Alfred Drögemüller

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Alfred Drögemüller (* 22. September 1913 in Hamburg , † 8. July 1988 in Berlin ) was a German Communist Party - functionary , resistance fighter against the Nazi regime and the Marxist-leninistischerer historian . In the GDR he taught at the party college "Karl Marx" and the branch of the Franz-Mehring-Institut in Berlin-Biesdorf .

Life

Drögemüller, son of a painter assistant, graduated after attending the elementary school , a business education. In 1928 he became a member of the Socialist Student Union and in 1929 a member of the SAJ . In 1930 he joined the KJVD and the KPD and became a volunteer at the communist Hamburger Volkszeitung . From 1932 he was a full-time KPD functionary.

After the seizure of power of the Nazis he was still illegally worked for the KPD. In May 1934, Drögemüller emigrated to Denmark and worked on the border work in North Schleswig . From September 1937 to March 1939 he stayed in Gothenburg , where he was finally arrested and deported to Denmark. Initially there he was KPD instructor for Kiel , from 1941 he was head of KPD emigration in Denmark and - after the establishment of the "Free Germany" movement in Denmark - editor of the newspaper Deutsche Nachrichten .

In December 1945 Drögemüller returned to Germany. First he became third secretary of the KPD district leadership in Schwerin in the Soviet occupation zone , and from March to June 1946 he attended the party college in Liebenwalde . In July 1946 he moved to the British zone of occupation and became an instructor for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein . From October 1946 he was secretary of the KPD regional leadership in Hamburg. From May 1948 Drögemüller worked for the party executive (PV) of the KPD in Frankfurt am Main , and from September 1950 at the PV in Düsseldorf as editor-in-chief for the journal Wissen und Tat .

In February 1951 Drögemüller was arrested in the GDR and accused of Trotskyism . He remained detained without charge until September 1953, after which he was unofficially rehabilitated. After his release, he was not allowed to return to the Federal Republic, and in later résumés he had to state that he had been "at the disposition of the Central Committee " during the two and a half years in prison . In December 1953, Drögemüller, now a member of the SED , became the editor of the Saxon newspaper in Dresden . From 1955 he worked at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the SED employed from 1957 to 1960 he studied at the Party School "Karl Marx" and received his doctorate there in 1961, Dr. phil. with a dissertation on "The division of Germany by the imperialist Western powers and the German big bourgeoisie and the struggle of the working class and the patriotic forces of West Germany for a democratic and peace-loving Germany (1947 - mid-1949)". He then worked there as a lecturer in the history of the labor movement. From 1970 to 1976 he was a lecturer at the branch of the Franz-Mehring-Institut in Berlin-Biesdorf .

His urn was on the Central Cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in the graves plant for the victims and persecuted by the Nazi regime buried.

In 1990 Drögemüller was finally rehabilitated by the PDS .

Awards

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  • The division of Germany by the imperialist Western powers and the German big bourgeoisie and the struggle of the working class and the patriotic forces of West Germany for a democratic and peace-loving Germany (late 1947 to mid-1949) . IfG at the Central Committee of the SED, Berlin 1961 (dissertation).

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  1. ↑ Lothar Hornbogen: Political Rehabilitation - A Lesson from Our History .
personal data
SURNAME Drögemüller, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party functionary (KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1988
Place of death Berlin