Alfred Dellheim

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Alfred (Fred) Dellheim (born May 17, 1924 in Mutterstadt ; † October 9, 2003 in Berlin ) was a German economic functionary and SED functionary in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1963 to 1990 he was director of the VEB Berliner Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik in Berlin-Marzahn . In 2002/03 he was chairman of the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA).

Life

Gravestone for Alfred Dellheim in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery

Dellheim was born into a Jewish family as the son of a leather worker. 1934–1938 he attended high school . After the takeover of the Nazis son was Jewish parents Alfred Dellheim victims of racist persecution and had to because of the Nuremberg Laws leave school. In January 1939 he was by his parents with a Kindertransport to emigrate to Britain sent. Most of Dellheim's family, all first-degree relatives, were later murdered in the Holocaust . In 1940 he was interned in England as an " enemy alien " and held in Canada until 1942 . After returning to Great Britain, he became a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ). At the end of 1943 Dellheim volunteered as a soldier in the British Armed Forces and fought in World War II until 1945 . It was used on the Normandy landings in June 1944 and in the fighting up until the liberation of Germany in 1945. In 1944 he was accepted into the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

After the end of the war, Dellheim initially worked as an interpreter for the British military government in Germany, but was then transferred as a "red soldier". After his discharge from military service in 1947 he became first secretary of the district management of the FDJ in the Niederrhein district in Herne , and in 1949 of the state management of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf . In 1950 he took part in a course at the FDJ youth college on Lake Bogensee . In October 1951 Dellheim moved to the GDR on behalf of “the party”. He became a member of the SED and had to fight for years for recognition of his membership in the KPD.

From 1951 to 1953 Dellheim was a clerk, later labor director and from 1953 to 1958 plant manager of the VEB Fritz-Heckert-Werk in Karl-Marx-Stadt . From 1958 to 1961 he was the main director of the superordinate VVB machine tools and tools in Karl-Marx-Stadt. After studying at the Technical University of Dresden , which he graduated with a degree in economics, Dellheim first became plant director of VEB Maschinenbau “7. October “ , then the Berlin machine tool factory (BWF) in Berlin-Marzahn. Both companies later belonged to the VEB machine tool combine "7. October " . In 1990 Dellheim retired from working life.

From 1958 to 1960 Dellheim was a candidate for the SED district leadership in Karl-Marx-Stadt and from 1964 to 1967 a member of the SED district leadership in Berlin.

After German reunification , Dellheim was chairman of the interest group of those persecuted by the Nazi regime (IVVdN) from 1992 to 2003 and from October 2002 chairman of the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA). The International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) elected him as one of its vice-presidents.

Dellheim was buried on October 29, 2003 in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , September 6, 1949
  2. ^ Obituary of the DKP , In: Our Time , October 24, 2003
  3. ^ New Germany , October 18, 2003
  4. Berliner Zeitung , February 19, 1974
  5. ^ New Germany , October 4, 1977
  6. ^ New Germany , October 5, 1983