Adolf Färber

Adolf Färber (born November 11, 1912 in Berlin-Charlottenburg , † November 27, 1987 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was a German SED functionary. Among other things, he was first secretary of the SED district leadership in Suhl and a member of the Thuringian state parliament .

Life

He was born in a working-class family, his parents died prematurely. At the beginning of the 1920s he came to foster parents as part of the children's country deportation from Berlin to Stadtroda . From 1919 to 1927 he attended elementary school there and became a member of the SAJ and in 1928 a member of the SPD , as well as youth leader in the " Jungbanner ". From 1927 to 1930 he did an apprenticeship as a painter in Stadtroda and in 1930 worked as a painter's assistant in Lobeda . In 1933 he went to the Reich Labor Service of the Reichsbanner in Nackenheim near Mainz . In 1933/34 he worked as a painter's assistant in Jena , after which he was unemployed again. During this time there was a temporary, inactive membership in the SA . From 1935 to 1942 he worked as a painter at Carl Zeiss Jena .

In 1935 he married and in 1937 his daughter Ingrid was born, in 1944 his son Wolfhard. From 1942 to 1945 he was a medical sergeant in the Artillery Regiment 340 of the Wehrmacht , then in 1945 briefly in British captivity in Styria and American captivity in Gießen . On June 27, 1945 he was released from American captivity. He became a member of the SPD again and with the forced unification of the SPD and KPD in 1946 a member of the SED .

In 1945/46 he was again a painter at Carl-Zeiss Jena. In 1946/47 he became a political employee of the SED district committee in Jena and graduated from the Bad Berka state party school from January to April 1948 , so that in 1948/49 he was elected first secretary of the SED district committee in Jena. From 1949 to 1952 he was an employee or department head and member of the SED regional leadership in Thuringia , from 1949 to 1952 he was a member of the secretariat of the SED regional leadership in Thuringia.

From November 27, 1951 to July 25, 1952 he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament.

From August 15, 1952 to August 19, 1954, then first secretary of the SED district leadership in Suhl, temporarily also chairman of the district committee of the National Front and member of the Suhl district assembly. In April 1954 the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED recommended Färber to the Politburo for a leading position in the apparatus of the Central Committee (Central Committee ). In September 1954 he began studying at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow .

In January 1955, the suspicion of Färber's SA membership was confirmed, which led to his recall from the party college in Moscow. On February 8, 1955, he was one of the Central Party Control Commission proposed party penalty , in the form of a "reprimand" by the Politburo Central Committee of the SED for "deceiving the party about his past" (1933/1934 12 months SA Member) in this Connection determination of the Politburo no longer to entrust it with leading party functions.

Subsequently, Färber was Labor Director (executive manager) at VEB Farbenfabrik Wolfen ; from 1965 to 1977 he carried out a similar activity in the VEB Fettchemie Karl-Marx-Stadt .

source

• The minutes of the secretariat of the SED district leadership in Suhl. From the founding of the Suhl district in the summer of 1952 to June 17, 1953. Edited by Norbert Moczarski (publication by the Thuringian State Archives Meiningen]; Volume 8). Weimar 2002. 1061 pages. ISBN 3-7400-1162-9 , p. 2.

literature

• Short biography for:  Färber, Adolf . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .