Bruno Gleißberg

Bruno Gleißberg (born March 4, 1895 in Dresden , † February 17, 1960 in Görlitz ) was a German politician and trade unionist.

Life

Gleißberg was born in Dresden in 1895, his parents were Auguste Jähnigen and Bernhart Gleißberg. After attending the elementary and trade school, he completed an apprenticeship as a butcher. He joined the Central Association of Butchers and began to work as a cashier.

Presumably his use as an infantryman in the First World War and the experiences connected with it led to an increasing politicization. Immediately after returning to the war, he joined the KPD in 1919 and took an active part in party work. Among other things, he was a member of the delegation that got to know the international party work under the leadership of Siegfried Rädel in Italy, was active as a management member of the KPD in Heidenau and was elected for his party in the local city council.

Gleißberg also continued his union involvement after his return to the war. Whether as a metal, auxiliary or machine worker, he always advocated the interests of his colleagues. In 1920 he took part in the active suppression of the Kapp Putsch . Three years later he was one of the initiators of the big strike at the company "Hoesch & Co", which earned him his dismissal without notice. In addition, Gleißberg was also involved as a member of numerous other communist apron organizations , such as B. the Red Front Fighters League , the Red Aid and the International Workers Aid .

Nazi era

The Secret State Police arrested him in 1933 shortly after the National Socialists came to power and imprisoned him in the Hohnstein concentration camp . There the experienced communist functionary met a number of former comrades, including Rudolf Gebauer and Emil Schemmel . He discussed future illegal work with them and stayed in contact with you even after his release. To what extent he was also involved in the illegal activities of the resistance group around Gebauer and Schemmel in this context is not known. After the Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , the National Socialists arrested Gleißberg again as part of the "Gewitter" campaign and imprisoned him again.

After the Second World War

After the Second World War , the Russian headquarters appointed him as Mayor of Heidenau , where he led the reconstruction of the company from then on. It was thanks to his initiative, for example, that "in the town of Heidenau, school lessons could be resumed as the first town in the Pirna district." From 1946 to 1949 Gleißberg belonged to the district leadership of the SED in Dresden. From 1949 he held the office of mayor in Pirna .

In February 1954 he was appointed Lord Mayor of Görlitz . He held the office until his death on February 17, 1960. During his tenure there, Gleissberg succeeded in getting the municipal hospital to become a district hospital, he was at the opening of the rebuilt railway viaduct and the opening of the border crossing point into the neighboring Polish city Zgorzelec was there and was responsible for setting up the zoo . In 1971 the Görlitz Pioneer House on Mühlweg was named after him. In 1974 the Polytechnic Oberschule , which opened on September 1, 1972 in his home town of Heidenau, was given the name Bruno Gleißberg. Today's primary school still bears this name.

literature

• Socialist Unity Party of Germany , district leaderships Pirna and Sebnitz as well as district committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters of the GDR Pirna / Sebnitz (ed.): Chronicle 1933–1945. On the history of the anti-fascist resistance struggle on the territory of the former Pirna Office , Pirna / Sebnitz 1983.
• Socialist Unity Party of Germany , Pirna district leadership, Commission for research into the history of the local labor movement, memorials, memorials, memorials and memorials of the labor movement and the anti-fascist resistance struggle in the Pirna district , 2nd revised edition, Pirna 1984.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ School chronicle of the Gleissberg elementary school Heidenau . Retrieved December 10, 2019 . 
2. ^ SED , Kreisleitung Pirna, Commission for Research into the History of the Local Labor Movement (ed.), Memorials, memorials, memorials and memorials of the labor movement and the anti-fascist resistance struggle in the Pirna district , 2nd revised edition, Pirna 1984, p. 47
3. ↑ Mayor Bruno Gleißberg died 50 years ago . In: Saxon newspaper . February 20, 2010 ( online [accessed December 10, 2019]).
4. ↑ Internet presence of the Gleissberg primary school Heidenau . Retrieved December 10, 2019 .