Wilhelm Schröder (politician, 1890)

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Wilhelm Schröder (born December 30, 1890 in Altdamm , † October 29, 1972 ) was a German postal worker , university professor and politician ( SED ). From 1949 to 1954 he was State Secretary in the Ministry for Post and Telecommunications in the GDR .

Life

Schröder, the son of a postal clerk, joined the postal service in March 1908. He worked as the head of smaller and department heads for large offices and as an office clerk at various senior post offices . He was initially a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP), was active in the trade union movement and was chairman of the Pomeranian provincial cartel of the German Association of Civil Servants from 1922 to 1926 . He became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and in 1925 was the first German post office clerk to take part in a study trip to the Soviet Union . From 1927 to 1932 he studied economics and law in Berlin alongside his job . In 1930 he passed the diploma examination and was awarded a Dr. oec. PhD .

After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he was reprimanded because of his trade union activities and his writings about the Soviet Union by the Nazis. He founded an anti-fascist group at the Oberpostdirektion Berlin , which he headed for years. Schröder was senior postal inspector at the end of the war .

After the war, at the end of May 1945, he was appointed deputy head of the Oberpostdirektion Berlin and deputy head of the post and telecommunications department in the first post-war Berlin magistrate. From 1945 Schröder was again a member of the KPD, from 1946 of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In August 1945 the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) made him head of the central administration for the postal and telecommunications system in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ). From March 1948 he was President of the Central Administration and Head of the Central Administration for Post and Telecommunications of the German Economic Commission (DWK). When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in October 1949, he was appointed State Secretary of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications. He held this office until February 1954. On February 18, 1954, Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl adopted him as State Secretary and appointed him Professor of Post Economics and Director of the newly created Institute for Economics of Post and Telecommunications at the Friedrich List University of Transport in Dresden. Schröder retired in 1956 and last lived in Berlin.

Awards

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (ed.): SBZ-Biographie , Bonn / Berlin 1964, p. 315.
  • 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. 1023.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 817 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ President Schröder has been with the Post for 40 years . In: Neue Zeit , March 21, 1948, p. 3.
  2. ↑ State Secretary Dr. Schröder 60 years old . In: Neue Zeit, December 30, 1950, p. 4.
  3. ^ Communiqué on the meeting of the Council of Ministers . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 19, 1954, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German post office worker, university professor and politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Old dam
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1972