Ernst Frommhold (politician)

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Ernst Frommhold (born February 21, 1898 in Altenburg ; † April 23, 1969 ) was a German party functionary ( SPD / USPD / KPD / SED ), former concentration camp prisoner , ministerial employee of Thuringia and the GDR .

Life

Frommhold came from a working class family. His father was a foreman . After attending elementary school , he completed an apprenticeship as a sewing machine fitter. In 1912 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and took part in anti-war campaigns . Between 1915 and 1917 he worked as a locksmith in Magdeburg and Berlin . In 1916 he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1917 to 1919 he was an army soldier in the First World War . In 1919 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and in 1920 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). For a few years he lived in Berlin, where he joined the Red Front Fighters Association (RFB). From 1927 he worked again in Altenburg. Because he belonged to the left wing of the KPD, he was delegated to the KPD Reichsparteischule in Fichtenau in 1929/30 and then to the Lenin School in Moscow . After returning from there, he became a KPD instructor for agricultural work in Thuringia. From 1930 to 1933 he was secretary of the KPD district leadership.

In 1933 Frommhold was arrested and, after a long prison sentence, sent to Buchenwald concentration camp , from which he was released in 1940 and now worked as a locksmith again. In 1940 he was drafted into forced labor at the Todt Organization (OT).

After liberation from National Socialism in 1945, he became a member of the Altenburg anti-fascist committee . As the main department head in the State Labor Office, he intrigued against numerous social democrats represented in his office . From March to December 1946 he was State Director for Economics , later head of the Industry and Fuels Department in the Thuringian Ministry of Economics . From mid-1948 he acted as head of the economic planning department and was subordinate to Minister-President Werner Eggerath . In July 1949 he became head of the VVB machine rental stations . He later performed the same function in Brandenburg . In 1951 he was head of department in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR. In 1955 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

After his death, his name was immortalized in the VdN grove of honor at the main cemetery in Erfurt .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , May 7, 1955, p. 2
  2. ↑ http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2009/erfurt_zfrdh_vdn_thuer.htm Accessed May 21, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Frommhold, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German state politicians (USPD / SPD / KPD / SED)
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1969