- Wilhelm Adam (politician)
Infobox Military Person
name=Wilhelm Adam
lived=birth date|1893|3|28|df=y — death date and age|1978|11|24|1893|3|28|df=y
placeofbirth=Eichen
placeofdeath=Dresden
caption=
nickname=
allegiance=flagicon|German EmpireGerman Empire (to 1918)
flagicon|Nazi GermanyNazi Germany (to 1945)
flagicon|East GermanyEast Germany
branch=Heer
serviceyears=1914-1918 (Reichswehr)
1934-1945 (Wehrmacht)
1952-1958 (NVA)
rank=Oberstleutnant (Wehrmacht)Generalmajor (NVA)
commands=
unit=XXIII Army Corps
battles=World War I World War II
awards="Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross "
laterwork=politician Wilhelm Adam (born
28 March 1893 inEichen nearHanau ; died24 November 1978 inDresden ) was a Germanpolitician .Life
Adam's father was a farmer. From 1908 to 1913 he went to the teaching seminary at
Schüchtern . Afterwards, he did hismilitary service until 1918. From 1919 to 1929, Adam was working as a senior vocational school teacher at the army's vocational school inLangenselbold ,Hesse , and from 1929 to 1934 inWeimar ,Thuringia .Alongside these duties, Adam also studied from 1922 to 1924 at the
university inFrankfurt am Main and completed the examination for middle school teachers in 1927. In 1919 he became a member of the Langenselbold Military Association and in 1920 of the Young Germans' Order. In 1923, Adam joined theNazi Party and was involved that same year in theBeer Hall Putsch . In 1926, Adam left the Nazis and joined theGerman People's Party (DVP), with whom he stayed until 1929.In 1933 he became a member of the
Stahlhelm and an SAOberscharführer . He worked at the Unit for Worldview Schooling with the Staff of Standard 94 in Weimar. After being transferred to the SA reserves in 1933 came Adam's reactivation in 1934 at the rank ofcaptain , as well as a promotion tomajor once he had finished a course at military school in 1937. Thereafter, until 1939, Adam worked as company chief and a teacher at the infantry school inDöberitz ,Saxony . In 1939 he became an adjutant in the XXIII Army Corps, and in 1941,Friedrich Paulus 's adjutant. On31 January 1943 Adam found himself a prisoner of theSoviet Union at Stalingrad. While aprisoner of war , he went to the Central Antifa ("ie" Anti-Fascist) School atKrasnogorsk and was a member of theNational Committee Free Germany . He was also sentenced to death by a German court "in absentia ".In 1948, Adam returned to Germany. He was among the co-founders of the National Democratic Party of Germany, an East German political party that acted as an organisation for former members of the NSDAP and the Wehrmacht. From 1948 to 1949 he worked as a consultant for the Saxony state government. From 1950 to 1952 he was Saxony's finance minister and from 1949 to 1963 a member of
East Germany 's "Volkskammer ".From 1952, Adam also worked for the "Kasernierte Volkspolizei" ("Barracked People's Police", a military police force, KVP) with the rank of
colonel . From 1953 to 1956 he was commander at the KVP – and later NVA (National People's Army) – Officers' College. In 1958, Adam was sent into retirement. He kept on working, though, for the Labour Community of Former Officers. In 1968 he was decorated with the Banner of Work, and on the occasion of the twenty-eighth anniversary of East Germany's founding on7 October 1977 , he was appointedmajor general , retired.On
24 November 1978 Adam died in Dresden.Awards
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Iron Cross 2nd and 1st Class
*Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (17 December 1942)Literature
* "Der schwere Entschluss" - Biography (Berlin 1965)
See also
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Ex-Nazi sExternal links
* [http://www.das-ritterkreuz.de/index_search_db.php4?modul=search_result_det&wert1=12&searchword=Adam Wilhelm Adam @ das-ritterkreuz.de]
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