Wilhelm Gaida

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Wilhelm Gaida (born November 6, 1902 in Oberhohenelbe (Hořejší Vrchlabí), Northeast Bohemia ; † November 27, 1988 ) was a German party ( KPTsch / SED ) and state official of Sudeten German origin. He was a partisan in World War II and head of the Erfurt district administration of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) and a member of the staff of the MfS.

Life

Gaida, the son of a turner and a weaver , attended elementary school and trained as a coachbuilder between 1916 and 1918 . He then worked with interruptions in the profession. In 1924 he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KPTSch). From 1930 to 1932 he was the local group leader of the KPTsch (successor to his father Wilhelm Gaida, who died in 1930) and then from 1932 to 1938 political director of the Hohenelbe district . In 1937 he was sentenced to six months in prison for courting fighters in Spain . After the occupation of the Sudetenland , he fled to Prague in 1938 and emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1939 . After a successful treatment in a sanatorium in the Caucasus, he signed up for the largest tractor factory in Chelyabinsk and worked there from July 1939 to June 1942. In 1943/44 Gaida attended a party school in Moscow .

In September 1944 Gaida jumped next to Franz Gold , Karl Linke and Josef Schütz in Slovakia, in the Banská Bystrica area. They were supposed to do propaganda work among the German minority in the Slovak rebellion area. After the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising in 1944, Gaida worked as a radio operator in the partisan unit Vpřed.

In 1945 Gaida became chairman of the Antifa committee of the Oberhohenelbe district. As part of an Antifa transport, Gaida came to the Soviet occupation zone . From 1946 to 1948 he was an employee of the SED regional leadership in Thuringia in Weimar . In 1947/48 he attended a half-year course at the party college and was then social director at BMW Eisenach in 1948/49 . In 1949 he was employed by the state administration for the protection of the national economy (from February 1950 state administration for state security) Thuringia. He was Head of Department VI (State Apparatus, Political Parties) and from 1951 Deputy Operational of the Head. From 1952 to 1957 Gaida acted as head of the Erfurt district administration of the MfS. Gaida was also a member of the SED district leadership in Erfurt. In 1957 he became head of the main administration B (internal administration) of the MfS. From 1957 to 1965 he was a member of the staff of the MfS. In 1965 he was dismissed and retired with the rank of colonel .

Gaida was married and the father of two sons. Most recently he lived as a veteran in East Berlin . Gaida was buried in the cemetery for those persecuted by the Nazi regime at the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

Awards

Fonts

  • (with Franz Gold and Josef Schütz): In partisan operation in Slovakia . In: Horst Köpstein: Both sides of the border. About the joint anti-fascist resistance struggle of Germans, Czechs and Slovaks from 1939 to 1945 . German military publisher, Berlin 1965.
  • As a partisan in the mountains of Slovakia . In: Stefan Doernberg (ed.): In league with the enemy. Germans on the Allied side . Dietz, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-320-01875-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gaida - father and son . In: Prague People's Newspaper of January 28, 1977.
  2. ^ Acknowledgments in Neues Deutschland on February 1, 1989.
  3. ^ Central Committee of the SED congratulates Comrade Wilhelm Gaida . In: Neues Deutschland , November 6, 1987, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Gaida, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party functionary (KPTsch, SED), partisan and head of the Erfurt district administration of the MfS
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Upper Elbe
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1988