Wilhelm Geiss

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wilhelm "Willi" Geiß (born August 29, 1911 in Koblenz , † after 1986) was a German politician ( SED ). He was the deputy head of the state commission for the establishment of the GDR Council of Ministers and deputy minister of finance in the GDR .

Life

Geiss, the son of a farmer, did military service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War and in November 1942 was captured by the Soviets as a senior grenadier in Grenadier Regiment 215. From December 1943 to March 1944 he attended the Antifa school in Talitzi (camp 165). He joined the National Committee for a Free Germany (NKFD) and came as NKFD- Front representative at the 2nd Byelorussian Front used. At the beginning of May 1945 he returned to Germany with the Red Army in the Soviet occupation zone .

He became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and with the forced unification of the SPD and KPD in 1946 a member of the SED . Geiß was first used as mayor, then as district administrator in the Randow district . From 1949 he worked in the state administration or state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in various functions. He was the head of the municipal department or main department for the state, district and municipal administration in the Ministry of the Interior in Mecklenburg. At the same time he headed the information department.

From 1950 he acted as head of the instruction department of the State Administration Headquarters in the State Secretariat for Internal Affairs under State Secretary Hans Warnke in the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR . On September 20, 1951, he became head of the Central Establishment Plan Inspection and, in July 1953, deputy head of the new State Establishment Plan Commission at the GDR Council of Ministers. From March 1956 to 1963 he held the post of Deputy Minister of Finance and was responsible for the administration of the establishment plan.

From 1964 he was secretary of the Ministry of Finance and from 1971 head of the special audit department in the state financial audit department. After retiring, Geiss lived in Schöneiche near Berlin and worked as the deputy chairman of the district committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters in Fürstenwalde .

Awards

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Bonn / Berlin 1964, p. 103.
  • Günther Buch: names and dates. Biographies of important people in the GDR. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, ISBN 3-8012-0020-5 , p. 78.
  • Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945-1949 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 120 u. 907
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 214 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Gottfried Hamacher with the assistance of André Lohmar, Herbert Mayer, Günter Wehner and Harald Wittstock: Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement, short biographies. Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-320-02941-X online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minutes No. 105/51 of the meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED on September 20, 1951 - BArch DY 30 / J IV 2/3/234.
  2. ↑ Minutes No. 8/56 of the meeting of the Politburo of the SED Central Committee on March 6, 1956 - BArch DY 30 / J IV 2/2/462.
  3. ^ Central Committee of the SED congratulates Comrade Wilhelm Geiß . In: Neues Deutschland , August 29, 1981, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Goat, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geiß, Willi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH after 1986