Willi Grandetzka

Willi Grandetzka (born March 10, 1927 in Mühlrädlitz , Lüben district ; † April 14, 1979 ) was a German functionary of the GDR block party DBD . He was a member of the People's Chamber and a member of the State Council of the GDR .

Life

Grandetzka, son of a farm laborer , attended elementary school and worked as a farm worker. On April 20, 1944, at the age of 17, he became a member of the NSDAP in the local group Lerchenborn . He did military service in the Wehrmacht and became a prisoner of war .

After the expulsion he came to the Soviet occupation zone and worked in his parents' farm in 1946/1947. Between 1947 and 1951 he was a Neubauer . In 1949 he became a member of the Democratic Peasant Party of Germany (DBD), in 1951 of the Free German Trade Union Federation . Between 1951 and 1957 Grandetzka was a political employee of the DBD in the Merseburg district and on the party executive in Berlin . In 1956/1957 he completed his studies at the institute for the training of functionaries for socialist agriculture in Schwerin with the qualification as a state-certified farmer. From 1957 to 1965 he worked as a secretary, from 1965 to 1979 as chairman of the DBD district board in Erfurt . From 1958 he was a member of the Erfurt District Committee of the National Front . He was a member of the from October 1963 to 1967 District Day Erfurt, from 1965 Deputy District Chairman of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship . From 1963 he was a candidate, from 1968 to 1979 a member of the party executive committee of the DBD and its presidium. From July 1967 to 1979 he was a member of the DBD parliamentary group of the People's Chamber, where he was the first deputy chairman of the committee for citizens' submissions. From November 1971 until his death in 1979 Grandetzka was a member of the State Council.

Awards in the GDR

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1965) and in silver (1969)
• Order Banner of Labor Stage I (1977)
• Medal of Merit of the GDR

literature

• The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 7th legislative term . State Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1977, p. 253.
• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 93.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich et al. 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 239.
• Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . 2nd Edition. Berlin historica, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939929-12-3 , pp. 338f.
• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Grandetzka, Willi . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , April 30, 1977, p. 5.