Willi Beer

Willi Beer (born July 2, 1918 in Hirschberg , † September 18, 1982 in Potsdam ) was a German functionary of the GDR block party DBD . He was chairman of the DBD district association in Potsdam .

Life

Beer grew up as a half-orphan because his father Albrecht was killed in World War I in 1918. After the elementary and advanced school, which he attended from 1924 to 1932 in Hirschberg in Lower Silesia, he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter at the Hirschberg construction company Karl Engelmann from 1932 to 1936. At the same time he joined a workers' mandolin club at the age of 12, and later played in a shawm band. With the entry into this club also the membership in the Jungspartakusbund and in 1932 with 14 years the entry into the KJVD connected . In the course of the ban on all communist organizations after the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, the Hirschberg miners' procession was taken over by the Hitler Youth and Beer initially took away his hobby.

But since he wanted to become a professional musician, Beer voluntarily joined RAD-Musikzug 103 in 1936 and served there until October 1940 in the rank of troop leader . He then served until 1943 as a musician in driver replacement division 8 of the 158th Infantry Division. He was then transferred to the Artillery Replacement Division 28 and was seriously wounded on September 1, 1943 near Poltava. At the end of the war, Beer was taken prisoner of war by the Soviets in the rank of sergeant. In this he went through the prisoner-of-war camps in Kharkov (No. 415), Rogan (No. 415/1), Krasnogorsk and Noginsk . In Kharkov, Beer was a member of the Marxist circle and a member of the camp committee. From July to December 1946 he was a member of the building staff of the Antifa school in Krasnogorsk. He then attended the Antifa School 40a in Noginsk from January to August 1947. This training was ultimately the preparation for his return to Germany.

In the autumn of 1947, Beer set foot on German soil again and went to Gera , where his wife now lived. As a graduate of an Antifa school, he received a job as an instructor for the land reform program at the district soil commission of the district of Gera on December 1, 1947 . At the same time, he joined the SED . This first job after the war was to have a lasting impact on Beers' further career. After the land reform was largely completed in 1948, Beer moved to the then influential VdgB on September 1, 1948 as the full-time district farmer secretary of the Gera district association. In October 1949 he switched from the SED to the DBD, which was initiated by the SED in 1948 . Half a year later, in March 1950, Beer was appointed regional manager of the DBD in Thuringia, whereupon he moved to Erfurt. As a co-opted representative of the DBD, membership in the Thuringian state parliament was associated with this for a short time . In mid-June 1950, however, Beer was delegated to Brandenburg, where he worked in Potsdam as a department head of the VdgB-Landesverband Brandenburg until the state of the GDR was dissolved in July 1952.

With the division of the GDR into districts and the establishment of the corresponding administrative bodies, there was also a corresponding need for cadres. Beer switched to the newly founded council of the Potsdam district, where he was responsible for agriculture as deputy chairman until 1960. During this time he completed a course in 1954/55 at the ASR Walter Ulbricht and in 1958/59 at a school of the Central Committee of the SED in Schwerin. In 1960, Beer switched full-time to the DBD district board in Potsdam, where he initially worked as an organizational secretary and from 1962 as a secretary for training and agar propaganda. In 1966 Beer was elected deputy chairman of the Potsdam district board of the DBD, but in fact he led the district board on behalf of the chairman Herbert Hoffmann . Accordingly, he was a member of the party executive committee of the DBD from 1968 to 1972 and finally acted from September 1970 to April 8, 1972 as chairman of the DBD district committee in Potsdam. His replacement obviously came about because of a dispute with DBD chairman Ernst Goldenbaum . As a result, Beer was hired in May 1972 as director for animal production, cooperation and purchasing in the poultry industry in Potsdam, which was founded in 1972. In December 1977 he was disabled. Beer was also a member of the Potsdam District Assembly and chairman of the Standing Commission “Transport, Communications and Energy” of the District Assembly.

Awards

• 1968 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1978 in silver

literature

• Siegfried Kuntsche , Horst Matschke, Joachim Piskol: How we started - from the democratic land reform to the victory of the socialist production conditions in agriculture. Memories. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1985.
• Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952 . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 , pp. 167f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Work collectives examine candidates for the elections . In: Neue Zeit , September 8, 1976, p. 1.