Hans Lauter (politician)

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Hans Lauter

Hans Lauter (born December 22, 1914 in Adelsberg ; † October 31, 2012 in Leipzig ) was a German SED functionary and university professor for Marxism-Leninism . During the National Socialist era , he was imprisoned as a communist for more than nine years.

Life

The son of a machine shaper completed an apprenticeship as a glass cutter after leaving school and then worked in the profession.

From 1930 he took over offices in the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD), the youth association of the KPD . In the course of the first wave of persecution by the National Socialists , he was taken into “protective custody” in 1933 and interned in the Sachsenburg concentration camp . After his release he continued his anti-fascist political activity illegally and became head of the KJVD in the Leipzig district . Wanted in a wanted list, he was arrested on May 28, 1935 in Leipzig and on March 28, 1936 by the III. Senate of the People's Court sentenced to ten years in prison for “preparation for high treason ” . He served the sentence in the Waldheim penitentiary and in various moor camps in Emsland . In February 1945 he managed to escape during clean-up work in destroyed Dresden .

In July 1945 Lauter joined the KPD and became secretary for agitation and propaganda of the KPD district leadership in Chemnitz. From April 1946 to October 1947 he was deputy department head of the SED state executive committee in Saxony . After attending the SED party college from October 1947 to March 1949, he worked as secretary of the SED state leadership in Saxony. On the III. At the SED party congress in July 1950, he was elected a member of the SED Central Committee and its secretariat, responsible for culture. In October 1950 he was elected a member of the People's Chamber. In May 1953 the SED removed him from all party positions because, according to the allegation, he had betrayed members of the KJVD to the Gestapo in the Third Reich . On February 17, 1954, at the 44th session of the People's Chamber, the resignation of his People's Chamber mandate was announced. In 1956 he was exonerated from these allegations and rehabilitated. In 1958 he became a member of the district assembly in Leipzig and until 1969 held various functions in the local SED district leadership. In 1968, Lauter, as head of the “Ideological Commission”, signed a plan of action to justify the demolition of the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig, which was only slightly damaged in World War II .

From 1953 to 1959, Hans Lauter was a lecturer at the Franz Mehring Institute at the University of Leipzig . From 1969 he was a lecturer and associate professor at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Technical University of Karl-Marx-Stadt . In 1974 he was appointed full professor there. In the same year he also became chairman of the city ​​committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters . In 1980 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold. In 1989 he was awarded the Star of Friendship of Nations in silver.

After reunification, Hans Lauter became a member of the PDS and sat on its council of elders. From 1990 he was a member of the board of directors of the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists . At the 3rd Federal Congress of the VVN-BdA in May 2008 in Berlin, he was elected honorary chairman together with the concentration camp survivor Esther Bejarano .

Lauter was the second oldest elector in the Federal Assembly when the German Federal President was elected in 2004 .

Private

His son Gerhard Lauter served as an officer in the German People's Police in the GDR.

Fonts

  • The fight against formalism in art and literature, for a progressive German culture, presentation, discussion and resolution by d. 5th conference d. Central Committee d. Socialist Unity Party of Germany from March 15-17 , 1951 , Berlin 1951
  • Studies on the relationship between man and technology in the socialist cultural revolution in the German Democratic Republic, political-ideological issues , Leipzig, Univ., Sect. Marxist.-Leninist. Philosophy / Science Communism, Diss. A, 1974

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Leipziger Volkszeitung from November 10, 2012
  2. ^ List of candidates in Neues Deutschland from February 18, 1950
  3. ^ Berliner Zeitung of February 18, 1954
  4. ↑ Focus 10/2004 Kirchen-Sprenger for PDS
  5. ↑ Focus 11/2004 Biskys Church Striker
  6. ↑ Neues Deutschland, May 2, 1980, p. 4
  7. ^ New Germany, October 5, 1989, p. 4
  8. ^ VVN-BdA Congress
personal data
SURNAME Louder, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelsberg
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 2012
Place of death Leipzig