Albin Tenner

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Albin Tenner (born February 27, 1885 in Rauenstein , † January 20, 1967 in Amsterdam ) was a German communist politician.

He is the father of the physicist and leading member of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) Armin Tenner .

Life

Youth and education

The Tenner, who came from a poor background, had to work as a porcelain painter in addition to school as a child and began an apprenticeship in this craft after finishing primary school. Due to his talent, he was able to attend the teachers' seminar in Hildburghausen, which he successfully completed in 1905; In addition to working as a primary school teacher, he was able to catch up on his Abitur in Sonneberg and begin studying natural sciences in Jena. In 1915 he was drafted into the military and worked as a military interpreter in Ohrdruf during the First World War and later as a material tester for the aircraft factory there and head of the weather service in Gotha.

Revolutionary time, government membership and internal party disputes

Radicalized by the war experience, Tenner joined a soldiers' council in 1918 and joined the USPD . From 1919 to 1920 he was a member of the state parliament and, as a representative of the people, a member of the USPD's state government in the Free State of Gotha , which elected him President of the Free State. After the founding of the state of Thuringia , he was also elected to the local state parliament in 1920, at the end of the year he merged with the left wing of the USPD with the KPD and was appointed district school councilor in Gotha by the Thuringian Education Minister Max Richard Greil ( SPD ) in 1922 . Tenner, who meanwhile belonged to the party and faction leadership of the KPD in Thuringia, joined the short-lived government of the SPD and KPD in October 1923 together with Karl Korsch and Theodor Neubauer - which was removed from office after a few days by an execution of the Reich took over the Ministry of Economics there. Then Tenner became chairman of the parliamentary group of the KPD.

After 1924, Tenner's influence in the KPD declined because he was part of the “right” wing of the party around the leadership of Heinrich Brandler and August Thalheimer , who were deposed in 1924 . After he resigned from the parliamentary group chairmanship in January, the “left” party leadership led by Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow excluded him from the party into which he was initially re-accepted in October of that year. Re-elected to the state parliament in 1926, he worked as a school councilor in Gotha. After the renewed introduction of an ultra-left policy under the leadership of Ernst Thalmann , he was again expelled from the KPD in March 1929. Tenner now joined the KPO around Brandler and Thalheimer and lost his state parliament mandate in the same year. He moved to Birkenwerder , withdrew from public policy, was involved in the training work of the KPO and carried out biological studies. In 1932 he belonged to the minority of the KPO around Jacob Walcher and Paul Frölich , which converted to the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD), where Tenner also concentrated on educational work.

exile

Briefly arrested in 1933 after the NSDAP came to power and imprisoned in the Oranienburg concentration camp , the Tenner, wanted in Thuringia and hated by the SA there, managed to go into hiding in Berlin and to flee to Amsterdam at the end of the year. There he and his wife Elly Janisch-Tenner set up a small business for cosmetics production. Politically, he belonged to the small Dutch group of SAP and had relationships with former members of the disbanded Dutch OSP. These acquaintances led during the German occupation from 1940 to 1945 to participate in the underground movement Gerretsen, which operated an illegal printing company for Tenner equipment and chemicals. The group was mainly involved in looking after Jews in hiding, providing them with forged and reprinted identity cards and ration cards. After the liberation in 1945, Tenner, who did not return to Germany, was able to give up his business, as he received compensation for confiscated property and recognition of his pension claims as a former school councilor in the course of the "reparation".

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