Dieter Rieke

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Dieter Rieke (born June 21, 1925 in Osnabrück ; † September 4, 2009 in Rüsselsheim ) was a German journalist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Dieter Rieke was born in Osnabrück in 1925 as the son of a civil servant. In 1942 his family moved to Gardelegen , where he graduated from high school in 1943. Then Rieke was called up for the Reich Labor Service and later for the Wehrmacht . In February 1944 he took part in the Battle of Monte Cassino . In June 1944, he got on the Western Front in American captivity , but he managed to escape from. At malaria ill, experienced Rieke the end of the war in Gardelegen without again in captivity to fall. In June 1945 he joined the newly founded SPD local group and from then on worked in the district administration. From September 1945 he was head of the Gardelegen district news office.

Because he was in contact with the east office of the SPD in Hanover even after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD into the SED , Rieke was arrested on May 4, 1948 in his office by the Soviet NKVD and taken to the cellar prison " Roter Ochse " in Halle . On October 2, 1948, he was transferred to the NKVD prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen . Shortly before his conviction on April 14, 1949, he was taken to the MFG prison on Alfredstrasse in Berlin-Lichtenberg . A Soviet military tribunal sentenced him to 25 years of forced labor and transferred him to the “ Yellow Misery ” in Bautzen. There he took part in a revolt by prisoners in March 1950 and then spent four years in solitary confinement. Rieke was a co-author of the prisoners' open letter, which Herbert Wehner read out at the SPD party conference in 1950. After his early release on December 21, 1956 due to international protests, Rieke fled with his family to the West on January 21, 1957 , where he was again involved in the SPD.

He had been a journalist for “ Vorwärts ” in Bonn since 1956 . As chairman of the working group of former political prisoners , he continued to campaign for the interests of persecuted social democrats . In 1967 he took over the post of press spokesman for the sports and transport office and press office manager for the city of Rüsselsheim. As part of his journalistic work for Vorwärts-Verlag , he repeatedly addressed his experiences from the Soviet Zone / GDR and was therefore " operationally processed " by the GDR State Security in the Federal Republic until 1989 . In 1999 his autobiography "Beloved Life" was published.

Works

  • Dieter Rieke (Ed.): Social Democrats in the fight against the red dictatorship under Stalin and Ulbricht. Friedrich Ebert Foundation , Bonn 1990.
  • Dieter Rieke (ed.): Social democrats as victims in the fight against the red dictatorship. Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn 1994.
  • Dieter Rieke: Beloved Life: Experienced and endured between the millstones of recent German history. Berlin 1999.

literature

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Dieter Rieke: The confession. In: Hubertus Knabe (Ed.): Captured in Hohenschönhausen / Stasi prisoners report. List Taschenbuch, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-548-60741-2 , p. 96f.

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personal data
SURNAME Rieke, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 2009
Place of death Ruesselsheim