Albert Sanneck

Albert Sanneck (born January 13, 1901 in Scharfstorf ; † April 11, 1988 in Wismar ) was a KPD functionary and trade unionist.

Life

Born the sixth child of a day laborer's widow, Sanneck initially worked as a farm worker and, after moving to Hamburg in 1921, as a coachman and freight forwarder. A member of the KPD since 1920 , he became a full-time party functionary in 1927, first as an editor of the Hamburger Volkszeitung and then from 1928 as a member of the KPD's waterfront district management. In the same year he was also elected to the Hamburg parliament. In March 1930 he was ousted from the KPD together with his party friends Hans Westermann and Heinrich Stahmer as a supporter of the " Compromisers " current, which was critical of the party leadership around Ernst Thälmann , and as a critic of the RGO policy of his party. He joined the SPD together with Stahmer for which he also exercised his parliamentary mandate until the new elections in 1931. He was expelled from the SPD in September 1931 after he had passed on internal party matters to KPD members.

After the takeover by the NSDAP , he was arrested in September 1933 and a month later to two and a half years prison sentenced. After serving his sentence, he was held in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until August 1937 , and after his release he found a job with the Hamburg mineral oil works .

After the liberation in 1945 Sanneck rejoined the KPD and from 1946 to 1951 he was deputy state chairman of the IG Chemie, Papier, Keramik in Hamburg, after which he worked as a construction worker until his retirement in 1966. He joined the DKP in 1969 and, after his wife died in 1979, moved from Hamburg to the GDR in 1981 , where he was accepted into the SED in his new place of residence, Wismar .

After his death in 1988 Albert Sanneck was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

literature

• Sanneck, Albert . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .