Alfred Hiller

Alfred Oskar Hiller (born August 12, 1903 in Kiel-Gaarden , † October 2, 1934 in Hamburg ) was a German youth functionary and politician ( KPD ). He was chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) and a member of the Prussian state parliament .

Life

Hiller, a shipbuilder by profession, joined the Communist Youth of Germany (KJD) and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In the mid-1920s he was secretary of the KJD in Württemberg , where he belonged to the left wing. At the 9th Reich Congress of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) in Halle (Saale ) in October 1925 , Hiller was elected to the Central Committee of the KJVD and in April 1927 came to the Secretariat of the Central Committee at the 10th Reich Congress in Hamburg. There he was responsible for the “Economic Struggle” department. In April 1927 he married Johanna Hakendahl (1906–1976), who at that time was agitpropleiterin of the KJVD district Wasserkante. Hiller took part in the 5th World Congress of the Communist Youth International (KJI) in Moscow in August / September 1928 and was elected as a candidate for the Executive Committee of the KJI.

After his return from the Soviet Union in 1929, Hiller headed the KJVD district of Berlin-Brandenburg and belonged to the secretariat of the KJVD Central Committee under Kurt Müller . In February 1932 Hiller succeeded Artur Becker as Chairman of the Central Committee of the KJVD. In April 1932 he was elected member of the Prussian state parliament in the Berlin constituency. In the KJVD leadership, Hiller worked closely with Kurt Müller and supported Heinz Neumann and Hermann Remmele against Ernst Thälmann in internal party disputes . Hiller was therefore removed from the leadership of the KJVD in autumn 1932 and, on the instructions of the Central Committee, had to resign from the Prussian state parliament on December 5, 1932.

Fonts

• The KJVD in the struggle to win the majority of the young workers . In: Internationale 15 (1932), pp. 74-85.

literature

• Hiller, Alfred Oskar . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 375.