Ditmar Danelius

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Ditmar Danelius (born October 27, 1906 in Deutsch-Wilmersdorf near Berlin; † October 20, 1997 ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism , concentration camp prisoner , fighter in the Resistance and chairman of the Berlin Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN) .

Life

Danelius came from a Berlin working class family . His father was a construction plumber . He grew up in Berlin with his younger brother Gerhard Danelius . After attending elementary school, he learned a commercial profession and worked as a commercial clerk. He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1931 . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, he was arrested. After he was released, he emigrated to the Netherlands and later to France , where he continued his anti-fascist work. From 1936 to 1939 he was a member of the Algerian Communist Party and became a member of its regional leadership in Algiers . In 1939 he was ver liable and sentenced to prison. He managed to escape from prison. After being arrested again, he was sentenced to death , then the sentence was turned into life imprisonment . In 1943 he was released from prison and then held a position in the PCF of Algiers.

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, he returned to the eastern part of Berlin in 1948 and joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). For a time he was first secretary of the SED district leadership in Berlin-Mitte and then an employee of the SED regional leadership in Greater Berlin . He passed on his experiences in the resistance through his participation in historical-political memory work . From 1951 to 1953 he was the chairman of the Greater Berlin State Association of the VVN. From 1960 to 1969 he took on the role of 1st Secretary of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) of the Berlin District Association and was a member of the secretariat of the DSF Central Board.

In 1986 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

literature

  • Elke Reuter, Detlef Hansel: The short life of the VVN from 1947 to 1953: The history of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Soviet Zone and GDR. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-97-4 , p. 566

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 4./5. October 1986, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Danelius, Ditmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist in the Resistance
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH German Wilmersdorf
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1997