Central Party Control Commission

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The Central Party Control Commission (ZPKK for short) was an institution at the SED Central Committee created by the SED on September 16, 1948 in the Soviet occupation zone . The ZPKK had correspondences at all levels of the party in the form of the party control commissions. They existed until the SED was renamed in 1989.

history

assignment

The Central Party Control Commission was responsible, among other things, for exclusion from the party and for the imposition of further party penalties, such as reprimands or strict reprimands. She watched over the “unity and purity” of the party. The ZPKK worked closely with government agencies, including the Ministry for State Security , the Attorney General, the Central Commission for State Control (ZKSK) and the Central Administration of the German People's Police (HVDP). The respective results of the investigation had to be submitted to the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED for a decision. It could also rehabilitate people posthumously. Examples of this are Felix Halle , who was shot in the course of the Stalin purges in 1937 , and Robert Havemann , who was expelled from the GDR Academy of Sciences in 1966 .

activity

In the SED - as happened in the other socialist parties of the Eastern Bloc - the first purges began at the behest of Stalinist cadres. The formal basis was a resolution of the board of directors of the SED on July 29, 1948 "For the organizational consolidation of the party and for its cleansing of hostile and degenerate elements". Members of the party whose attitude or career did not appear to conform to the leadership had to appear before the respective ZPKK. In 1949, the raised first party conference of the SED , the equal representation at central party functions with the exception of the party chairman, after Otto Buchwitz was eliminated as a former Social Democrat in 1950 from the presidency of the ZPPK. In the years that followed, up to around 1953, many longtime members of the labor movement were among those brought to justice, usually through fabricated accusations. For example, allegations of “ social democratism ”, “ Titoism ”, “ Trotskyism ”, as well as earlier involvement in the “ KPDO ” were made, or the fact that “ West emigrant ” or “ Noel Field ” was in contact in any way was sufficient to have been. Many of the proceedings against the accused resulted in forced self-criticism, demotion, dismissals and, in some cases, imprisonment.

Affected by the ZPKK proceedings

A selection of well-known names, representing many of those affected, follows: Alexander Abusch , Anton Ackermann , Leo Bauer , Gitta Bauer , Walter Beling , Paul Bertz , Theodor Beutling , Paul Böttcher , Franz Dahlem , Alfred Drögemüller , Lex Ende , Max Fechner , Rudolf Feistmann , Bruno Fuhrmann , Erica Glaser , Friedrich Giessner , Erich W. Gniffke , Bruno Goldhammer , Rudolf Herrnstadt , Hans Jendretzky , Erich Jungmann , Willi Kreikemeyer , Ewald Kaiser , Norbert Kugler , Wolfgang Langhoff , Paul Merker , Kurt Müller , Wilhelm Peter Prinz , Erich Reschke , Anna Schlotterbeck , Friedrich Schlotterbeck , Werner Schwarze , Fritz Sperling , Berndt Steinberger , Georg Stibi , Hans Straschitz-Schrecker , Hans Teubner , Walter Uhlmann , Jacob Walcher , Erica Wallach , Maria Weiterer , Wilhelm Zaisser , Leo Zuckermann and many more

Chairwoman of the Central Party Control Commission

See also

There were also party control commissions in other communist parties , see e.g. B. Central Control Commission of the CPSU .

literature

  • GDR manual . Vol. 2 M-Z. 3rd edition Cologne, 1985 p. 967.
  • Against the current. The history of the KPD (opposition). Hamburg 2001. ISBN 3-87975-836-0
  • Thomas Klein: "For the unity and purity of the party." The internal party control organs in the Ulbricht era , Böhlau, Cologne, 2002. ISBN 3-412-13401-5

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