Alfred Oelßner
Alfred Franz Oelßner (born August 30, 1879 in Greiz ; † June 13, 1962 in East Berlin ) was a KPD and SED functionary. From 1950 to 1954 he headed the Central Revision Commission of the SED.
Life
Empire and Weimar Republic
Alfred Oelßner was born as the eldest son in the family of a master bookbinder. He learned his father's profession and joined the SPD in 1902 . In 1903 his son, the future economist and SED functionary Fred Oelßner , was born. From 1910 he worked in the distribution of the party press and as head of a party bookstore, later as a full-time secretary of the SPD in Weißenfels . In the First World War, Oelßner was an arming soldier , then he joined the USPD in 1917 and was active in the council movement. From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the Prussian state assembly . At the end of 1920 he joined the left-wing USPD faction of the VKPD . Initially party secretary for Halle-Merseburg , he became district secretary of the KPD for Silesia and Upper Silesia after the March 1921 action on the police wanted list . In 1924 Oelßner was sentenced to five years in prison and began his sentence in the central prison in Cottbus , but was given an amnesty in 1925 . After his release, Oelßner became chairman of the party arbitration tribunal, in which function he was active in combating and suppressing party opposition. 1928 Reich treasurer of the RFB , 1929–1932 sales manager for working-class culture articles in Berlin.
Time of National Socialism and GDR career
Immediately after Hitler came to power , Alfred Oelßner worked for a short time in illegal party work. After brief arrest in 1933, he withdrew from active resistance and worked as a bookbinder in Berlin from 1936 to 1945. He was a member of the NS mass organizations NSV and DAF .
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After the end of the war, Oelßner rejoined the KPD, was initially district chairman of Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , and from 1945 to 1950 he was the main cashier of the KPD and SED. Elected chairman of the Central Revision Commission of the SED at the 3rd party congress of the SED in July 1950 . Oelßner held this position until his retirement in 1954. As a former city councilor and in view of his services to the German labor movement and to the city of Weißenfels, he was granted honorary citizenship on December 11, 1954. In 1954 he was awarded the Karl Marx Order and the Patriotic Order of Merit and died in East Berlin in 1962. His urn was buried in the memorial of the socialists in the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin-Lichtenberg .
literature
- Stefan Weber: Oelßner, Alfred Franz . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 351-352.
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Oelßner, Alfred Franz (also: Oelssner) . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 , p. 747.
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , pp. 545-546.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Honorary citizen Weißenfels
- ^ New Germany , September 16, 1959, p. 2
- ^ Joachim Hoffmann : Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. A German national cemetery - cultural and historical travel guide . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00959-2 , p. 248.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oelßner, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oelßner, Alfred Franz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German KPD and SED functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greiz |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1962 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |