Willi Jahnke
Willi Jahnke (born August 29, 1906 in Rixdorf ; † January 1, 1992 ) was a German politician ( SED ), trade unionist and resistance fighter against National Socialism . He was the district mayor of Berlin-Lichtenberg and Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg as well as the first deputy to the Minister for Health Care of the GDR .
Life
Jahnke, the son of a construction worker , attended elementary school and, as a special needs student , high school up to the lower secondary school . After completing a commercial apprenticeship , he worked as an employee at " Allianz Versicherung ", among others . Organized in a trade union since 1922 , he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1926 . In 1932 Jahnke was dismissed as a “red” works council, and from 1932 to 1934 he was a member of the Reich leadership of the revolutionary trade union opposition .
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Jahnke took part in the resistance against the Nazi regime. He was arrested on January 29, 1934 and sentenced in April 1934 to three and a half years in prison by the Berlin Court of Appeal for “preparing for high treason ” . He spent his imprisonment in the Brandenburg penitentiary and in the Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald concentration camps .
When Buchenwald was supposed to be rebuilt in July 1937, the illegal camp management decided that Jahnke, Walter Husemann and Willi Mohr took the first transport from Sachsenhausen to Buchenwald. This was to ensure that the most important administrative functions in the new camp, if they were occupied by prisoners, fell into the hands of an illegal camp management to be rebuilt.
After his release from the Buchenwald concentration camp on August 29, 1938, Jahnke initially worked as a construction worker and later again as a commercial clerk. In December 1939, Jahnke was arrested again and held at the Berlin police headquarters for four weeks. On February 3, 1943 Jahnke was pressed to the penalty battalion 999 and deployed in Greece and Egypt . Jahnke fell in 1945 in Egypt in British captivity .
On February 11, 1947, he returned to Germany and became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) as well as an employee of the federal board of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB). In 1949/50 he was deputy chairman of the Berlin Insurance Company (social security). 1950/51 he studied at the party college "Karl Marx" of the SED. He was then from 1951 to 1955 Managing Director of the Council of the Social Insurance Institution in Berlin (East).
From 1955 to 1959 Jahnke was mayor and chairman of the council of the Berlin-Lichtenberg district . From 1959 to 1964 he acted as State Secretary and First Deputy to the Minister for Health in the GDR and was temporarily a member of the Presidium of the FDGB Federal Executive. From February 1964 to 1969 he was again district mayor, this time of the Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg district.
From 1972 to 1981 he acted as chairman of the Berlin district committee of people's solidarity .
Awards
- Karl Marx Order (1981)
literature
- Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 162.
- Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Part II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 144.
- Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 157.
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 354.
- Andreas Herbst: Jahnke, Willi. In: Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990). Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter A. Schmidt: So that Germany live. A source work on the German anti-fascist resistance struggle 1933–1945 . Kongreß-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 529.
Oskar Ziethen (1907–1921) | Otto John (1921–1925) | Alfred Siggel (1926–1933) | Herbert Volz (1933–1935) | Fritz Behaghel (1935–1938) | Karl Dorsch (1938–1945) | Franz Stimming (1945) | Günter Riesebrodt (1945–1946) | Helmut Schwenn (1946–1947) | Wilhelm Pomezny (1947–1948) | Richard Schalkowski (1948–1950) | Horst Hilbert (1951–1954) | Willi Jahnke (1955–1959) | Franz Bachmann (1959–1962) | Kurt Schumann (1963–1965) | Horst Hilbert (1965–1967) | Willi Betsch (1967–1970) | Heinz Müller (1970–1976) | Günter Milke (1976–1990) | Peter Hlavaty (1990) | Christian Kind (1990–1992) | Gottfried Mucha (1992–1995) | Wolfram Friedersdorff (1995–2000)
Since January 1, 2001, the Lichtenberg district has been part of the new Lichtenberg district .
Paul John (1921-1925) | Merry (come) (1925–1926) | Otto Ostrowski (1926–1933) | Arnold Krüger (1933–1934) | Karl Bombach (1934–1945) | Gustav Degner (1945–1946) | Ella Kay (1946-1947) | Kurt Exner (1948) | Richard Döling (1948–1949) | Robert Hensel (1949–1953) | Änne Saefkow (1953–1956) | Horst Hilbert (1956–1964) | Willi Jahnke (1964–1968) | Harry Gnilka (1968–1989) | Wolfgang Schulze (1989–1990) | Manfred Dennert (1990–1995) | Reinhard Kraetzer (1996-2000)
Since January 1, 2001, the Prenzlauer Berg district has been part of the new Pankow district .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jahnke, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politicians (KPD / SED), trade unionists (RGO / FDGB) and resistance fighters |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rixdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1992 |