Ernst Horn (politician)

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Ernst Horn (born April 18, 1912 in Berlin ; † March 27, 2001 in Berlin) was a German politician ( KPD , SED ), resistance fighter against National Socialism and head of the German Sports Committee .

Life

The son of an upholsterer was born in Berlin-Moabit and learned after visiting the elementary school the profession of precision mechanic . Socialized by the working class milieu in his neighborhood , he became a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) in 1928 and of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1930 . From 1930 to 1934 he was unemployed. In 1932 he was elected KJVD chairman of the Wedding workers' district. In the autumn of 1932 he took part in the meeting of the central committee of his youth association in Prieros , which was also attended by KPD chairman Ernst Thälmannparticipated. In 1933 he was entrusted with the management of the KJVD of the Saarland . From 1934 he worked as a mechanic for the Reichspost. During the Nazi dictatorship , he continued to work illegally as a KPD member in the political underground, but was drafted into the Wehrmacht during the Second World War .

After the liberation from National Socialism in 1945, Ernst Horn came to Apolda , became youth secretary of the KPD local leadership, head of the youth culture office and third mayor of the Apolda city administration. He was significantly involved in the formation of an anti-fascist youth committee , which led to the establishment of a local group of the FDJ in Apolda. After the forced unification of the SPD and KPD to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in April 1946, he became the youth secretary of the then state leadership of the SED in Thuringia. In the same year he played a leading role in the Thuringian State Youth Committee and was the first state chairman of the FDJ in Thuringia from 1946 to October 1948 after the FDJ was founded . With his election he became a member of the Central Council of the FDJ, to which he belonged until 1955. From 1949 to 1951 he was also a member of the office and secretariat of the Central Council of the FDJ.

In addition to his commitment to the Free German Youth, Ernst Horn also participated in parliamentary work in the Soviet Zone and GDR at local, state and republic level. In Apolda he was elected on September 8, 1946 as a member of the city council. From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament. Since 1948 he was a member of the First German People's Council with the mandate of the FDGB , which was supposed to work out a draft constitution for Germany. With the first election of the People's Chamber on October 15, 1950, he became a member of the People's Chamber . From May 1949 to 1951 he was the successor to the deposed Waldemar Borde head of the German Sports Committee .

From 1951 Horn worked in the economic policy department at the Central Committee of the SED and later at the Ministry of the Interior . He graduated as an engineer from the University of Transport in Dresden . From 1959 to 1977 he worked in the rank of senior councilor as head of the office for innovation at the Central Office for Transmission Systems of the Deutsche Post, as a department head in the Ministry for Post and Telecommunications and as an employee in the office of the Council of Ministers of the GDR . He last lived in Berlin as a disability pensioner.

Awards and honors

literature

  • Karl Heinz Jahnke : The emergence of the Free German Youth 1945/46. In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement. Vol. 38, H. 1 (March 1996), pp. 14-30
  • Ulrich Mählert; Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan: Blue shirts, red flags. The history of the Free German Youth. Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-8100-1714-0 (historical-critical presentation)
  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , pp. 150-151.
  • Volker Kluge :  Horn, Ernst . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Junge Welt, February 20, 1986
  2. ↑ Junge Welt, July 31, 1985
  3. ^ Congratulations on your 75th birthday in Neues Deutschland on April 18, 1987
  4. ^ New Germany of May 8, 1949
  5. ^ New Germany of May 8, 1949
  6. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of May 6, 1970
  7. ↑ Congratulations on your 60th birthday in Neues Deutschland on April 18, 1972


personal data
SURNAME Horn, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDJ / SED)
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2001
Place of death Berlin