Werner Reuther
Werner Reuther (born February 16, 1925 in Harthau ; † March 30, 2016 ) was a German police officer. He was Lieutenant General of the German People's Police (DVP) and Deputy Minister of the Interior of the GDR .
Life
The son of a worker did an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman after attending elementary school , was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1943 and was taken prisoner of war by the British in May 1945 , from which he was released in June 1945.
He initially worked as a forest worker, joined the KPD in 1945 and, after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD, the SED in 1946 . He became a member of the DVP in 1946 and was a police officer in his home town of Harthau near Chemnitz until 1950. He was the construction of the Sosa dam involved, the 1949-1952 first FDJ - youth project was built. In 1950 he went to the head office of the DVP in Berlin, was Günther Fischer's successor from 1960 to 1970 head of the passport and registration department of the Ministry of the Interior (MdI) (since 1961 as Colonel of the VP) and as such was involved in the implementation involved in the permit agreement . After attending a Soviet military academy, he was Deputy Head of the DVP from 1971 to 1974 and was appointed Major General by Erich Honecker on June 26, 1973 . After attending the “Karl Marx” party college in 1973/74, he succeeded Gerd Uhlig as Deputy Minister of the Interior and Head of Political Administration and remained in office until 1990. From 1976 to 1989 he was a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED . He was promoted to lieutenant general on June 30, 1978.
Reuther was a member of the Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support and most recently lived in Eichwalde . He died at the age of 91.
Awards
- 1964 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1975 in silver and 1985 in gold
- 1968 Honorary title Honored People's Police of the German Democratic Republic
- 1973 Order Banner of Labor
literature
- Andreas Herbst : Werner Reuther . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , June 27, 1973, p. 1.
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , July 1, 1978, p. 1.
- ↑ Honorary memory in grh-Mitteilungen No. 5/2016 (accessed on June 30, 2016).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reuther, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German police officer and general of the People's Police |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Harthau |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 2016 |
| Place of death | Eichwalde |