Wilhelm Wollmann
Wilhelm Wollmann (born August 2, 1884 , † October 5, 1976 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German local politician ( KPD / SED ). From 1945 to 1947 he was district administrator of the Saalkreis in the administrative district of Halle in the province of Saxony in the state of Saxony-Anhalt .
Life
Wilhelm Wollmann came from the municipality of Ammendorf near Halle (Saale), which was elevated to town in 1937, and learned the carpentry trade . At the age of 19 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Towards the end of the First World War he switched to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) in 1917 and to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1920. He belonged to the KPD local group Ammendorf and took part in the armed March fighting in Central Germany in 1921 . In 1927 he became a member of the KPD district leadership in Halle (Saale) and in 1930 he was elected as a member of the district council of the Saalkreis . In March 1933 he was taken into " protective custody " by the National Socialists , from which he was released in June 1933. From then on, Wollmann was under the supervision of the Gestapo until the end of the war in 1945 .
On July 3, 1945, Wilhelm Wollmann was appointed by the Soviet military government as district administrator of the Saalkreis due to his KPD membership. As such, he was responsible, among other things, for the implementation of land reform and expropriations as well as the union of the SPD and KPD to form the SED in the Saalkreis. In 1947 he was appointed senior government councilor in the Ministry of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt , where he was head of the classified information department from 1948 to 1951. He then lived as a retired party veteran in Halle (Saale) and received numerous public awards and benefits as a persecuted person by the Nazi regime .
Honors
- Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- Medal for participation in the armed struggles of the German working class from 1918 to 1923
- Medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945
literature
- Hermann-Josef Rupieper, Alexander Sperk : The situation reports of the Secret State Police for the Province of Saxony 1933 to 1936 , Volume 2: Administrative region of Merseburg . mdv, Halle (Saale) 2004, ISBN 978-3-89812-214-6 , p. 273.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wollmann, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politicians (KPD, SED) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1884 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th October 1976 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |