Willy Mirtschin

Willy Mirtschin (born July 23, 1912 in Burkersdorf near Zittau, † June 6, 1979 in Bautzen ) was a German communist .

Life

Mirtschin grew up with his foster father, the Saxon SPD functionary Paul Nedwig. After attending elementary school and commercial college , Mirtschin became a member of the Socialist Workers' Party and the Socialist Youth Association in 1928. In 1931 he became a member of the KPD. Until his arrest in 1933 he was subdistrict secretary of the Communist Youth Association of Germany in Bautzen. In August 1945 he was commissioned by the KPD Bautzen with the organization of the anti-fascist youth committee, was then district chairman of the FDJ in Bautzen , district instructor of the FDJ in the Oschatz district, and in 1948 first secretary of the FDJ regional organization in Wismut . Later, as a lieutenant colonel, from May 1959 to January 1960 he was deputy head of the command of Military District III in Leipzig. After his service in the NVA, he worked as secretary of the Bautzen City Council.

In Bautzen, the youth culture house on Steinstrasse, today's Steinhaus, was named after Willy Mirtschin from 1982 to 1990.

literature

• Broszat, Martin ; Weber, Hermann; Braas, Gerhard: SBZ manual - State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation Germany 1945-1949 , Oldenbourg
• Diedrich, Torsten ; Wenzke, Rüdiger ; Left, Ch .: The Generals and Admirals of the NVA, a biographical handbook
• Diedrich, Torsten; Wenzke, Rüdiger; Left, Ch .: The camouflaged army. History of the barracked people's police of the GDR 1952-1956
• Happy, Klaus: On the history of the 8th Mot. Rifle Division 1956-1990. Writings on the history of Mecklenburg , Schwerin 2006, ISBN 3-00-018066-4
• Niemetz, Daniel: The field-gray inheritance . Military History Research Office
• Schmeitzner, Mike; Marcus, Wolfgang: In the shadow of the FDJ. The "Young Union" in Saxony 1945-1950 , V&R Unipress

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Germany of July 18, 1965