Ferdinand Jung

Ferdinand Jung (born January 24, 1905 in Waltershausen ; † December 2, 1973 ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Jung, son of a working-class family, attended elementary school in Waltershausen from 1911 to 1919 . He then worked as a doll and rubber worker in Waltershausen until 1922. After a period of unemployment (1922–1924) he worked as a rubber worker in Walterhausen until April 1929, as a potash worker in Merkers at Wintershall AG and as a railway worker in Waltershausen. From 1929 to 1933 he was again unemployed.

In 1920 Jung joined the KJVD , in 1924 he joined the KPD and became a member of the Red Front Fighter League . From 1924 to 1929 he was political leader in the KJVD, from 1930/31 he headed the KPD local group in Waltershausen and was then from 1931 to 1933 head of the KPD sub-district of Waltershausen and political leader of the League against Fascism .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Jung went into hiding after a house search in February 1933 and lived illegally in Friedrichroda , Tambach-Dietharz and Gotha . Jung worked closely with Erich Hohnstein . Both were also active as couriers and were significantly involved in the illegal production of the “Thuringian Volksblatt”. In July 1933 Jung came to Erfurt because the illegal district leadership of the KPD had appointed him as an instructor. In this role he was mainly active in Suhl, Zella-Mehlis , Schmalkalden , Meiningen , later Eisenach , Mühlhausen and in the Erfurt city area. The Gestapo seized him on February 10, 1934 . In June 1934 Jung was sentenced to three years in prison in Jena for " high treason " . After serving his sentence in the Untermaßfeld prison, however, Jung was not released, but instead deported to the Bad Sulza concentration camp in March 1937 . He was then imprisoned in Lichtenburg and from July to August 1937 in Buchenwald . In April 1939 he was released from the concentration camp and then worked until April 1945 as a construction and brickworker in Gotha as well as an iron weaver, passenger and driver.

After the end of the war he became a member of the KPD district leadership in Erfurt in 1945. From June to September 1945 Jung was head of the job center in Waltershausen, then from October 1945 to January 1946 deputy district administrator in Gotha. From February 1946 to October 1948 he acted as First Secretary of the Weimar-Erfurt People's Solidarity . From 1946 he was a member of the SED and its Weimar-Erfurt regional leadership. From November 1948 to January 1952 he worked as the head of the business department of the SED state management in Thuringia . From February 1952 to January 1953, Jung was the first secretary of the Meiningen SED district leadership . In January 1953 he began studying at the “Karl Marx” party college . In 1954/55 he was an authorized instructor in the Department of Governing Bodies of the Central Committee of the SED. From September 1955 he acted as second secretary of the Suhl district leadership of the SED (also secretary for organization and cadre). In September 1963 Jung suffered injuries in a serious car accident , which is why he resigned from the position of the second secretary of the district management in May 1964 for health reasons.

From 1964 to 1969 he headed the "Commission for Research into the Local Labor Movement" at the Suhl district leadership of the SED and was chairman of the "Commission for the Care of Old Deserved Party Members" there. From 1969 he was an employee and head of the district party archive in Suhl.

From 1958 to 1967 Jung was also a member of the Suhl district assembly .

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1959) and in silver (1965)
• Medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945

literature

• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Part II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 149.
• Manfred Weißbecker : Against fascism and the danger of war. A contribution to the history of the KPD in Thuringia 1933–1935 . Historisches Museum, Erfurt 1967, p. 67.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 364.
• Mario Niemann :  Young, Ferdinand . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst : SED squad: The middle level. Biographical encyclopedia of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989 . 1st edition. Ferdinand Schöningh, 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 263 f .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Leuthold (ed.): Gotha. On the history of the city . H. Haack, Gotha / Leipzig 1975, p. 106.
2. ^ According to other information as early as January 1934.