Wolfgang Bergold

Wolfgang Bergold (born April 19, 1913 in Dresden , † August 14, 1987 in East Berlin ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism , SED functionary and diplomat . He was Ambassador of the GDR in the North Vietnam .

Life

Bergold, son of a lithographer and porcelain painter , graduated from high school in Dresden in 1932 . Until his relegation in 1933 he studied economics , Russian and Chinese at the Technical University of Dresden .

From 1930 he was a member of the KJVD , in 1930 co-founder of the Socialist Student Union and from 1932 a member of the Free Socialist Student Union . Between 1933 and 1945 he was imprisoned several times: in 1933 he was sentenced to one year in prison and was imprisoned in the Hohnstein concentration camp from April 1933 to July 1934 . After he was released, he returned to work illegally. Bergold was arrested again in December 1934 and sentenced to one year in prison in November 1935 for “preparing for high treason ”. In 1935/36 he was imprisoned in Dresden and in the Sachsenburg concentration camp . Between 1937 and 1941 he worked as a workshop clerk in Dresden. Bergold was one of the co-organizers of the Dresden resistance group around Karl Stein and Herbert Bochow . In April 1941 Bergold was arrested again in Dresden and in March 1942 he was sentenced to ten years in prison by the “ People's Court ” , which - with the exception of his time with the Penal Battalion 999 (from July to September 1943) - he spent in the Waldheim prison until 1945 .

In 1945 he became a member of the KPD, in 1946 of the SED. From May to September 1945 he was involved in setting up the municipal administration in Wilschdorf (Dresden), and from September to November 1945 he worked as a German teacher for Soviet officers in the Soviet military administration in Dresden. Then he worked as a councilor in the state government of Saxony (1945/46) and headed the statistics / organization department in the department for resettlers . After attending the district party school in 1947, he worked at the Sachsenwerk Radeberg until 1954 , first as a technical buyer, then as the secretary of the commercial director and finally from 1948 as the cultural director and party secretary. 1954/1955 he was instructor of the SED district leadership in Dresden , since 1955 employee and deputy head of department in the department for foreign policy and international relations at the central committee of the SED . Between 1963 and 1968 Bergold was ambassador in Hanoi .

From 1969 he was secretary of the central management of the committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters of the GDR and from 1970 secretary of the Fédération Internationale des Résistants (FIR). In 1982 he became chairman of the financial control commission in the central management of the FIR in Vienna .

Wolfgang Bergold urn was on the Central Cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in the graves plant for the victims and persecuted by the Nazi regime buried.

Fonts (selection)

• The intensification of class contradictions in France . In: Einheit (1962), Heft 5, pp. 87-96.
• Vietnam goes from victory to victory . In: German Foreign Policy (1965), Issue 11, pp. 1314–1321.

Awards

• Labor Banner (1966)
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1973)
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold (1978)
• Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit (1983)

literature

• Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 33.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Part II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 20.
• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 18.
• 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 , p. 51.
• Volker Klimpel: Famous Dresdeners. Historical-biographical handbook of important personalities, born in Dresden . Hellerau-Verlag, Dresden 2002, p. 16.
• Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth , Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, p. 291.
• Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Bergold, Wolfgang . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Bergold appointed ambassador . In: Neues Deutschland , September 19, 1963, p. 2.
2. ↑ Wolfgang Bergold. Obituary of the Central Committee of the SED . In: Neues Deutschland, August 15, 1987, p. 2.