Alfred Fleischhacker

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Alfred "Ginger" Fleischhacker (born December 12, 1923 in Merchingen , † June 16, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German journalist in the GDR.

Life

Alfred Fleischhacker grew up in a Jewish family in Merchingen, Saarland, where he attended elementary school and from 1935 to 1938 the Jewish school home in Herrlingen . In 1938 he switched to a Jewish school in Mannheim , which he attended until the November pogroms in 1938 . In July 1939 he left Germany on a Kindertransport to Great Britain . His parents and sister were deported to the Gurs camp in France in October 1942 . While the sister escaped, went into hiding and survived, with the support of the Resistance , his parents were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in August 1942 and gassed there .

Interned in Canada from 1940 to 1941 as an " enemy foreigner ", Fleischhacker worked in the armaments industry in Great Britain until the end of the war , where he was involved in the Free German Youth and in the Unity Theater Movement , a left - wing anti-fascist theater movement that began with the rise of Oswald Opposed Mosley's British Union of Fascists . In August 1947 he returned to Germany. He began to work as a journalist in Berlin's eastern sector . In 1949 he went to the German broadcaster for broadcasting in the GDR as an editor , and later he became editor-in-chief at Berliner Rundfunk . From 1975 to 1989 he was a correspondent for the GDR radio station at the Federal Press Office in Bonn. In September 1989 he retired. He continued to work as a journalist and, as a member of the VVN-BdA and a regular author of its association magazine, was anti-fascist until his death. In 2006 he was one of the supporters of the "Berlin Declaration" of the initiative Schalom5767 - Peace 2006 .

A family tree in his living room indicated the family members who had fallen victim to the mass crimes of the Nazi regime.

Fonts

  • As a GDR correspondent in Bonn. In: Heide Riedel (Hrsg.): The new era moves with us ... 40 years of GDR media. Verlag Vistas, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89158-095-9 
  • as editor: That was our life. Memories and documents on the history of the FDJ in Great Britain 1939–1946. New Life Publishing House , Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-355-01475-3 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: Manuscripts 53, pp. 57–58
  2. ^ Stefan Berger, Norman Laporte: Friendly Enemies. Britain and the GDR. New York / Oxford 2010, p. 48.
  3. Alfred Fleischhacker is dead . in: antifa. VVN-BdA magazine for anti-fascist politics and culture, issue 7/2010
  4. ^ Wording of the declaration
  5. ^ Stefan Berger, Norman Laporte: Friendly Enemies. Britain and the GDR. New York / Oxford, p. 49.