Erich Auer (resistance fighter)

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Erich Auer (born April 26, 1902 in Hesserode near Nordhausen , † June 1, 1978 ) was a German communist, trade unionist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

The son of a carpenter completed an apprenticeship as a printer after finishing elementary school. In 1916 he became a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth . In May 1916 he was a participant in the Easter conference of the opposition workers' youth, where he met Karl Liebknecht, among others . In 1918 he joined the Free Socialist Youth , which in 1920 became the KJVD . In April 1920 he also became a member of the KPD . From 1923 to 1925 Auer was head of the KJVD district management for Thuringia . In 1923 he was elected to the Central Committee at the KJVD Reich Congress. From 1925 to the beginning of 1928 he was the organization leader of the KJVD Central Committee. As a KJVD representative, he was a consultant for the Executive Committee of the Communist Youth International (KJI) in Moscow until the end of 1928 .

Auer married Judith Vallentin in 1926 and his daughter Ruth was born in 1929. From 1929 Auer worked in the trade union department of the Central Committee of the KPD in Berlin. Until 1932 he was also a member of the Reich Committee of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) and its agitprop secretary . At the end of 1932 he became the union editor of the KPD newspaper Ruhr-Echo in Essen.

After the National Socialists seized power and the KPD was restructured for underground struggle , Auer became a ZK instructor in 1933, first for the Danzig / East Prussia region and then for the Ruhr area . In March 1934 Auer was arrested in Berlin. He was sentenced to one and a half years in prison on July 31, 1934. After his release from prison he was employed as a printer in the German Central Printing House. In 1937 he was arrested again, but released after three months. In 1939 he divorced his wife Judith.

On March 1, 1944, he was drafted into the 999 Penal Battalion . However, he was demobilized again because of a serious illness.

After the liberation from National Socialism in 1945/46, Auer was deputy mayor in Berlin-Bohnsdorf . From 1946 to 1949 he was district councilor for general administration and social affairs in the Berlin district of Treptow .

In 1950 he was accused of having agreed to the Gestapo in 1941 to act as an informant for them and to write “political reports”. Thereupon he was released from his political functions in Berlin and sent to VEG Groß-Lüsewitz in the provinces as cultural director . After that he was manager of the Institute for Plant Breeding of the GDR Academy of Agricultural Sciences until 1967 . From 1952 Auer was a member of the District Secretariat of the FDGB Science Union in Rostock . He last lived as a party veteran in Groß Lüsewitz and was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in December 1974 .

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  1. ↑ Cf. Stefan Heinz : Moscow's mercenaries? The “Unified Association of Metal Workers in Berlin”: Development and failure of a communist union . Hamburg 2010, p. 277.
  2. ^ New Germany of December 10, 1974
personal data
SURNAME Auer, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Hesserode (Nordhausen)
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1978