Willi Hockenholz

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Willi Hockenholz (born February 27, 1898 in Brandenburg an der Havel ; † December 29, 1950 ) was a German politician ( SPD / SED ). He was a department head in the Central Secretariat of the SED.

Life

Hockenholz, the son of a master painter, attended elementary school and later a preparatory institute and a teacher training college . In 1917/18 he was a soldier in the First World War . Hockenholz passed the first teacher examination in Aschersleben on December 6, 1919 and the second teacher examination in Berlin-Neukölln on December 11, 1923 . From 1923 to 1933 he was a teacher at 45/46. Life community school in Berlin-Neukölln. In 1933 he was dismissed from school by the National Socialists. After 1933 he worked as a freelance businessman and sales representative for industrial paints.

In 1924, Hockenholz joined the SPD and was head of SPD department 97 in Berlin-Neukölln from 1924 to 1933. After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, he was active in a social democratic resistance group. In 1939 and 1943 Hockenholz was drafted into the Wehrmacht . In 1945 he became a Soviet prisoner of war and was interned in the Stalino camp.

In November 1945 Hockenholz returned to Berlin. From 1946 to 1950 he worked as the main consultant in the main school office for teacher training in Greater Berlin. Hockenholz was one of the supporters of the unification of the two workers' parties and became a member of the SED in 1946. From May 1946 he was on parity (together with Bruno Leuschner and Willi Stoph ) or deputy head of the economics department in the central secretariat of the SED party executive, and there, in particular, was concerned with craft issues. In March 1950 he was appointed chief executive officer of Mitropa , but was imprisoned on November 27, 1950 for alleged economic crimes. Hockenholz committed suicide on December 29, 1950 .

In 1991 he was rehabilitated politically by the Federal Arbitration Commission of the PDS and in 1994 also legally by the Berlin Regional Court .

literature

  • Andreas Herbst : "I have nothing to reproach myself with ..." Social Democrats in the Soviet Zone / GDR: The Willi Hockenholz case. An advocate of unity as "agent exposed" . In: Neues Deutschland , 3./4. February 1996, p. 11.
  • Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52 . LIT Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6321-2 , p. 934.
  • Andreas Herbst :  Hockenholz, 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. ↑ Entry: Hockenholz, Willi . In the archive database of the Library for Research on the History of Education (Berlin).
personal data
SURNAME Hockenholz, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, SED), member of the ZS of the SED
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1950