Alfred Adolph (politician)

forward Alfred Adolph (born July 30, 1895 as Alfred Adolf in Sommerfeld , † April 27, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German functionary of the KPD and the SED .

Life

Alfred Adolf was born in Sommerfeld in Niederlausitz in 1895 as the son of a cigar maker . After attending elementary school in Weißwasser from 1902 to 1909 , he trained as a locksmith and lathe operator , which he finished in 1912 and was followed by two years of wandering until 1914. From 1915 to 1918 Adolf did his military service.

In 1918 he became a member of the Spartakusbund and the workers' council in Weißwasser. In 1918 he was one of the co-founders of the USPD in Lusatia . In 1920 he joined the KPD . He was fired because of his active role in metal workers' strikes in Lusatia in 1921 and 1922. Adolph became a KPD functionary in Wedding in Berlin in 1922 . From 1923 to 1925 he worked at Siemens in Berlin, where he became a member of the works council in 1924 . From 1926 to 1928 he was again unemployed. From 1928 he worked for the KPD intelligence service and was delegated to the Lenin School in Moscow until 1929 . After his return in 1930 he became head of the KPD sub-districts Berlin-Ost and Berlin-Mitte. From 1932 to 1933 he was secretary for military-political questions in the district leadership of the KPD.

After Hitler came to power in 1933, he fled persecution by the Nazis to Prague and on to the Soviet Union , where he stayed until 1934. In 1935 he returned to Germany “illegally” and worked as an instructor for the KPD in West Germany. In the same year he went to Rotterdam on behalf of the party , where he worked for the International Union of Seamen and Harbor Workers . He was involved in a group entrusted with acts of sabotage on ships. From 1936 he worked in Switzerland as a liaison to Germany. In 1937 he was arrested in Zurich and sentenced to 10 months in prison for political and intelligence work. In 1939 he was expelled to France and interned there. Adolf, who now calls himself Adolph, worked in the KPD leadership in southern France from 1940 and from 1943 for the magazine “Soldat am Mediterranean” and for the Free Germany Movement . In 1943 and 1944 he also worked as a German-speaking speaker at Radio Toulouse .

In 1946 Adolph returned to Germany. In Berlin he joined the SED . From 1946 to 1950 he worked for the tracing service for missing Germans, which he helped to establish. As head of the main information and press department , he was also the publisher of the “search newspaper”. From 1949 Adolph headed the tracing service.

From 1950 he was managing director of DEWAG in Berlin.

In 1957 he was awarded the Bronze Patriotic Order of Merit in recognition of his services .

His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

literature

• Dora Schaul : Resistance. Memories of German anti-fascists. Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1973, 2nd edition ibid. & Röderberg, Frankfurt 1975 (also on Otto Niebergall , Roman Rubinstein , Walter Beling , Gerhard Leo , Werner Schwarze , Luise Kraushaar and others) 3rd edition Berlin, 1985
• Karlheinz Pech : On the side of the Resistance . On the struggle of the movement “Free Germany for the West” in France (1943–45). Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin & Röderberg, Frankfurt 1974; 2. revised & erg. edition only: Berlin 1987
• Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Adolph, Alfred . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• 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 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Germany , October 7, 1957, p. 4.