Wilhelm Steudte

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Wilhelm "Willy" Paul Steudte (born March 4, 1897 in Oberfrohna ; † September 17, 1973 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SED ). In 1952 he was Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of the Mecklenburg State Government and from 1952 to 1953 Chairman of the Council of the Neubrandenburg District .

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Training and activity as an accountant, dispatcher and managing director

Wilhelm Steudte was the son of a textile worker and a homeworker. After attending primary school in Rußdorf , he completed a commercial apprenticeship in the local metal goods factory M. Preßler & Co. from 1911 to 1915. He also attended the commercial school in Limbach . He then worked as an accountant at the seed breeding company in Lochow and at the savings and loan association in Petkus . From 1916 he worked as an accountant and from 1917 as head of accounting at the Prenzlau agricultural district cooperative . This activity was interrupted by a four-month war deployment to the fleet control of the train replacement department Altdamm in autumn 1918.

Until 1925 Steudte was dispatcher and managing director at the Berlin, Köslin and Freienwalde branches of the Raiffeisen cooperative, but lost this position when the cooperative collapsed during the economic crisis. From 1926 to 1929 he was managing director of the Köslin food company E. Strege and then until 1931 dispatcher at the German clothing factory in Köslin.

Political work for the KPD, imprisonment, labor and military service

Steudte, who joined the SPD in 1925 , became a member of the KPD and the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) in 1931 . In the following year he belonged to the Köslin sub-district leadership of the KPD. In this function he was involved in the organization of tenant strikes and the KPD land agitation. Because of illegal party work he was first placed in protective custody (Köslin court prison ) in March 1933 , from June he was interned in the Hammerstein concentration camp and when this was dissolved he was transferred to the Lichtenburg concentration camp in July .

After his release from the concentration camp, he worked from January 1934 to February 1936 on instructions from the Köslin Employment Office as an earthworker, moor and forest worker in a labor camp in Köslin. He then took up a position as an accountant in the Köslin building materials and concrete goods factory Gustav Mahnke. He later became managing director there and stayed with the company until 1945. During this time he was a member of the DAF . In September / October 1939 he had a war mission in the Landesschützen Battalion in Köslin and in February 1945 he became a member of the Volkssturm , but did not comply with the subsequent conscription into the Wehrmacht .

Post-war and political career as an SED member in the Soviet Zone / GDR

From March to October 1945, Steudte built the municipal administration in Köslin together with Richard Schallock and Wilhelm Kons. After Hinterpommern was ceded to Poland, Steudte moved to Greifswald . In December 1945 he was first trustee of the company "Albert Wiedenbohm, building materials, fuel and timber, steam sawmill" and, after its nationalization to VEB Wiedenbohm Greifswald, finally operations manager. He held this position until 1948.

Steudte, who had become a member of the KPD again in December 1945, joined the SED and FDGB in April of the following year . He was also a member of the Mecklenburg State Commission for Land Reform . In the SED he was involved as a member of the party arbitration court and chairman of the district investigation commission of the Greifswald district association. From 1948 he was a member of the district board, later of the Rostock district leadership of the SED. He belonged to the VVN and was recognized as being persecuted by the Nazi regime .

From 1948 to 1949 Steudte headed the industrial supplies department of the United State-owned trading companies of the state of Mecklenburg in Rostock. He then became the main director of the Mecklenburg municipal business enterprise (KWU) in Rostock. Among other things, he was involved in the implementation of the Neubauer program. In March 1950 he was appointed district administrator for the Rostock district. He held this office until January 1952. At the same time he completed a five-month course at the German Administrative Academy "Walter Ulbricht" in Forst Zinna , which he was unable to complete successfully.

On February 1, 1952, Steudte became Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of the Mecklenburg State Government by decision of the Politburo of the SED . There he worked until July 25, 1952 under Prime Minister Bernhard Quandt . In July of the same year he became chairman of the council for the district of Neubrandenburg. At the same time he was a member of the SED district leadership, but after a few months it applied for his replacement. In October 1953, Steudte's term of office as chairman of the district council ended. The SED leadership in Neubrandenburg cited a lack of authority, technical incompetence and illness as reasons. Steudte's loyalty to the line was not questioned and a leading position in economic administration without extensive political responsibility was recommended for him.

Service with the German border police and last years of life

After leaving the council of the Neubrandenburg district, Steudte went to Berlin. In February 1954 he became head of department for the state-owned local industry in the State Secretariat for Local Economy of the GDR. However, he was also released from this position prematurely because he lacked the necessary specialist knowledge. Instead, he joined the German border police in February 1955 . There he initially served as a captain and was chairman of the district party control commission of the border readiness Schenkendorf . In 1957 he became deputy chairman of the district party control commission in the command of the border troops in Pätz . In the same year he was promoted to major. In 1962 he retired in Eichwalde .

From 1964 Steudte was a member of the district revision commission and the commission for the care of old deserving party members at the SED district leadership Königs Wusterhausen . From 1964 to 1971 he worked with the Ministry of State Security . In 1973 he died in Berlin at the age of 76.

Wilhelm Steudte was with the craftsman's daughter Frieda, born in 1920. Strege (1900–1973), married. The marriage had three children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Steudte, Wilhelm. In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 296.
  2. ↑ a b c Steudte, Wilhelm. In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 297.
  3. ↑ a b Steudte, Wilhelm. In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 298.
personal data
SURNAME Steudte, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steudte, Wilhelm Paul (full name); Steudte, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberfrohna
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1973
Place of death Berlin