Major General Sergei Ivanovich Tiulpanov (Russian: Сергей Иванович Тюльпанов; 3 October 1901 – 16 February 1987 See (rus.) ) was a Soviet economist and the director of the Propaganda Administration of the

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which governed eastern

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from 1945–1949. Tiulpanov spoke fluent German. He was a strong supporter of

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and of the

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of eastern Germany. He closely monitored the activities of the newly formed

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, which was to govern the country. Tiulpanov considered himself a hardline

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, and fell from favor as it became clear that

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did not support his and Ulbricht's plans for the rapid establishment of socialism in eastern Germany. Tiulpanov was recalled from his post to

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in 1949 on the basis that he failed to report some of his associates that were convicted of betrayal. From 1950 he was of deputy head of the department of political economy of the

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in Leningrad and then he became head of the department of political economy of the

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. Tiulpanov retired from the military in 1956 and dedicated the rest of his life to academia, first as vice-rector of

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, and from 1957 dean of the department of economics of modern capitalism that he himself had founded. In 1956 he received an honorary doctorate from the Karl Marx Leipzig University. Tiulpanov died in 1987 and was buried at the Serafimovskoye cemetery.

References

*Loth, Wilfried. ''Stalin's Unwanted Child: The Soviet Union, the German Question, and the Founding of the GDR.'' New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. (Translation of

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''Stalins ungeliebtes Kind'', Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 1994)

External links

A report Tiulpanov prepared for Moscow
on the activities of the SED, and the communication requesting permission to dismiss him. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tiulpanov, Sergei Ivanovich Russian politicians Russian people of World War II 1901 births 1987 deaths Soviet major generals Soviet propagandists Herzen University alumni Burials at Serafimovskoe Cemetery Academic staff of Herzen University