Vladimir Samoilowitsch Gall
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Vladimir Samoilowitsch Gall ( Russian Владимир Самойлович Галл ; born January 20, 1919 in Charkow , Ukraine ; † September 9, 2011 in Moscow , Russia ) was a Soviet cultural officer and university lecturer. In 1945 he saved the lives of hundreds of civilians as one of the parliamentarians in Berlin-Spandau .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1936, Vladimir Gall began studying world literature and German at the Moscow University of History, Philosophy and Literature. Lev Kopelev was one of his teachers . After successfully completing his studies, he volunteered for the Red Army , as Moscow had already called for battle in the Great Patriotic War after Germany's attack on the Soviet Union .
Because of his good knowledge of German, Wladimir Gall was assigned to a special unit. His task was to use loudspeaker trucks to inform the German soldiers about the causes of the war, fascism in Germany and the role of the Red Army directly at the main battle line . His squad was shot at several times. During this time he got to know Konrad Wolf , who had a job similar to his and who later made a monument to Gall with his film I was 19 .
In April 1945, Wladimir Gall and his unit reached Berlin. After reaching Berlin-Spandau he was installed as a parliamentarian together with Major Grischin. Officers of the Wehrmacht and the SS had holed up in the citadel there . Since several hundred civilians would have died in the citadel in an attack, it was decided to negotiate with the commandant regarding a surrender . This took place on May 1, 1945, a few days before the end of the Second World War .
After the end of the war, Wladimir Gall became head of the cultural department of SMAD in Halle (Saale) . After his return to the Soviet Union, he first worked as a teacher at the Antifa Central School in Krasnogorsk , later as a university lecturer for foreign languages in Moscow. In lecture and discussion trips to Germany, he advocated international understanding between Russia / the USSR and Germany for several decades.
Honors
- In Wolfen , a youth brigade from the ORWO plant was named Wladimir Gall .
- In 2005, the Spandau district honored Vladimir Gall with an entry in the Spandau book of honor.
- In May 2015, a memorial plaque for Gall and Major Grischin was installed in the Spandau Citadel.
- On the occasion of the centenary of Vladimir Gall's birthday, the path around the Spandau Citadel was named in Wladimir-Gall-Weg on January 20, 2019 with a ceremony by the District Assembly.
Filmography
- 1968 Konrad Wolf : I was nineteen , a film about the fight between Wladimir Gall and his friend Konrad Wolf
literature
- Wladimir Gall: My way to Halle . Military publishing house of the GDR , Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-327-00625-2 .
- Wolfgang Jacobsen, Rolf Aurich: The sun seeker Konrad Wolf . 2005, ISBN 978-3351025892 .
- Wladimir Gall: Moscow, Spandau, Halle , extended new edition, GNN Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-89819-056-5 , page for the book from the publisher
- Vladimir Gall on his 80th birthday . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 20, 1999.
- Soot on Churchill's coat . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 9, 2001.
- Red Army soldier with a love of peace . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , September 13, 2011; Obituary.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wladimir Samoilowitsch Gall in the catalog of the German National Library
- Vladimir Gall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Wladimir Gall , October 2008
- Obituary Volodya Gall
Individual evidence
- ↑ die-linke-spandau.de
- ↑ http://www.berliner-woche.de/haselhorst/kultur/umstrittene-gedenkafel-erinnert-an-zitadellenretter-wladimir-gall-d76334.html
- ↑ Press release from the Spandau District Office, January 10, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gall, Vladimir Samoilovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Галл, Владимир Самойлович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian parliamentarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kharkov |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 2011 |
| Place of death | Moscow |