Walter Breitfeld
Walter Breitfeld (born December 5, 1903 in Meinersdorf ; † June 21, 1981 in East Berlin ) was a German deputy police president of East Berlin, head of the political department of the border troops of the GDR and SED functionary.
Life
After training as a stocking knitter , Breitfeld worked in this profession until 1931. In 1923 he joined the KPD , in 1926 the Red Front Fighters League , for which he was military director in Meinersdorf. In the winter of 1932 he organized arms transports from the ČSR to Germany. For this, he was sentenced in absentia by the Freiberg Regional Court in 1934 for “high treason and explosives crimes” to ten years in prison, after he had previously emigrated to the Czech Republic . In Prague he was an instructor for the KPD and a liaison for the Red Aid . From 1937 to 1939 he participated in the interbrigades in Spain and also became a member of the Communist Party in Spain. From 1939 to 1941 he was interned in France . From 1941 he took an active part in building the Free Germany Movement and worked as a partisan for the Resistance .
After the war he was a co-founder of the KPD Meinersdorf and organizational secretary of the KPD Zwickau. With the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD , he became a member of the SED and was first secretary of the SED district leadership in Zwickau / Saxony until 1948. On March 15, 1949, he began working in the German People's Police (DVP), of which he was a member until September 1961. In 1949 Walter Breitfeld became deputy head of the Polit-Culture department of the state authority of the People's Police of Saxony. In the same year he began working as an employee in the political administration at the headquarters of the German People's Police in East Berlin. In 1953 he was appointed Deputy Police President and Head of Political Administration in the Presidium of the DVP Berlin (East). From 1954 to 1963 he was also a member of the People's Chamber . Breitfeld was a member of the SED district leadership in Berlin. From May 1957 he finally held the position of deputy head of the German border police / border troops and the head of their political department in Pätz . During his tenure there were organizational changes in the border police, which on September 15, 1961 was subordinated to the Ministry of National Defense . Breitfeld's functions remained unaffected by this. After six months he was retired on February 28, 1962. His successor, Colonel Heinz Seyfert, was given the title of Head of Political Administration.
On the 10th anniversary of the founding of the GDR in 1959, he was appointed major general. Breitfeld had been Vice President of the German Red Cross of the GDR since 1962 .
His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.
Awards
- 1954 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1963 in silver and 1973 in gold
- 1968 Order Banner of Labor
- 1978 Karl Marx Order
literature
- Klaus Froh & Rüdiger Wenzke , (ed.): The generals and admirals of the NVA: A biographical manual. 5th, through. Edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-438-9 , p. 78 u. P. 283.
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Walter Breitfeld . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Walter Breitfeld at the socialist cemetery in Berlin
- Photo by Walter Breitfeld
- Workers General Walter Breitfeld , in: Rotfuchs, No. 154, November 2010 (accessed on February 12, 2016).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Protocol No. 19/57 of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED of April 29, 1957 - Federal Archives
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breitfeld, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SED functionary, deputy police president of East Berlin, head of the political department of the border troops of the GDR and member of the People's Chamber |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meinersdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1981 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |