Anton Plenikowski

Anton Plenikowski ( born November 19, 1899 in Sopot near Gdansk, † March 3, 1971 in Berlin) was a German politician ( KPD / SED).

Life

Plenikowski, son of a working class family, the Präparanden teacher seminar attended in long transit in Gdansk. From 1916 to 1918 he made ​​military service and in 1918 was a member of the Soldiers' Council in Wroclaw. He completed his teacher training from 1919. He worked from 1920 as a teacher.

He was from 1925 to 1928 community representatives in Ließau. In 1926 he joined the SPD and a year later the KPD. From 1926 to 1930 he was a member of the county council Large Werder ( Free City of Danzig ) and 1928-1937 Member of the Danziger people day and there chairman of the KPD Group. From 1929 he served as head of the organization KPD subdistrict Danzig and a full-time party functionary.

In 1937 he emigrated to Sweden. After differences with other members of the emigration line first politically isolated, Plenikowski initiated in the last months of his exile, the KPD party line in Stockholm.

In March 1946, Plenikowski returned to Germany in the Soviet occupation zone and was a member of the SED. From April to October 1946, he headed the country's politics and affairs of the Central Secretariat or of the Central Committee of the SED, then from 1946 to 1954 the Department of State Administration of the Central Committee of the SED. From 1954 he was deputy head, then from May 1956 to November 1963 Director of the Office of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of State and the Council of Ministers of the GDR.

From 1950 to 1967 he was a member of the People's Chamber and 1963-1967 Chairman of its Legal and Constitutional Committee. From 1963 to 1967 he was also Chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Group. From 1954 to 1967 he was a candidate of the Central Committee of the SED. In 1967, he retired at his own request from all functions.

Works

  • The tasks of the Party organizations in the judiciary. Dietz, Berlin 1952.

Awards

  • Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver ( 1955)
  • Banner of Labor (1959 )
  • Medal of Merit of the GDR
  • Karl -Marx- Orden
Gdańsk Communist Party of Germany Workers' council Wrocław Volkstag Order of Karl Marx Integrated Authority File
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