Adolf Deter

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Adolf Deter on May 17, 1950, giving a speech at the 16th Volkskammer meeting in Berlin (right); Seated on the left is Deputy Prime Minister Walter Ulbricht and on the right, Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl .

Adolf Deter (born June 23, 1900 in German Czarnikau ; † November 14, 1969 in Berlin ) was a German politician of the KPD , for which he was a member of the Prussian state parliament in the Weimar Republic . After his escape from Germany in the Third Reich, he returned after the end of the war and became a functionary of the SED and the FDGB .

Life

Deter was born the son of a worker and after leaving elementary school he hired himself as a warehouse worker from 1914 to 1918. He then trained as a locksmith and joined the transport workers' association. He became a member of the Working Youth in 1917 and the USPD a year later. He completed his military service in 1918 and participated in the November Revolution. From 1918 to 1919 he was in the Republican Army . Then he went to Berlin, where he worked for the Berlin tram for a few years. From 1920 he was in the KPD, for which he took on various activities. In Berlin in 1924 he became chairman of the general works council and head of the KPD cell at the Berlin elevated and underground railway. From 1925 to 1929 he was a district and city councilor for Berlin. From 1928 to 1933 he was a member of the state parliament in Prussia for the KPD . From 1928 he belonged to the so-called Compromisers group within the KPD.

In May 1929, the works council Deter was dismissed from the Berliner Verkehrs AG for violating the works council law.

In 1929 he was secretary of the KPD sub-district in Frankfurt an der Oder and in 1930 district leader of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) in Hamburg, where he was involved in organizing strikes by seafarers and dock workers. On behalf of the KPD, Deter and the NSDAP organized the Berlin traffic strike in 1932 .

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From 1933 he had to work illegally. In May 1933 Deter became a member of the Reich leadership of the revolutionary trade union opposition . In June 1933 he fled to Denmark and worked for the Red Trade Union International (RGI) in Copenhagen until 1934 . In 1934 he was Secretary of the International of Seafarers and Dockers (ISH), initially also in Copenhagen for a short time, and later in Antwerp until 1936. From 1935 to 1938 he was secretary of the ISH based in Paris. In January 1939 he took part in the Bern Conference near Paris and was interned in France between 1939 and 1941. In May 1941 he tried to flee to Mexico by ship, but was stopped by US authorities on the way. After a short imprisonment in the United States, he worked there for German newspapers such as The German American . From 1941 to 1946 he also worked as a lathe operator in New York. He also published on the establishment of the National Committee Free Germany in the USSR. A year after the end of the war, he returned to Germany in 1946 and joined the SED. From 1946 to 1949 he was secretary of the SED state leadership in Greater Berlin, and from 1948 to 1949 also vice chairman. In March 1949 he was also the first chairman of the FDGB in Berlin. He was also a member of the GDR's provisional People's Chamber from 1949 to 1954. From 1950 to 1954 he was a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED . In 1954 he was replaced as a member of the FDGB secretariat. From 1954 to 1962 he was an employee, from 1955 Secretary of the Committee for German Unity. In 1958 he was the SED's top candidate in the election of the House of Representatives in West Berlin. Later he was still head of the Western Commission of the FDGB Federal Association in the 1960s. In 1960 he was honored with the Labor Banner and in 1962 he retired. From 1963 he was a member of the Peace Council of the GDR and from 1964 Vice President of the New Home Society for the care of the German language and culture abroad. He was co-editor of the trade union unit magazine and was awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Medal and the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold in 1965 .

After his death, several institutions in the GDR were named after him, including the FDGB convalescent home in Luisenthal . His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the Memorial of the Socialists in the Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

literature

Web links

Commons : Adolf Deter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ May 2, 1929: Deter released. Due to violation of the Works Council Act. In: Der Abend (late edition of Vorwärts) , May 2, 1929, p. 7, accessed on December 21, 2019.
  2. ^ New Germany , July 7, 1965, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Deter, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH German Czarnikau
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1969
Place of death Berlin