Caesar Thierfelder

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Caesar Thierfelder (* 1886 ; † 1950 ) was a German trade union official , resistance fighter against National Socialism , prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp , party functionary ( SPD / SED ) and publishing manager .

Life

Thierfelder came from Thuringia and learned a trade in the clothing industry after attending primary school . He later lived in Berlin . He joined the union and during the Weimar Republic became a management member of the clothing workers' association .

After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he was one of the former trade union officials who participated in the illegal resistance against the Nazi regime. Because it is in the work of the Popular Front group of Hermann Brill had operated in 1936 he was arrested and several years ' imprisonment convicted then he was in Buchenwald concentration camp internment . Here he was one of the signatories of the manifesto of democratic socialists .

After the liberation from National Socialism , Thierfelder became involved in the Association of Democratic Socialists (BDS) and in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He became a member of the Thuringian state executive committee of the SPD and through the forced unification of the SPD and KPD a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1946 to 1949 he was managing director of the Thuringian Volksverlag and took over the management of the Thuringian SED asset company Aktiva . After Thierfelder had complained in a letter to Otto Grotewohl about spying and harassment by the SMAD and former KPD members in the party, he was replaced as managing director and retired .

literature

  • Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949. ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7 , p. 568 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Mielke : Trade Union Resistance - Open Questions and Controversies ( PDF file , accessed June 10, 2011).
  2. ^ Jan Foitzik: Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) 1945–1949 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1999, p. 165.
personal data
SURNAME Thierfelder, Caesar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade union and party functionary (SPD / SED)
DATE OF BIRTH 1886
DATE OF DEATH 1950