Wilhelm Bick

Wilhelm Bick (born December 1, 1903 in Essen , † July 13, 1980 in Berlin ) was a German KPD and SED functionary and diplomat . He was chairman of the Schwerin District Council .

Life

The son of a worker was trained as a businessman at the carbon dioxide plant in Essen from 1919. He then worked from 1921 to 1923 in the Essen consumer cooperative. After his release he worked as an unskilled worker in the stone and marble factory in Essen.

From 1926 he was a functionary, from 1927 chairman of the workers gymnastics and sports club. He also joined the KPD in 1926. From 1926 to 1931 he was chief accountant and second managing director at the Ruhr-Echo-Verlag of the KPD. As a member of the KPD district leadership, he traveled with a delegation to the Soviet Union for five weeks in 1930 . From 1932 to 1934 he was managing director of the Arbeiter-Zeitungs-Verlag in Saarbrücken .

From 1933 to 1935 he did illegal political work in the Saar area. He then worked for publishing houses in France , Switzerland and Belgium until 1936 . At the end of 1936 he went to Spain , where he was initially in the XII. International Brigade , later fought in the Thälmann Battalion . In 1937 he was commandant (captain) of the National Guard barracks in Albacete . Because of an illness he had to go to Denmark in 1938 .

On September 7, 1939, he was expatriated from Germany. He continued to do illegal political work from 1940 to 1943. In 1943 he went to Sweden , where he was interned in Smedsbo from October to March of the following year . From the summer of 1944 he worked in Borås and went to Copenhagen a year later .

At the end of 1945 he returned to Germany and went to the Soviet occupation zone . He initially headed the cooperative department in the KPD / SED regional association in Schwerin, later the department for local politics. From 1946 to 1949 he was deputy head of the consumer board in Mecklenburg . At the same time he was a member of the Mecklenburg State Parliament until 1952 . From 1947 he was a member of the secretariat of the SED state committee in Mecklenburg, from 1952 to 1958 of the SED district leadership in Schwerin.

At the beginning of 1948 he became Attorney General of Mecklenburg. After Johannes Warnke was appointed to the Provisional Government of the GDR, Prime Minister Wilhelm Höcker appointed him Minister of the Interior of Mecklenburg on October 18, 1949 . He held this office until July 1952. In 1950 he completed a special course at the Ministry of the Interior in Berlin and in January / February 1950 was also Siegfried Witte's successor for a short time as Minister of Economics for the state.

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From 1950 to 1954 he was a member of the People's Chamber . From July 1952 to May 1958 he was chairman of the Schwerin district council and member of the district assembly. He was then ambassador to Romania until 1963 . He then worked until retirement in 1965 as head of the Northern Europe department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .

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

Awards

• May 6, 1955 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• 1973 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
• 1978 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit

literature

• Michael F. Scholz :  Bick, Wilhelm (Willi) . 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 .

Web links

• Literature about Wilhelm Bick in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Wilhelm Bick in the state bibliography MV
• Literature by and about Wilhelm Bick in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Times from October 19, 1949
2. ^ New Germany of July 30, 1952
3. ^ New Germany of July 28, 1980