Werner Bruschke
Ernst Werner Bruschke (born August 18, 1898 in Sudenburg ; † February 17, 1995 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German politician . From 1949 to 1952 he was Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt in the GDR .
Life
The son of metalworker Martin Oswald Karl Adolph Bruschke and Auguste Marie Hedwig Schmidt trained as a locksmith in Magdeburg from 1912 to 1916. He joined the Socialist Workers' Youth in 1912 and the SPD in 1916 . From January 1917 to February 1919 he did military service and was a soldier in the First World War. From 1919 to 1927 he worked as a locksmith in Magdeburg. Afterwards he was a full-time functionary of the SPD and from 1931 to 1933 a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Prussian Province of Saxony .
From 1933 he worked as a tobacco merchant and later an insurance agent. After the NSDAP came to power in 1933, together with Ludwig Wellhausen and Ernst Lehmann, he organized an illegal network of contacts for the Social Democrats in the Magdeburg district. He was arrested several times for his illegal political activities. In January 1939 he was taken into custody again and in July 1941 sentenced by the Magdeburg Regional Court to one year in prison and subsequent protective custody for high treason and treason. From 1942 to May 1945 he was a prisoner in the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps .
On June 12, 1945 he arrived in Magdeburg from Dachau, where he was tasked with building up the SPD in the Magdeburg-Anhalt district. On August 10, 1945, a provincial executive committee of the SPD based in Halle (Saale) under Werner Bruschke was formed. He was only able to exercise the function of secretary of the SPD provincial leadership in Saxony for a short time, as he had to take over the duties of the fatally injured Willy Lohmann (LDP) as vice-president for public education in the province of Saxony on December 1, 1945 . But he still belonged to the secretariat of the provincial and national leadership of the SPD.
In January 1946 he was appointed by the head of the Soviet military administration (SMA) for the province of Saxony, General Kotikow, as the regional president of the administrative district of Magdeburg . From December 1946 to October 1949 he was Finance Minister of Saxony-Anhalt and from September 1948 to December 1949 with Bernhard Koenen, SED state chairman. Since 1946 he was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt and in 1948/49 of the German People's Council. From 1948 to 1954 was a member of the party executive or the central committee of the SED. After the founding of the GDR, he was a member of the People's Chamber from October 1949 to 1954 and Prime Minister of the State of Saxony-Anhalt from October 1949 to July 1952, then until 1954 Chairman of the Council of the Halle District, Member of the District Parliament and member of the SED district management. In November 1954 he resigned from his full-time positions for health reasons. From March 1956 to December 1957 he was chairman of the district revision commission in Halle of the SED. He was dismissed from the district audit commission because he had tolerated "his wife going to West Germany without informing the district management office." He then became a pensioner, but remained a member of the Halle district assembly. Until 1989 he was a member of the central management of the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters .
Bruschke was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit several times, including on May 6, 1955 in silver and in 1988 with the honor bar for the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold. In 1960 he also received the Order of Labor Banner , 1973 the Karl Marx Order and 1983 the Order of the Great Star of Friendship of Nations in gold.
Fonts
- For the right of the class - for the power of the workers and peasants , Halle 1981
literature
- Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Bruschke, Werner . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , pp. 135f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Werner Bruschke in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Ancestry.com. Magdeburg, Germany, Birth Register 1874–1903 [database on-line], Registry Office Sudenburg, Register Number 920/1898
Until 1952: Erhard Hübener | Werner Bruschke
Since 1990: Gerd Gies | Werner Münch | Christoph Bergner | Reinhard Höppner | Wolfgang Böhmer | Pure Haseloff
1945–52: Werner Bruschke | Richard Kunisch | Ernst Lorenz
Since 1990: Werner Münch | Wolfgang Böhmer | Joachim Kupfer | Wolfgang Schaefer | Wolfgang Gerhards | Karl-Heinz Paqué | Jens Bullerjahn | André Schröder | Michael Richter
1945–52: Erhard Hübener | Erich Damerow | Werner Bruschke
Since 1990: Walter Remmers | Karin Schubert | Manfred Püchel | Curt Becker | Angela Kolb | Anne-Marie Keding
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Werner Bruschke (1952–1954) | Helmut Becker (1954–1958) | Otto Leopold (1958–1966) | Helmut Klapproth (1966–1984) | Alfred Kolodniak (1984–1990) | Wolfgang Suess (1990)
Bernard Koenen (1946–1952, former KPD) | Bruno Böttge (1946–1948, formerly SPD) | Werner Bruschke (1948–1949, formerly SPD)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bruschke, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD, SED), MdV, Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1995 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |