Karl Maron

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Karl Maron
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Minister of Interior
In office
1 July 1955 – 14 November 1963
Preceded by Willi Stoph
Succeeded by Friedrich Dickel
Personal details
Born 27 April 1903
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died 2 February 1975 (aged 71)
East Berlin, German Democratic Republic
Nationality German
Political party Socialist Unity Party of Germany

Karl Maron (27 April 1903 – 2 February 1975) was a German politician, who served as the interior minister of East Germany. He also assumed different posts in East Germany's government.

Early life and education

Maron was born in 1903.[1] He was educated in Russia.[2]

Career

Maron was a metal worker.[3] In 1926, he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).[3] During the Nazi regime, he left Germany in 1934 for Denmark and then settled in Russia.[2][3] He returned to Berlin under the protection of a Russian general a few days after the Red Army captured the city in 1945.[2] Immediately after his return he became deputy lord mayor of Berlin.[4] In 1946, he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).[3][5] From 1946 to 1950 he was the chief editor of daily Neues Deutschland, which was founded in 1946 by the SED.[3] He was also the director of Berlin municipality's economy department at the end of the 1940s.[6]

He became the chief of the German people’s police or more commonly Volkspolizei in June 1950 when former chief Kurt Fischer died.[7] In February 1953, he publicly argued "the Volkspolizei can never be neutral or unpolitical."[7] In 1954, he was named as the member of SED's central committee.[3] During his tenure as the chief of Volkspolizei he also assumed the role of deputy interior minister.[8]

He was appointed interior minister on 1 July 1955, replacing Willi Stoph.[1][9] In this position he was promoted in 1962 to Generaloberst. In 1961, he became a member of the working group formed by the Politburo to develop ways to end refugee flow from East Germany.[10] The other members of the group were then security chief Erich Honecker and Stasi chief Erich Mielke.[10] Maron's tenure as interior minister ended on 14 November 1963.[1][11] He was succeeded by Friedrich Dickel as interior minister.[12] From 1958 to 1967 he served as the representative of Volkskammer.[3] In 1964, Maron founded the Institute for Demoscopy (Institut für Meinungsforschung in German) that was a demoscopic research body sponsored by the SED.[13]

Personal life and death

Maron was the step-father of author Monika Maron.[14][15] Karl Maron married her mother in 1955.[16] He died in 1975.[3]

References

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