Wilhelm Kling

Wilhelm Kling ( born February 7, 1902 in Bammental, † November 17, 1973 in Berlin) was a Communist Party functionary and co-workers in the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR.

Life

Kling graduated 1916-1921 training as a merchant, was until 1924 a clerk in Dortmund, and 1928 workers in different construction companies, from 1928 to 1929 to 1933 unemployed and editor of Berlin in the morning.

1922-1924 Kling was a member of the " Society for Protection against anti-Semitism in Germany " and since 1923 in various capacities in the sub-district of Dortmund, later in the subdistrict of Berlin KPD active.

As of March 1933, he worked in the intelligence service of the German Communist Party, was arrested in July 1935, and sentenced in October 1936 in the last public hearing of the People's Court to six years in prison. By 1945, he was among other things in Plötzensee prison, penitentiary Brandenburg -Gorden and in Bayreuth and in the concentration camps Aschendorfermoor, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen in custody.

1945/1946, he joined the Communist Party at SED in Berlin and was a member of the Central Committee of the SED. As Head of Department " officials in government and business ," he was instrumental in the expropriation of "Consolidated and war operations ." 1953-1961, he was Deputy Director of the German Economic Institute, then to 1969 employees of agitation Commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.

Kling was awarded the 1962 Medal Banner of Labor, in 1959 the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and gold in 1965 and 1967, Karl -Marx- Orden.

Works

• Brief history of IG Farben, the United manufacturer of Death, Berlin 1957