Alfred Fleischhacker
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
- Stefan Berger , Norman Laporte: Friendly Enemies. Britain and the GDR. 1949–1990, New York / Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-1-84545-697-9 .
- Anthony Grenville (Ed.): Refugees from the Third Reich in Britain. Amsterdam / New York 2002
- Karin Hartewig: Back. The history of the Jewish communists in the GDR. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-412-02800-2 .
- Walter Laqueur : Born in Germany. The exodus of the Jewish youth after 1933. Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-549-07122-1 .
- Michael Lemke: Confrontation and Competition. Science, technology and culture in the divided everyday life of Berlin (1948–1973). Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-85-7 .
- Irmela von der Lühe , Axel Schildt , Stefanie Schüler-Springorum : "We weren't really at home in Germany either". Jewish remigration after 1945. Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0312-6 .
- Walter Vorwerk: In the wind tunnel. Episodes from the life of a contemporary witness. Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-7392-8329-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: Manuscripts 53, pp. 57–58
- ^ Stefan Berger, Norman Laporte: Friendly Enemies. Britain and the GDR. New York / Oxford 2010, p. 48.
- ↑ Alfred Fleischhacker is dead . in: antifa. VVN-BdA magazine for anti-fascist politics and culture, issue 7/2010
- ^ Wording of the declaration
- ^ Stefan Berger, Norman Laporte: Friendly Enemies. Britain and the GDR. New York / Oxford, p. 49.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fleischhacker, Alfred |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fleischhacker, Ginger (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and correspondent for the GDR radio in Bonn |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1923 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Merchingen |
DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 2010 |
Place of death | Berlin |