Willy Sägebrecht

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Willy Sägebrecht (born February 21, 1904 in Groß Schönebeck ; † April 8, 1981 in Berlin ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism and a politician of the KPD / SED . He was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR , a member of the Central Committee of the SED and head of the NVA's military intelligence service .

Life

After attending primary school in Groß Schönebeck and Liebenwalde, the son of a brick maker worked as a farm and industrial worker from 1918 onwards. In 1920 he joined the free trade union German Woodworkers Association and the socialist youth workers . In 1923 he moved to the Communist Youth Association of Germany and in 1925 became a member of the KPD.

From November 1929 to 1930 he was a city councilor in Liebenwalde and a member of the Niederbarnim district council . In 1929/30 he worked as an instructor in the apparatus of the military policy department (camouflage designation for the intelligence service) of the KPD district leadership in Berlin-Brandenburg. In 1930/31 he took part in a functionary course at the military school of the Communist International near Moscow . Then he was an instructor for the KPD Berlin-Brandenburg until 1933. From 1931 on, he was one of Walter Ulbricht's closest collaborators in Berlin, as Policeman of the North sub-district of the KPD district leadership in Berlin-Brandenburg . He was also a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1932 to 1933 .

During the Nazi era , he was imprisoned for eleven years for illegal political activity. In January 1936 he was sentenced to five years in prison by the 2nd Senate of the People's Court for “preparing for high treason” . After staying in Luckau prison, in the Papenburg / Emsland moor camp and in the Wuhlheide labor camp near Berlin, he was deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in March 1941 . He was able to escape during the death march to Schwerin in 1945.

Immediately after the liberation he became a member of the KPD initiative group around Walter Ulbricht. He became an employee of the municipal administration of Berlin in the field of social affairs. In 1945/46 he was also the first secretary of the KPD district leadership in Brandenburg. In March 1946 he was co-opted into the Central Committee of the KPD. From April 1946 to December 1948 he was joint chairman of the SED regional association of Brandenburg together with Friedrich Ebert . After his departure to East Berlin as Lord Mayor, he headed the SED of Brandenburg with Paul Bismark until December 1949 , then until July 1952 as sole chairman or first secretary of the regional association. He contributed to the Stalinization of the party in Brandenburg. From 1946 to 1963 he was a member of the party executive or the Central Committee of the SED .

Sägebrecht was also a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament between 1946 and 1950 . He was chairman of the SED parliamentary group and the committee of the rules of procedure. After the state election of 1946, he pushed through the position of the SED when forming a government. In 1948/49 he was also a member of the German People's Council and then until 1958 a member of the People's Chamber . Since February 1950 he was a member of the National Council of the National Front .

From July 1952 to 1954, Sägebrecht was State Secretary and first deputy chairman of the State Planning Commission . He appeared to be about to embark on a major political career at the time. That did not happen, instead he was "deported" to the KVP . Sägebrecht had been a colonel in the KVP since October 1954 and a colonel in the NVA since 1956 .

From September 1957 he was head of the GDR's military intelligence service (successor to Karl Linke ). He was also responsible for a department of the NVA political administration. This should prepare violent actions and partisan operations in West Germany in the event of war . In August 1959, he officially retired early for health reasons. One reason was that his deputy, Lieutenant Colonel Siegfried Dombrowski , defected to the West in August 1958. His successor on August 31, 1959 was Arthur Franke , whom he had met while fleeing from the concentration camp.

tomb

He had been living in Berlin as a pensioner since September 1959. His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Awards and honors

  • May 6, 1955 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1964 in gold
  • 1979 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
  • On October 6, 1981, VEB Wälzlagerwerk Luckenwalde was given the honorary name "Willy Sägebrecht".
  • On March 1, 1987, Artillery Department 1 in Beelitz was given the traditional name “Willy Sägebrecht”.

publication

Willy Sägebrecht, Fanny Rosner and Heinz Voßke : Don't be an anvil, but a hammer. Dietz 1968.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 21, 1971, p. 8
  2. ^ Dieter Pohl: Justice in Brandenburg 1945–1955. Synchronization and adaptation. Munich, 2001 p. 102
  3. ^ Dieter Pohl: Justice in Brandenburg 1945–1955. Synchronization and adaptation. Munich, 2001 p. 51
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , February 4, 1950, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Dieter Krüger, Armin Wagner: In the field of tension between democracy and dictatorship. German intelligence chiefs in the Cold War. In: Conspiracy as a profession .: German intelligence chiefs in the Cold War. Berlin, 2003 p. 21
  6. ^ Armin Wagner: Karl Linke (1900–1961). NVA secret service chief in the sights of the enemy. In: Conspiracy as a profession .: German intelligence chiefs in the Cold War. Berlin, 2003 p. 157
  7. ^ Klaus Behling: The NVA's intelligence service , p. 28.
  8. ↑ Neues Deutschland , April 24, 1981, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Sägebrecht, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD, SED)
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Gross Schönebeck
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1981
Place of death Berlin