Walter Jurich

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Walter Jurich (* 1902 in Böhlitz-Ehrenberg ; † November 28, 1960 ) was a German communist and anti-fascist resistance fighter . From 1946 to 1949 he was police chief of Leipzig .

Life

Jurich, son of a working-class family, attended elementary school and completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter. In 1920 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He became head of the KPD local group in his place of birth, Böhlitz-Ehrenberg, near Leipzig, and represented it in the local parliament from 1926. He was then Gaufführer of the Red Young Front in the West Saxony district. Already during the Weimar Republic he was sentenced to one and a half years imprisonment for “preparation for high treason”.

After 1933 he was persecuted by the National Socialists and taken to the Colditz concentration camp . Until he was arrested again in 1935, he worked as a KPD instructor in the Halle district. He was sentenced to three years in prison. After serving his sentence in Waldheim prison, he was transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp in May 1938 . Here he was the organizer of the Saxon KPD group and coordinated the illegal defense work. After differences with the party leadership, they ousted Jurich from the spy defense and from the function of the Kapos of the equipment room. Walter Wolf was his successor . From June 1943 to April 1945 he was a civil worker with the SS in Buchenwald.

After the liberation from National Socialism , he returned to Böhlitz-Ehrenberg and subsequently took on important functions in the Soviet occupation zone . From October 1945 he was the successor to Dr. Thierbach (SPD) District Administrator of the Leipzig District . He was in 1946 a member of the Socialist Unity Party (SED), and in October 1946 as the leading candidate of the SED in the council elected the district Leipzig.

From September 1946 to 1949 he acted as police chief of Leipzig (successor to Kurt Wagner ). His appointment as police chief of East Berlin , planned for October 1949 , did not materialize. As the successor to Paul Markgraf was finally Waldemar Schmidt in January 1950 by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED appointed. After a voluntary report to the ZPKK , Jurich was replaced by Hans-Hugo Winkelmann as police chief of Leipzig in 1949 and deported to the post of head of VEB Reifenwerk Fürstenwalde (a reparations company). As such, he was involved in the discussion between Walter Ulbricht and the technical intelligence of the tire factory in July 1951 . After a fire disaster in September 1952 in the tire plant, Jurich was dismissed from the position of plant manager in the same year for “party-related incorrect behavior” and received a strict party reprimand and a ban on working for two years. In March 1954, the ban was reduced to a year and a half. He then became department head for work at the sulfuric acid plant in Coswig . Most recently he worked as party secretary in the VVB Elektrochemie und Plastics in Halle (Saale), founded in 1957 .

Jurich died at the age of 58.

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  1. ↑ Top candidates of the SED for the district council elections in the state of Saxony . In: Neues Deutschland , October 13, 1946, p. 1.
  2. ↑ Minutes No. 51 of the meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED on October 18, 1949 - BArch DY / 30 / IV 2/2/51.
  3. ^ Discussion with W. Ulbricht . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 17, 1951, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Soviet soldiers save the state-owned tire factory in Fürstenwalde . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 19, 1952, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Walter Jurich died . In: Neues Deutschland , December 2, 1960, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Jurich, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist, anti-fascist resistance fighter and police president of Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Böhlitz-Ehrenberg
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1960