Artur Mannbar

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Artur Mannbar (born July 18, 1913 in Landsweiler-Reden ; † December 30, 2002 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ), resistance fighter against the Nazi regime and journalist .

Life

Artur Mannbar grew up in a family of miners . His parents were members of the KPD. After completing his vocational training, he worked as a commercial clerk. In 1929 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD). From 1933 to 1935 he was an employee and employee in the political editorship of the Arbeiter-Zeitung in Saarbrücken , the KPD state organ in Saarland. In 1934 he became a member of the KPD.

After the voters voted for the unification of the Saar region with Germany in the referendum on January 13, 1935 , Mannbar emigrated to France in 1935 . He worked there for the Red Aid . In August 1935, by party decision, he emigrated to the USSR via Sweden and Finland and attended the International Lenin School in Moscow from 1935 to 1937 under the code name "Werner Weirich" . In the spring of 1938 he went via Stockholm to Copenhagen , where he again worked for the Red Aid and for the Committee for Humanitarian Work . As an instructor of the KPD section leadership north (together with Walter Weidauer and Waldemar Vesper ) he made several illegal trips to Hamburg . He was arrested by the Danish police on May 25, 1940 and extradited to the Gestapo in June . On September 3, 1942, he was sentenced to life in prison by the “ People's Court ” and taken to the Brandenburg-Görden prison.

After his liberation in 1945, he was head of the news department and commentator at Berliner Rundfunk . From 1947 he headed the domestic policy department at the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk in Leipzig . He then moved to the ADN news agency , where he worked in various functions. First he was deputy head of the ADN branch in Leipzig, from 1957 head of the main international department and from 1964 editor-in-chief for West German issues. From 1971 on he was deputy general director of ADN and member of the editorial committee of the Neue Deutsche Presse . From 1977 he was a research assistant at ADN in Berlin .

Awards

Fonts

  • Memories of "then" . In: Neue Deutsche Presse , 9th year (2/1956), pp. 16-17.
  • We are the new "masters". Highlights from the first days of my radio work . In: Manfred Scholz (ed.): Memories of socialist radio pioneers . Volume 1. State Committee for Broadcasting, Berlin 1975, pp. 27–31.
  • (together with Max Frenzel and Wilhelm Thiele): Broken fetters. A report on the anti-fascist resistance and the history of the illegal party organization of the KPD in the Brandenburg-Goerden prison from 1933 to 1945 . Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1975.

literature

  • Klaus-Michael Mallmann , Gerhard Paul : The splintered no. Saarlanders against Hitler . Ed .: Hans-Walter Herrmann (=  resistance and refusal in Saarland 1935–1945 . Volume 1 ). Dietz , Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-8012-5010-5 , p. 165-170 .
  • Memory and encounter. Commemoration in the state of Brandenburg on the 50th anniversary of the liberation . Published by the Ministry for Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg. Potsdam 1995, p. 114f.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 510.
  • Michael F. Scholz: Would you like some Scandinavian experience? Post-exile and remigration - the former KPD emigrants in Scandinavia and their further fate in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, p. 362.
  • Christoph Classen: Fascism and Antifascism. The National Socialist Past on East German Radio (1945–1953) . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, passim.
  • Mannbar, Artur . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artur Mannbar can occasionally also be found as Arthur Mannbar in secondary literature.
  2. ^ New Germany , April 30th / April 1st. May 1983, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Mannbar, Artur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mannbar, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD / SED)
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsweiler speeches
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2002
Place of death Berlin