Bruno Fuhrmann

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Bruno Fuhrmann (born January 2, 1907 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † September 25, 1979 in Berlin ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism , a functionary of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the early German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was ousted in 1950 in the course of the Noel Field affair .

Life

Fuhrmann, son of a factory worker, learned the trade of carpenter after elementary school. In 1922 he became a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) and in November 1926 of the KPD. In 1925 he was head of organization, from 1927 political director of the KJVD in East Prussia . At the 8th KJVD Congress in 1927 he was elected a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the KJVD. In 1929/30 he attended the youth school of the Communist Youth International (KJI) in Moscow and was then a KJI instructor in the Netherlands , Austria , Denmark and Sweden . In December 1930 he returned to Germany and became KPD youth secretary in East Prussia. In 1931, at the instigation of Heinz Neumann , he rose to become a member of the office and secretary of the Central Committee of the KJVD in Berlin. From June 1933 he was political director of the KJVD in the Halle-Merseburg district, then in Thuringia .

After the National Socialists came to power and communist activities were banned, Fuhrmann continued the party work in illegality. On June 14, 1933, he was arrested in Erfurt and sentenced by the People's Court to two years in prison on November 22, 1934 for “preparing for high treason” . In 1936 he fled to Czechoslovakia and at the end of 1936 to Switzerland , where he formed a working group of political emigrants on behalf of the party. From 1937 to 1939 Fuhrmann, with the code name Fred , was the KJVD representative in the KPD section management south in Zurich , worked on the illegal newspapers Süddeutsche Informations and Süddeutsche Volksstimme and was a liaison to the KPD group around Wolfgang Langhoff at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. From the end of 1939 he was also an employee of the KPD section leadership Switzerland South. In June 1940 he was arrested for "illegal political activity" and was interned in the Witzwill prison and in the Malvaglia , Gordola and Bassecourt labor camps until his release in April 1941 .

From 1942 Fuhrmann was the organizational leader of the newly formed KPD national leadership in Switzerland. In 1944 he was arrested again. After the end of the Second World War , he fled the Wallisellen camp in June 1945 and came to Berlin illegally with Hans Teubner and Leo Bauer . The Central Committee of the KPD sent Fuhrmann as an instructor in the American and French zones of occupied Germany. After the forced unification of the KPD and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in the Soviet occupation zone and Berlin, Fuhrmann became a member of the SED in 1946. In 1946 he became vice-president of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN) and member of the SED party executive. From October 1947, as successor to Walter Beling , he headed the organizational department of the Central Secretariat (ZS) of the SED and in February 1949 became head of the newly created West Commission of the SED in Berlin.

In the course of the Noel Field affair, which had already led to death sentences with the Slansky trial in Czechoslovakia and the conviction of László Rajk in Hungary, the Central Party Control Commission (ZPKK) of the SED dealt with the western emigrants of the KPD in the GDR in 1950 , including carter. New Germany , the central organ of the SED, announced the results on August 24, 1950. To Fuhrmann, Teubner, Langhoff and Beling, "whose relationships with Field ... were very close, but whose activities only led to indirect support for the class enemy", it was said that they would be "relieved of all functions" and that the investigation would be continued. Fuhrmann had to leave East Berlin and from then on only held subordinate functions. He escaped charge.

In 1951/52 Fuhrmann worked as a cultural director in VEB Baumechanik in Niederneuendorf (Osthavelland district). From June 1954 he was Labor Director at VEB Lokomotivbau-Elektrotechnik in Hennigsdorf . In June 1956, Fuhrmann was tacitly rehabilitated by the ZPKK and his functional ban lifted. In 1959/60 he attended the party college "Karl Marx" of the SED. From 1964 to 1972 Fuhrmann was secretary of the central management of the committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters of the GDR.

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  1. ↑ The party district comprised nine central districts in the administrative district of Merseburg and included the industrial and mining regions around Leuna , Wolfen , Mansfeld and Bitterfeld , see Frank Hirschinger : "Gestapo agents, Trotskyites, traitors". Communist party purges in Saxony-Anhalt 1918-1953 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-525-36903-6 , p. 37.
  2. ↑ Bernd-Rainer Barth, Werner Schweizer: The case of Noel Field: Key figure of the show trials in Eastern Europe , Basisdruck Verlag GmbH, 2005, p. 627
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Kießling : Leistner is Mielke. Shadow of a fake biography . Structure paperback, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-7466-8036-0 , p. 141.
personal data
SURNAME Carter, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anti-fascist resistance fighter and SED functionary in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1979
Place of death Berlin