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Star Of Friendship Of Nations
The Star of People's Friendship (german: Stern der Völkerfreundschaft), Star of Nations' Friendship, was an order awarded by the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Established 20 August 1959, it was given to individuals of exceptional merit who had contributed to the "understanding and friendship between nations and preservation of peace". The Star of People's Friendship was given in three classes: :1st Class – Grand Star of People's Friendship (german: Großer Stern der Völkerfreundschaft) :2nd Class – Star of People's Friendship in Gold (german: Stern der Völkerfreundschaft in Gold) :3rd class – Star of People's Friendship in Silver. (german: Stern der Völkerfreundschaft in Silber) It was awarded on the recommendation of the presidency of the Council of Ministers (german: Präsidium des Ministerrates) via the chairman of the Council of State (german: Vorsitzender des Staatsrates) or in its name. The medal was awarded with a certificate. Notable recipients See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order (decoration)
An order is a visible honour awarded by a sovereign state, monarch, dynastic house or organisation to a person, typically in recognition of individual merit, that often comes with distinctive insignia such as collars, medals, badges, and sashes worn by recipients. Modern honour systems of state orders and dynastic orders emerged from the culture of orders of chivalry of the Middle Ages, which in turn emerged from the Catholic religious orders. Terminology The word order ( la, ordo), in the case referred to in this article, can be traced back to the chivalric orders, including the military orders, which in turn trace the name of their organisation back to that of the Catholic religious orders. Orders began to be created ''ad hoc'' and in a more courtly nature. Some were merely honorary and gradually the ''badges'' of these orders (i.e. the association) began to be known informally as ''orders''. As a result, the modern distinction between ''orders'' and ''decorations'' or ''ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedel Apelt
Friedel Apelt (1 November 1902 - 12 December 2001) was a German political activist, trades union official and politician (KPD/SED). During the Nazi years she participated actively in anti-fascist resistance, and spent much of the time in prison or as a concentration camp internee. After the war she was able to resume her political career in the Soviet occupation zone (relaunched, in October 1949, as the German Democratic Republic). During a long political career she was married three times, and she may be identified in sources by any one of four names. Before her first marriage she was Frieda (or Friedel) Raddünz. After her first marriage, in 1925, she became Friedel Franz. Between 1946 and 1952 she was Friedel Malter. She retained her final name, Friedel Apelt, for nearly fifty years, between 1952 and 2001. Life Provenance and early years Frieda Anna Charlotte Raddünz was born in Breslau (known in English language sources, since 1945, as Wrocław). Her fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lothar Bolz
Lothar Bolz (3 September 190328 December 1986) was an East German politician. From 1953 to 1965 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of East Germany (GDR). Biography Lothar Bolz was born in Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia, now Poland, on 3 September 1903. His father was a watchmaker. He studied law at the universities of Breslau and Kiel. After his study he worked as a lawyer in Breslau In 1930, he joined the Communist Party of Germany. After the Nazis came to power in 1933 he was no longer allowed to work as a lawyer because of his political affiliation. Bolz went to Moscow, finding work as a teacher at the Marx-Engels Institute. From 1941 to 1945 he was headteacher of the anti-fascist school, which aimed to indoctrinate German prisoners of war against fascism. During his stay in the Soviet Union, he became a Soviet citizen and retained dual citizenship. In 1947, he returned to Germany and joined the East German Socialist Unity Party, but in 1948 he founded the Communist-spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Bochow
Frank Bochow (12 August 1937, in Dresden – 10 April 2012, in Berlin) was an East German trade unionist and diplomat. Between 1977 and 1982 he served as his country's ambassador in Portugal. Life Formative years Frank Bochow was born in Dresden shortly before the Second World War. His father, Herbert Bochow was a clerical worker, but is better remembered as a Communist who spent time in the concentration camp at Sachsenburg and on his release stayed in Germany to work for the overthrow of the Nazi regime. Following his third arrest, Herbert Bochow was executed by the Nazis at Plötzensee Prison on 11 March 1942. Through his life Frank Bochow retained an abiding hatred for the German Nazis who had "murdered his father" and as an old man he still would not hesitate to rail against former Nazis who had concealed their pasts and reappeared in ''West'' German public life In this respect he was a great admirer of the investigative journalism of Beate Klarsfeld. Career FDJ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred Bochmann
Manfred Bochmann (15 March 1928 – 18 November 2011) was an East German politician who served as his country's Minister for Geology for fifteen years. Life Bochmann was born into a working-class family in a mining region of Saxony, in a small town some 5 km (3 miles) outside Aue. In 1945 he was called up for national service and joined the army, before being captured and interned as a prisoner of war by the Americans in May/June of that year. In 1945/46 he trained as a toolmaker. He then undertook further education at the local Technical College, and at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology. He obtained a degree in Economics and became a full-time functionary of the country's ruling SED (party) which he had joined in 1946. Between 1962 and 1967 he was Secretary for Economics for the Wismut region leadership. In 1967 he was awarded a doctorate for a dissertation which he had prepared jointly with Günther Lingott entitled "Ways to optimize management of la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lothar Berthold
