Willy Marlow

Willy Marlow (also: Willi Marlow ; * July 5, 1928 in Demmin ; † May 17, 2007 in Ahrenshoop , district of Althagen ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was chairman of the Rostock district council .

Life

Marlow, son of a working class family, attended the elementary and middle school . He completed an apprenticeship as an electrician and then worked in this profession at the Demmin gas works. From 1944 he was a sailor helper, in 1945 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and became a British prisoner of war

In 1945 he joined the KPD , in 1946 he became a member of the SED . Marlow was one of the founders of the FDJ in Demmin. From 1948 to 1949 he was secretary of the SED district leadership Demmin and from 1950 to 1951 first secretary of the SED district leadership Neustrelitz and Rostock. In 1951/1952 he studied at the party college "Karl Marx" and was then from 1952 to 1958 an employee, sector leader or deputy head of the department of governing bodies of the parties and mass organizations in the Central Committee of the SED . From 1958 to 1966 he was the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Greifswald . Marlow took up a distance learning course at the University of Rostock , which he graduated in 1969 with a degree in engineering

From 1966 he was first deputy chairman, from June 1969 chairman of the Rostock District Council. Marlow was also a member of the Secretariat of the SED district leadership in Rostock and a member of the district assembly .

In February 1986 Marlow was released from his position as chairman of the Rostock district council "for health reasons and at his own request" and was disabled. He then worked as a volunteer seminar teacher for state and law in the distance learning course of the party university of the SED at the Rostock branch.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1964), silver (1970) and gold
• Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit (1988)

literature

• Manfred Bliefernich: Marlow, Willi . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , pp. 513-514.
• Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED - history, organization, politics. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 1024.
• Andreas Herbst:  Marlow, Willy . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .