Willy Eberling

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Hugo Willy Eberling (born February 20, 1902 in Weimar ; † October 29, 1974 in Berlin ) was a German party functionary ( SPD / KPD / SED ) and chairman of the Thuringian State Commission for State Control.

Life

Like his younger brother Hans Eberling, Willy Eberling came from a family of craftsmen . After attending elementary school , he completed an apprenticeship as an office worker , as which he also worked. In 1919 he joined the Central Association of Employees (ZdA) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was also involved in the " Kinderfreunde " movement and in the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ), of which he became chairman in Thuringia in 1924. He attended national and international youth congresses in Vienna in 1929 and in Prague in 1930. From 1930 to 1933 he was treasurer and district secretary of the SPD in Greater Thuringia . He ran the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) on a voluntary basis as managing director .

After the Thuringian Landtag was newly formed on the basis of the Provisional Act to bring the Laender into line with the Reich , he became a member of parliament for a short time and then lost his mandate like all members of the workers' parties . From 1934 to 1940 he lived on the work as sewing machines - representatives . In the resistance against Nazism , he did not participate. Eberling was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940 and was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he was released in 1945 on his promise to take part in the new socialist beginning. He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and became head of department in the Thuringian Ministry of Supply. In the summer of 1948 he took over the function of chairman of the State Commission for State Control (LKK) on Walter Ulbricht's instructions . In this function he was in a leading position responsible for the synchronization and contributed to important show trials . For example, after Leonhard Moog's arrest, Eberling had members of the LDPD arrested who held leading positions in Meininger Landeskreditbank and the Landesfinanzdirektion. At the end of 1949, the LKK initiated a wave of arrests against social democrats in Thuringian trade cooperatives. The State Control Commission was an instrument of the special justice system with extensive powers. Within the first year of its existence, more than 500 white-collar criminal proceedings had been initiated. These were often used to clean up the state administration.

publication

  • The position of the audit commissions in the consumer cooperative organizations, their tasks and their implementation . Ed .: Felix Müller, Association of German Consumer Cooperatives, Berlin 1958

literature

  • Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 . In: Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Small series Volume 29, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7 , p. 546
  • Thomas Horstmann: Logic of arbitrariness: the Central Commission for State Control in the Soviet Zone / GDR from 1948 to 1958 , 2002, ISBN 3412074012 , online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Weimar, No. 108/1902
  2. ↑ Death register StA Treptow of Berlin, No. 523/1974
  3. ↑ Petra Weber: Justice and dictatorship: Justice administration and political criminal justice in Thuringia 1945–1961, 2000, ISBN 3486564633 , page 211, online
  4. ↑ Petra Weber: Justice and Dictatorship, page 220 ff.
  5. ↑ Petra Weber: Justice and dictatorship, page 184 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Eberling, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eberling, Hugo Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party secretary (SPD / KPD / SPD) and state politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1974
Place of death Berlin