Erich Hanke (politician)

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Erich Hanke (born January 13, 1911 in Petershagen near Berlin ; † April 10, 2005 in Berlin-Rahnsdorf ) was a German resistance fighter and Marxist economist.

Life

Hanke came from a working class family; his father worked as a locksmith. He himself completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and worked in this profession until 1933. From 1927 Hanke was in the workers' sport movement and he continued his education at an evening technical school. From 1928 Hanke was a trade unionist and in 1930 he became a member of the KPD.

From 1933 Hanke did illegal political work in Berlin in the resistance against fascism: in 1933 he was temporarily the political head of the KPD sub-district in Strausberg , 1933/34 KPD sub-district head for Berlin-Pankow , 1934 political head of the KPD sub-district Nordring, then technical director of the KPD district management Berlin-Brandenburg. In the resistance he worked together with Reinhold Popall , Wilhelm Knapp , Liesbeth Neubauer , Rudolf Bergtel and Wienand Kaasch . Hanke was arrested on August 10, 1935 and indicted by the People's Court on May 10, 1936 in the trial against Kaasch and others, and sentenced to long imprisonment for high treason. First he was imprisoned in Luckau prison, then together with Erich Honecker in Brandenburg-Görden prison . Due to the increased number of bombing raids on Berlin from 1943 onwards, he was assigned to a construction crew that was driven by truck to the damaged buildings in order to repair the bomb damage. When these transports became too unsafe after a year, his construction crew was placed in the Barnimstrasse women's prison in Berlin; in March 1945 both managed to escape from custody.

From May to September 1945 Hanke was a councilor in the Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg district administration ; then until April 1946 head of the economics and warehouse control department in the German administration for resettlement issues. From April 1946 to October 1947 he was the main consultant for administration and economics in the cadre department of the KPD Central Committee and, after the compulsory merger of the SPD and KPD into the SED, the corresponding department of the SED party executive.

From October 1947 to August 1949 Hanke studied at the party college of the SED . From September 1949 he was director of the workers and farmers faculty in Berlin, then in 1951/52 professor at the Institute for Dialectics and Historical Materialism of the PH Berlin and then until February 1955 first teacher, then head of the school of the foreign intelligence service, Institute for Economic Research or from its successor, Main Department XV in the State Secretariat for State Security . From March 1955, Hanke took on a professorship at the University of Finance in Potsdam-Babelsberg - after the two universities were merged, from 1956 at the Berlin University of Economics ; from 1957 he headed the Institute for Marxism-Leninism there . From 1959 to 1962, Hanke was responsible for studying general partners from the semi-public companies of the GDR.

After his retirement in 1962, Hanke worked as a freelance writer of scientific articles and treatises; in the 1970s he wrote his memoirs, which were published in several editions in the GDR and other countries.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Middle class in the Federal Republic. Verlag Marxist Blätter: Frankfurt (Main) 1973
  • Memories of an illegal. Berlin 1974
  • In the flow of time. Berlin 1976
  • Into the next century. Leipzig 1983

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/24091.sehr-sehr-schmerzhaft.html
  2. ↑ https://www.bundesstiftung-aufteilung.de/wer-war-wer-in-der-ddr-%2363%3B-1424.html?ID=4066
  3. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/1980/36/ein-treuer-diener-seiner-partei/seite-2
  4. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs : The intelligence school. The I. Course of the School of the Institute for Economic Research (IWF) . (= booklets on DDR history 107). Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin 2006, p. 31 f.
personal data
SURNAME Hanke, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter and Marxist economist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Petershagen near Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2005
Place of death Berlin-Rahnsdorf