Erich Wagenbreth

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Erich Wagenbreth (born October 11, 1905 in Haynsburg , † 1955 ) was a German politician ( SED ). From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt in the SBZ and GDR .

Life

Wagenbreth attended elementary school in Breitenbach and learned the profession of wood carver . He became a member of the trade union in 1920 and of the KPD in 1923 . After the establishment of the Hitler dictatorship in 1933, he acted illegally against the Nazi regime. From March 20 to December 23, 1933 Wagenbreth was in so-called “ protective custody ”, of which from June 1933 in Lichtenburg concentration camp . As the organizational and political leader of the illegal KPD, he was in second place in the Zeitz anti-fascist resistance in 1934/35, behind the leader of the Rudolf Agricola group. He was arrested with him and 13 other people on March 20, 1935 and sentenced to nine years in prison on April 18, 1936 by the Berlin Higher Regional Court for preparation for high treason .

After the liberation from National Socialism in 1945 he was involved in building the KPD and became chairman of the KPD district organization Zeitz. In February 1946 an "Organizing Committee of the Unified Workers' Party", consisting of fifteen members from both parties, was formed in the Zeitz district. Wagenbreth was elected to head the committee. Willy Kleiber ( SPD ) took over the chairmanship of the committee, Wagenbreth was his deputy. From April 1946 a member of the SED, Wagenbreth and Paul Henze (previously SPD) became chairman of the SED district council in Halle-Merseburg. In the state elections in the province of Saxony in 1946 , he was elected to the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt in constituency 6 (Liebenwerda, Schweinitz and Torgau) . In the state parliament he worked in the youth committee and in the committee for transport, railroad and post. After the dissolution of the Halle-Merseburg district board in March 1947, he became a member of the SED's Halle district secretariat . From August 1949 to September 1951 he was First Secretary of the SED City Administration in Halle.

Wagenbreth was buried in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

Honors

  • In Zeitz, during the GDR era, a street and a youth club - which also served as the headquarters of the FDJ district leadership - were named after him.

literature

  • Kurt Schwarze : Handbook of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt , Mitteldeutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Halle (Saale) 1947, ISBN 3-89812-444-4 , p. 232.
  • Andreas Schmidt: "... ride with you or be thrown off". The compulsory unification of KPD and SPD in the province of Saxony / in the state of Saxony-Anhalt 1945-1949 , LIT VERLAG, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7066-9 , pp. 66 and 208.
  • Alexander Sperk (edit.): The situation reports of the secret state police for the province of Saxony 1933 to 1936 . Volume 2: Merseburg administrative region . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale), ISBN 978-3-89812-214-6 , p. 311.
  • Christina Trittel: The members of the first state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt 1946-1950. On the failure of democratic hope , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-89812-444-4 , pp. 45f and 214.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Documents and materials on the history of the German labor movement . Volume 1: May 1945 – April 1946 . Dietz, Berlin 1959, p. 474.
  2. ^ Erich Wagenbreth in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives
  3. ↑ Zeitz youth club with a new profile . In: Neue Zeit , September 10, 1990, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Wagenbreth, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Haynsburg
DATE OF DEATH 1955