Ernst Krüger (politician)

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Ernst Wilhelm Julius Krüger (born January 9, 1895 in Eberswalde , † October 26, 1970 in Berlin ) was a German communist politician ( KPD / SED ), a member of the People's Chamber and a trade union official in the GDR .

Life

The working-class son Ernst Krüger was the oldest of nine children. The father was a painter for the railroad, the mother is busy with the many children. Nevertheless, they managed to let everyone learn something that was by no means taken for granted back then. The family soon moved to Berlin. Ernst attended elementary school until the age of 14. As the elder, he had to take care of the younger siblings very often. He moved away from home after completing his apprenticeship as a locksmith on the railroad. In his profession he worked until 1926. As an apprentice, he became a union member. From 1915 to 1918 he did military service in the First World War in the 263rd pioneer company. At first he was a member of the evangelical young men’s association, but he soon became an active union member and left the church and joined the Social Democratic Party.

Ernst Krüger joined the USPD in 1918 and the KPD in 1920. In 1924 he was arrested for the first time and sentenced to nine months in prison in Kassel-Wehlheiden . From 1926 Ernst Krüger was a full-time KPD functionary.

In 1928 and 1929 Krüger was a city ​​councilor in Eberswalde and from 1929 a member of the Brandenburg Provincial Parliament . In 1932 and early 1933, Krüger was on behalf of the Central Committee of the KPD election instructor for Oldenburg and editor of the Kassel party newspaper.

On July 28, 1933, Ernst Krüger was arrested because he had also supported the KPD in illegal matters. He was temporarily imprisoned in the Brandenburg concentration camp and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, which he served in Luckau prison. Ernst Krüger was released in 1936 and emigrated to Czechoslovakia after being warned about being arrested again . There he was involved in mobilizing the volunteer Germans to join the interbrigades in Spain.

He himself was a member of the international brigades from December 1936 to 1938 and fought in the Spanish Civil War . Due to a serious illness, he went to France via the Pyrenees. From July 1938 he was interned in France. During his stay in France he met his future wife Lore . In May 1941 they both emigrated to Mexico . On the way there, the ship "Winnipeg" was hijacked and so he and his companions landed in the USA . There Ernst Krüger became an employee and managing director of the newspaper The German American .

In October 1946 he returned to Germany and became a member of the SED. From 1947 to 1950 he was first a member and then secretary of the federal executive committee of the FDGB . In 1948 and 1949 he was General Secretary of the FDGB and from 1949 to 1950 a member of the People's Chamber. From 1949 Ernst Krüger was also a member and temporarily secretary of the SED regional association for Greater Berlin.

On December 1, 1950, Ernst Krüger became magistrate director for material supply for Berlin and shortly afterwards plant manager of VEB Wälzlager Berlin . In the 1950s he was Labor Director at Gross Berliner Wasser- und Drainagewerke . In 1954 he was retired due to a heart condition. He then worked on a voluntary basis in his residential area in Berlin-Koepenick as a member of the city district assembly and as honorary chairman of the revision committee of the central committee for youth consecration of the GDR. Krüger died in East Berlin in 1970.

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  1. ↑ http://www.bundesarchiv.de/sed-fdgb-netzwerk/html/gremien.html?mode=FDGB&cat=23
  2. ^ Ernst Krüger in the FDGB Lexicon
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krüger, Ernst Wilhelm Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD / SED)
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Eberswalde
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1970
Place of death Berlin