Lothar Berthold (30 August 1926 – 12 September 2007) was an East German Marxist-Leninist historian, university teacher and publisher. He was also an official of the country's ruling Socialist Unity Party (''"Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands"'' / SED). During the 1960s he was a member of the politburo's "Ideology Commission", widely regarded as one of the most committed and effective propagandists among East Germany's mainstream academic historians. His publications and political engagement after reunification reflected a continuing commitment to East German-style communism. Life Berthold was born in Hindenburg (as Zabrze had been renamed) after 1914). Hindenburg was a substantial manufacturing city in Upper Silesia: the 1921 plebiscite had identified it as a predominantly German-speaking city, albeit by a narrow margin. Lothar Berthold's father worked as a customs official. After completing his school final exams (Abitur) at a relatively young age, in 1943/44 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helene Berner
Helene Berner (real name Helene Welker: 13 December 1904 - 22 December 1992) was a gymnastics teacher who became a German resistance activist. She spent most of the twelve Nazi Years exiled in Moscow, where she took Soviet citizenship and established (or re-discovered) her connections with the GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence). After 1945 she nevertheless returned to Berlin, becoming a party official in the Soviet occupation zone (relaunched in October 1949 as the German Democratic Republic / East Germany). Between 1949 and 1959 she was a senior officer at the Society for German–Soviet Friendship. She also became personal secretary to East Germany's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Georg Dertinger. Dertinger was not trusted by the party leadership, and it later emerged that Helene Berner was providing regular reports on him to the Ministry for State Security (Stasi). Biography Helene Welker was born in Berlin. Her father was a sculptor/stonemason and a party office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helene Berg
Helene "Lene" Berg born Helene Veser (10 April 1906 – 21 February 2006) was a German communist politician and a resistance activist against National Socialism. Between 1958 and 1989 she was a member of the Central Committee of the ruling SED (party) in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), where she was also director of the Berlin based Academy for Social Sciences. Life Early years Helene Veser was born in Mannheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden on 10 April 1906. Her father, formerly a miller, owned a timber business while her mother was in domestic service. Helene successfully completed her schooling in 1923 and entered a dressmaking apprenticeship, remaining in this type of work in Mannheim till 1928. Activism In 1921 she became a member of the SAJ (''Sozialistische Arbeiter-Jugend''), which was in effect the youth wing of the country's SPD (Germany's party of the moderate left). In 1922 she joined the German clothing workers' Trades Union, and in 1924 she j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Bennewitz
Fritz Bennewitz (20 January 1926 – 13 September 1995) was a German theatre director. Life Bennewitz was born in Chemnitz. His father was a train driver: his mother worked as a seamstress. Between 1950 and 1953 he was a student of German studies (language, literature, linguistics) at Leipzig and of Theatre at the German Theatre Institute in Weimar. He went on to lecture on Aesthetics at the Leipzig Theatre Academy. He became a senior theatre director at Meiningen in 1955 where he remained till 1960, which was when he took a position as director at the German National Theatre at Weimar. Fritz Bennewitz became a corresponding member of the Berlin-based Academy of Arts in 1969 and a full member in 1974. Career highlights From as far back as 1957 Bennewitz showed his determination to promote the work of Bertolt Brecht beyond Berlin. By 1960 his Meiningen Court Theatre had become the second most important Brecht theatre in the German Democratic Republic. He brought his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilde Benjamin
Hilde Benjamin ( Lange; 5 February 1902 – 18 April 1989) was an East German judge and Minister of Justice of the German Democratic Republic. She is most notorious for presiding over the East German show trials of the 1950s, which drew comparisons to the Nazi Party's Volksgericht show trials under Judge Roland Freisler. Hilde Benjamin is particularly known for being responsible for the politically motivated prosecution of Erna Dorn and Ernst Jennrich. In his 1994 inauguration speech German President Roman Herzog cited Hilde Benjamin as a symbol of totalitarianism and injustice, and called both her name and legacy incompatible with the German Constitution and with the rule of law.Andrea Feth: ''Hilde Benjamin: 1902–1989,'' in Neue Justiz', 2/2002, p. 64 ff. Life Childhood and education Hilde Lange was born in Bernburg, Anhalt, and grew up in Berlin, in to a middle class and liberal minded Protestant family, the daughter of the engineer Heinz Lange and his wife, Adele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Beling
Walter Beling (19 May 1899 – 31 May 1988) was a German political activist and party official (KPD) who became a resistance activist during the Hitler years. He was released from prison, possibly due to an administrative error, in 1936 and fled the country. He spent much of his time during the war in the so-called "free zone" of occupied France. He returned to occupied Germany in November 1945 and took over as editor-in-chief at the Berliner Rundfunk (radio station). A succession of senior political appointments followed till 1950 when, like many senior party officials at around the same time, he abruptly fell from favour. He was grudgingly more or less rehabilitated in 1956, and at one point transferred to the Foreign Ministry: he undertook a diplomatic posting in Geneva between 1959 and 1965 as East Germany's permanent representative to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Life Provenance and early years Walter Beling was born in Berlin, the son of a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jutta Behrendt
Jutta Behrendt ( Hampe; 15 November 1960 in Berlin) is a German competition rower, world champion and Olympic champion. Hampe competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo and received a gold medal in single sculls at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul."1988 Summer Olympics – Seoul, South Korea – Rowing" ''DatabaseOlympics.com''. Retrieved on 13 June 2008. In October 1986, she was awarded a in gold (second class) for her sporting success. In the 1987 season, Hampe was displaced from the single scull by |
