Felix Kaden

Felix Kaden (born August 12, 1892 in Kötzschenbroda , today Radebeul ; † June 29, 1964 ) was an SPD , later SED politician, acting Saxon Minister for Agriculture and Forestry (1950) and a member of the Saxon State Parliament .

Life

Kaden grew up as the son of the cigar manufacturer, publisher and Social Democratic member of the Reichstag , August Kaden (1850-1913), first in Kötzschenbroda at Uferstrasse 6 .

Political activity

As early as 1907, the typesetter Kaden became a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth. In 1910 he became a member of the SPD. From 1918 to 1920 he was an independent gardener owner. From 1920 to 1933 he was party secretary of the SPD in Bautzen and Meißen. Between 1933 and 1945, Kaden was arrested several times for illegal political activity. From 1945 to 1946, Kaden was a member of the executive Saxon SPD state executive and then, after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD from 1946 to 1948, a member of the SED state secretariat. Together with Rudolf Eckert , Rudolf Friedrichs and Stanislaw Trabalski , he fought against Bolshevization .

Also from 1946 to 1948, Kaden was a member of the Saxon state parliament and in 1950, for a short time, Saxon Minister for Agriculture and Forestry in the Seydewitz cabinet . In the fall of 1950, Kaden lost his political offices.

literature

• Mike Schmeitzner , Stefan Donth: The party to enforce dictatorship: KPD / SED in Saxony 1945-1952 , In: Volume 21 of writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research, Böhlau 2002

Web links

• The initiative group around Anton Ackermann: 3. The work of the Ackermann group or the conquest of the Saxon "kingdom" ( MS Word ; 427 kB)
• Literature by and about Felix Kaden in the Saxon Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mike Schmeitzner / Michael Rudloff: History of Social Democracy in the Saxon State Parliament; in contributions to the history of the labor movement, trafo verlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin, 40th year 1998 (PDF; 688 kB); ISSN  0942-3060 , p. 135.