the rank of Chief Inspector (successor to Paul Markgraf ). From August 1953 to 1963 he was Permanent Deputy Mayor of East Berlin (successor to Alfred Neumann ) 1963 to 1965 Head of the Office of the Ministers of the GDR and from 1965 until his death in 1975. Secretary for International Labor the Committee of Antifascist Resistance Fighters of GDR. Schmidt was also a Berlin representative in the People's Chamber from 1963 to 1971 and belonged to the SED parliamentary group. He was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit (VVO) in silver (May 6, 1955) and gold (1965), the VVO in gold (1969) and the Karl Marx Order (1974).

His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

In 1986 a street in Berlin-Hellersdorf was named after him (since 1992 Erich-Kästner-Straße).

literature

Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst : Biographical handbook of the Berlin city councilors and representatives 1946–1963 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Vol. 14). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , pp. 237-238.
Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 301.
Handbook of the People's Chamber 1967
Andreas Herbst, Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Schmidt, Waldemar (Paul) . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Waldemar Schmidt - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Andreas Herbst, Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Schmidt, Waldemar (Paul) . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 23, 1963
^ New Germany of August 14, 1953
↑ http://www.sozialistenfriedhof.de/pergolenweg.html

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German police chief
DATE OF BIRTH	February 7, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	February 21, 1975
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Andreas Herbst, Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Schmidt, Waldemar (Paul) . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

[2] Berliner Zeitung of September 23, 1963

[3] New Germany of August 14, 1953

[4] ttp://www.sozialistenfriedhof.de/pergolenweg.html