Adolf Hennecke

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Adolf Hennecke (1949)

Adolf Hennecke (born March 25, 1905 in Meggen , Westphalia , † February 22, 1975 in East Berlin ) was a German FDGB and SED functionary. As a miner, he was named after the Hennecke activist movement in the GDR .

Life

Grave of Adolf and Helene Hennecke in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin

Hennecke was the son of a miner and grew up with his uncle after the death of his parents. After finishing school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1919 to 1922. From 1925 he worked as a miner and in 1926 switched to the Saxon hard coal mining in Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. In 1931 he joined the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition and after the Second World War in 1946 the SPD and became a member of the SED with the forced unification of the SPD and KPD . In 1948 he was elected to the management of the works union and was a member of the competition committee of the Karl Liebknecht plant and on the board of directors of VVB coal . In 1950, Hennecke was delegated to the Freiberg Mining Academy to study .

In October 1950 he was elected to the People's Chamber of the GDR.

Hennecke later became a senior employee of the State Planning Commission of the GDR and was a member of the Central Committee of the SED until his death . He was buried in the "Pergolenweg" grave complex at the Socialist Memorial at the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin-Lichtenberg . The grave is located in Pergolenweg 3.

Services

Poster of the Hennecke activist movement 1948

Adolf Hennecke was after the younger Bergmann Franz Franik had declined to carry out a high-performance layer, fearing the reactions of his colleagues at the "top" disposed special layer selected from the area director to the model of the Soviet miner Alexei Stachanow a activists movement in the Initiate Soviet occupation zone (later GDR ). Hennecke was 43 years old, a member of the SED and had attended a party school. At first he refused, because he feared that his work colleagues might resent him for this action (which also happened in the form of the call to break standards ). But later he agreed to do his heavy duty shift.

Hennecke drove into the Karl Liebknecht shaft in the Lugau-Oelsnitz coalfield and on October 13, 1948, instead of the usual 6.3 cubic meters (Hauer norm), extracted 24.4 cubic meters of coal in a well-prepared shift . He had chosen the mining site the day before. He thus fulfilled the work standard with 387 percent. For this achievement, Hennecke received 1.5 kilograms of fat allowance, three boxes of cigarettes, a bottle of brandy, 50 marks in cash and a bouquet of flowers from the collective. This over- fulfillment of the norms triggered the so-called Hennecke movement. A year later, in 1949, Hennecke was one of the first people to receive the newly established GDR First Class National Prize , which was endowed with 100,000 marks. In 1965 and 1970 he was honored with the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold and in 1964 with the Karl Marx Order .

Hennecke activists

Propaganda poster of the movement (photomontage with installed workers)

October 13th was celebrated in SED historiography as the anniversary of the groundbreaking act of Adolf Hennecke and in the GDR as activists' day.

The first Hennecke activists conference of the FDGB took place on February 4th and 5th, 1949 in East Berlin in the German State Opera (later Metropol Theater in the Admiralspalast ). Among the subjects of the 1200 Hennecke activists from the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany and from Berlin were u. a. Questions of performance wages and the development of the activist movement into a mass movement.

Fonts

  • with Boleslaw Zagala, Gertrud Tzschoppe: The Steiger leads . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1952 (preface).
  • with Herbert Deeg: Activists show the way ... Verlag Die Wirtschaft, Berlin 1948.

See also

literature

  • Annette Leo , Jan Wielgohs:  Hennecke, Adolf . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Hannelore Graff-Hennecke, Helma Nehrlich: I'm a miner, who is more? The life of Adolf Hennecke . Edition Ost, Berlin, 2011. ISBN 978-3-360-01824-3
  • Anne Hartmann, Wolfram Eggeling: Soviet presence in the cultural life of the Soviet zone and early GDR 1945–1953 , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1998, pp. 111–138, ISBN 3-05-003089-5 .
  • Silke Satjukow : Hennecke. Icon of the building generation and the "new" people in the Soviet Zone and GDR , in: Gerhard Paul : The Century of Images. Picture atlas . Volume 1. 1900 to 1949 . Göttingen: V&R, 2009, pp. 768-775

Web links

Commons : Adolf Hennecke  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED : History of the German Workers' Movement , Volume 7, From 1949 to 1955 . Author collective: Walter Ulbricht u. A., page 42 f, Dietz Verlag , Berlin 1966
  2. ^ Adolf Hennecke. In: DDR-Geschichte.de. Retrieved July 18, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Paul (Ed.): The Century of Images 1900 to 1949 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-30011-4 , pp. 770 .
  4. ↑ Of humans and superman. Federal Agency for Civic Education , accessed on July 18, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Short biography. gdr-im-www.de, archived from the original on October 14, 2008 ; Retrieved July 18, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Chronik 1948. Dhm.de, accessed on July 18, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Author collective: Walter Ulbricht u. A .: History of the German labor movement . From 1949 to 1955. Ed .: Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED . tape 7 . Dietz , S. 13, 37 .
  8. ^ Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED : History of the German Workers' Movement , Volume 6, From 1945 to 1949 . Author collective: Walter Ulbricht u. A., Document No. 58, appeal of the Hennecke Activist Conference of the FDGB , page 507 ff, Dietz Verlag , Berlin 1966
personal data
SURNAME Hennecke, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German miner, activist and SED functionary, FDGB functionary, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Meggen
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1975
Place of death Berlin