Erich Bombach

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Erich Bombach (born November 11, 1908 in Berlin ; † February 17, 1985 there ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ) and trade unionist .

Life

Bombach, the son of a bookbinder , completed an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk after completing elementary and advanced school. Then he worked in the profession. In 1925 he joined the trade union, the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) and the KPD. In 1928/1929 he was the political director of the KJVD in Berlin-Neukölln . In 1929/30 he was union chairman in the Berlin-Brandenburg district management, and in 1932 he was responsible for “opposing work” in the central committee of the KJVD.

After the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists in 1933, he continued his political activity “illegally”. In the same year he was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison for "preparing for high treason ". At the end of 1935 he was released from Berlin-Tegel prison. Between 1936 and 1942 he worked as a film copier. In 1942 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in the Penal Battalion 999 . From 1943 to 1947 he was an American and British prisoner of war .

In February 1947 Bombach returned to Germany and became a member of the SED, the FDGB and the Society for German-Soviet Friendship . He was initially an employee, then a department head and finally deputy main department head of the organizational department of the FDGB federal executive board. From October to December 1949 he was first second chairman of the FDGB state board of Brandenburg . In December 1949 he was elected first chairman of the FDGB state executive committee for Brandenburg. He held this position until the dissolution of the states in the GDR in July 1952. Then he was first chairman of the FDGB district board in Potsdam and from 1953 to 1957 first chairman of the FDGB district board in Cottbus . From 1957 to 1960 he was deputy chairman of the central board of IG Metall / Metallurgie. From 1950 to 1960 he was also a member of the FDGB federal executive committee. In 1960 he was relieved of his functions because of alleged “capitulation” and was demoted to secretary of the FDGB district executive in Berlin-Köpenick .

From October 1950 to July 1952 he was Vice President of the Brandenburg State Parliament for the FDGB and was chairman of the Committee on Economics, Transport, Reconstruction and Labor. Then Bombach was a member of the district days of Potsdam and Cottbus .

Bombach was also a member of the SED district leadership in Potsdam until 1953, at times also a candidate or member of the office of the SED district leadership in Potsdam, then from 1953 to 1957 a member of the SED district leadership in Cottbus and there also temporarily a candidate or member of the office.

Bombach died at the age of 76 and was buried in the cemetery for victims of fascism and those persecuted by the Nazi regime at the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery.

family

His wife, Kate Bombach, was just like himself a trade union official. From 1957 to 1961 she was a member of the presidium and secretary for women's work of the FDGB federal executive committee.

Awards

literature

  • Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . 2nd edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 874.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth – Lyr . Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 72.
  • Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52 . Lit, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6321-2 , (also dissertation , Freie Universität Berlin 2001), p. 920.
  • Michele Barricelli, René Mounajed; Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon . Volume 1 [A-B]. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89626-351-X , p. 202.
  • Andreas Herbst : Bombach, Erich . In: Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990) . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of the SED district leadership Berlin-Lichtenberg, Neues Deutschland , March 21, 1985, p. 8.
  2. ↑ Andreas Herbst : Bombach, Käthe . In: Dieter Dowe, Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990) . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .


personal data
SURNAME Bombach, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (KPD, SED) and trade unionists
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1985
Place of death Berlin