Ernst Lohagen

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Ernst Lohagen's grave in the honor grove of the Leipzig South Cemetery

Ernst Lohagen (born May 12, 1897 in Elberfeld , †  November 2, 1971 in Bad Saarow ) was a German politician ( KPD , SED ).

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Ernst Lohagen was born the son of a weaver. After attending elementary school, he worked as an errand boy from 1909 to 1912, then as a laborer. Since 1911 he was involved in the socialist youth workers. From 1917 he belonged to the Spartakusbund .

After the First World War , Lohagen joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). During the Weimar Republic, he held a number of political offices for his party as a full-time political functionary. In 1919 he was the organizational leader of the Communist Youth Association (KJVD) for Rhineland-Westphalia; In 1920 he was a member of the command of the Red Ruhr Army . From 1924/25 to around 1931 Lohagen was the leading head of the KPD in the Hessen-Waldeck district. From 1926 he belonged to the city council of Kassel and soon afterwards also to the Hessian municipal and provincial parliament . From 1930 to 1932 Lohagen was a member of his party for constituency 19 (Hessen-Nassau) in the Berlin Reichstag . In mid-1931 he was deposed as a functionary in Kassel and immediately removed from all party offices.

During the National Socialist rule, Lohagen was arrested repeatedly and held in concentration camps and prisons . After his first arrest in April 1933, he was taken to the Kassel police prison. He was imprisoned in the Breitenau concentration camp from June 16, 1933 to October 16, 1933 . Then he was sent to the Börgermoor and Esterwegen concentration camps . After a temporary release, he was arrested again on July 23, 1935. On January 19, 1938, Lohagen was sentenced to fifteen years in prison by the People's Court . In April 1945 he was released from the concentration camp. Lohagen's wife Paula Lohagen, who was arrested with him in 1935, perished in Auschwitz in 1944 after a long imprisonment period that included her in the Ziegenhain prison and the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

After the war, Ernst Lohagen belonged again to the KPD and in 1946 became a member of its state executive in Saxony. After the forced unification of the SPD and KPD in the Soviet occupation zone, he was a member of the party executive committee and the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) from April 1946 to February 1952 . From 1948 to 1952 Lohagen was state chairman of the SED in Saxony. From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the state parliament in Saxony . On February 4, 1949 he succeeded Wilhelm Koenen as chairman of the SED parliamentary group in the state parliament. From 1949 to 1954 he was also a member of the People's Chamber ; until 1952 he headed the budget and finance committee there. In 1952 Lohagen was expelled from the Central Committee for "suppressing criticism" and behavior that was damaging to the party and was transferred to the Zwickau-Oelsnitz coal mining district as a scout for three years . Before that, there had been a media campaign against him since December 1951 in the Daily Rundschau and in Neues Deutschland . From January 1953 to September 1955 Lohagen was head of the district finance inspection in Potsdam, then from 1955 to 1958 chairman of the council of the Pritzwalk district .

Lohagen's grave is in the honor grove of the Leipzig South Cemetery.

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SURNAME Lohagen, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (KPD, SED), MdR, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 2nd 1971
Place of death Bad Saarow