Adam Wolfram

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Adam Wolfram (born February 17, 1902 in Dietlas ; † December 7, 1998 ) was a German trade unionist and politician . He was a member of parliament from 1946 to 1950 and President of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt from 1948 to 1950 .

Life

Wolfram attended elementary school, the adult education center, the national economy school and other technical schools, became a miner and went on wanderings through Germany, Czechoslovakia , Yugoslavia and Holland . He was unionized from 1918 and a member of the SPD from 1919 . From 1925 to 1933 he worked as an employee of the miners' association in the central German district of Halle . During the time of National Socialism he worked as a self-employed sales representative. He did illegal resistance work, was arrested several times and monitored by the Gestapo . At the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939 he was arrested again and taken into protective custody by the Gestapo until the spring of 1940 . From 1941 he had to do military service in the Wehrmacht .

After the end of the war he became a member of the SPD again in 1945 and participated in the establishment of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB). From February 1946 to December 1949 he was secretary or second chairman of the FDGB state board of Saxony-Anhalt and from 1946 to 1950 a member of the FDGB federal board. He became a member of the SED in 1946 and was a member of the SED state executive committee of Saxony-Anhalt from 1946 to 1950. In April 1947 he replaced Robert Siewert as a member of the SED parliamentary group in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt and on October 6, 1948 he was elected president of the state parliament to succeed Bruno Böttge . From March 1948 to October 1950 he was a member of the 1st People's Council of the Soviet Zone and the Provisional People's Chamber of the GDR . After the founding of the GDR , he was elected to the Provisional Chamber of the GDR on October 10, 1949 . When the "State People's Committee of Saxony-Anhalt for Unity and Just Peace" was transformed into the "State Committee of the National Front " on January 6, 1950, he became President or 1st Chairman of the State Committee.

When the political pressure of the communists against "social democracy" in the GDR was also directed against Wolfram and he was forced out of his political offices in September 1950, he fled to the Federal Republic in July 1951 . He became a member of the SPD and the DGB again . From 1952 he acted as secretary and from June 1956 to November 1965 as district manager of IG Bergbau und Energie in Aachen (successor to Karl van Berk ). After the reunification in the GDR, Wolfram worked from 1990 as a construction assistant and honorary chairman of the state party council of the SPD Saxony-Anhalt . The Adam-Wolfram-Preis of the SPD regional association Saxony-Anhalt was named after him.

Fonts

  • It was worth it. Life path of a trade unionist , Koblenz 1977.
  • Resistance miners , Berlin Information Center, Stauffenbergstrasse Memorial and Education Center, Berlin 1983.

literature

  • Kurt Schwarze : Handbook of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt , Mitteldeutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Halle (Saale) 1947, p. 288.
  • Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945–1949 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 1061.
  • Andreas Herbst : Wolfram, Adam . 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The members of the regional chamber elected . In: Neues Deutschland , October 11, 1949, p. 1.
  2. ^ Saxony-Anhalt State Committee of the National Front formed . In: Neues Deutschland, January 7, 1950, p. 1.
  3. We in Saxony-Anhalt, No. 03/2012 .