SED BRANDENBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004400050002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 27, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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ii AGENCY -- REPORT
CENTRAL I T LLIGENCE~
INFORMATION FIE-PORT CD NO
COUNTRY Germany (Rnnssian Zone)
SUBJECT 3LD Brandenburg
PLACE
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DATE OF
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REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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1., The work of the Kader-Abteilung of the SED Landesverband
1.;r?andert'burg has been coming in for criticism on the score of un-
systematic performance. line with the policy of embarking
on a planned strengthening of the functionary body, a renewed
check of the personal and political background of all functionaries
w rill be undertaken, to be completed not later than April 1950. SED
m, tubers occupying official positions In the various land ministries
will be investigated by the Llinistry of the Interior. All function-
aries of the Landesverband have to submit a curriculum vitae once a
year, On the basis of the results of tiie investigations and the
personality assessments (Karakteristiken) requested of the party
member's superior, the Fader abteilung will map out a plan which is
to govern the professional advancement of the functionary in the
Party.
2. Charlotte Eppinger was elected 2nd secretary- of, the SBID 50X1-HUM
Brandenburg" Landesverband at a delegates" conference 2.-4
resign his position as 2nd secretary e has re- 50X1-HUM
a neo his mesh eaship in the Vorstand) a Originally, Erwin Dossow
had been picked by the Party to fill this position,. In-
he was appointed head of the Agricultural
SEC?ti.on 50X1-HUM
stea owever
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of the Landesverband and his nomination was tiithdravtn0 Next it was
decided to put up (fnu) Kieling, the chief of the vJork and Social
tdelfare Section of the Landesverband? when he was introduced to
the delegates, questions from the floor disclosed that he had been
active in Party politics only since 1945. Prior to 1945 his con-
tact with r-jorkers'1 parties had been slim. His wife, fug?ther proi&-
i_ng revealed, had been a Party candidate for only 8 weeks. n
answering questions, Kieling committed such heresies as using the
expression "Umbruch 1945f1 and relating that he had been taken
prisoner by "Polish comrades" in 1945 although he must have known
that this term could not possibly apply to members of the Anders
Army. It was also held against him that he had been a non-
commissioned officer. Although he had attended the Partjr school,
his record as a functionary show, evidence of careerist tenden-
cies. at this point the secretariat decided that it would be
too risky to out Kieling" s nomination. to the vote, therefore with-
drew it, and since no alternate nomination had been submitted,
pulled Eppinger" s name out of a ha.t.. *
CLASSIFICATION
NAVY
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This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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3. Several section chiefs of the Landesverband are on the
way outsi among them Erwin Hintze (in charge of Abteilung Komnunal-
coursQ at the
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politik) who has been selected to atten
Karl =Aarx Hochschul (in charge of Abteilung
Stantsyerwaltune). 50X1-HUM
4. In the course of December 1949 a sizeable number of a.ntifa
graduates returned from the USSR. In this connection mention was
made of Camp 2041 as the graduating center from which they had been
turned out o The Landesverband considered this shipment as opening
tip an urgently needed reservoir from which to replenish its 50X1-HUM
functionary corps.
the mere r act oz tine a.r Liav sus
graduated from an &nti a school s ould not be considered as implying
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100% reliability. By way of illustrating 1
in a a se- suitcase a cache of notes on 50X1-HUM
to have concea ea
which he had listed the names of all graduates, instructors, and.
Soviet officers in charge of the camp
The Geseilschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultfit of Leipzig
University has turned out its first crop of graduates. From a few
isolated instances it could be inferred that the Gewefak has not
as yet established itself among leading Party functionaries as
necessarily on a par with party schools. A graduate, though re-
commended to Minister of Education Rucker, obtained only lukewarm
support on the part of the Landesverband in his quest for a o- 50X1-HUM
that ministry. Had he been a Karl Marx to
all. doors would have been open to him.
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The title of the lecture described in she foregoing para-
graph had originally been "Our fight against Trotzkyisms" Subse-
quently, however, the use oi' the word Trotzkyism was banned on the
grounds that its use as well as that of the word Titoism could be
construed as an implied admission that there exist outside the
framework of the Communist doctrine deviating ideologies. It
should be clearly understood, however, that all deviations from
the Party line automatically o ac in the 50X1-HUM
camp of imperiali.smo this was
not a r ivate notion r e i-anaesver an leadership,
but it expressed views held by the highest leadership of the 50X1-HUM
paw
Comment:
had-been previou
should be filled
an SE D member no oe ._ong ng to the old guard,
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