Ferdinand Medlin
Ferdinand Medlin (* 1892 in Vienna , † after 1950 in the GULAG ) was an Austrian, active in Germany, trade unionist, social democrat and victim of Stalinism. From 1927 to 1933 he was District Secretary of the ADGB Silesia as the successor to Oswald Wiersich .
Life
Medlin was a trained bricklayer. In Breslau he was from 1923 an employee of the Silesian Factory Workers' Union (FAV, responsible speaker "Stones and Earths"). The FAV was the predecessor organization of what was later to become the IG Chemie-Papier-Keramik (today IGBCE ). From 1927 to 1933 he was district secretary (corresponds to today's DGB district chairman) of the ADGB Silesia as the successor to Oswald Wiersich, who had moved up to the ADGB state executive (State of Prussia , to which Silesia belonged at the time) and became a member of the SPD state parliament in Silesia. In the 1928 electoral term, Medlin was a member of the city council of Breslau (Wiersich had left there in 1928), but resigned his mandate on March 16, 1929.
During the Nazi era , Medlin was initially unemployed after the unions were broken up in 1933, and later found his way through changing occupations in the construction industry. In February 1945 he fled to Saxony with his family . After he was noticed by the state administration through excellent performance in the management of the reconstruction in the Pirna region , he was appointed advisor for "Stones and Earth" in the economic department of the state administration of Saxony (LVS) in October 1945 .
As a member of the informal "Breslauer Kreis" of former Silesian Social Democrats, who networked across the sector boundaries again around July / August 1946 (the former Silesian Social Democrats Paul Löbe , Hermann Lüdemann , Hans Ziegler and Gustav Leißner belonged to this group) Medlin soon in the crosshairs of the NKVD .
Medlin was convicted of "espionage" ( Art. 58 StGB of the RSFSR ) in secret proceedings by the SMT around 1950 and was deported to the Soviet Union.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ferdinand Medlin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Labor movement in Wrocław : Joint portal of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the University of Wrocław .
Publications, public appearances
- Ferdinand Medlin . "Die Handwerksnovelle": The Wroclaw ADGB District Secretary Ferdinand Medlin on the radio program "Die Hour der Arbeit" with a report on the amendment to the Crafts Code . October 16, 1930 / SFS Breslau / 8: 00–8: 30 pm. Website of the German Broadcasting Archive . Retrieved August 17, 2014.
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- ^ List of members of the Wroclaw City Council from 1919 to 1933 (Norbert Korfmacher, Münster). Status: November 18, 2012. Accessed August 17, 2014.
- ↑ Mike Schmeitzner: Breslau in view - German Nazi opponents between expulsion and resettlement In: Schmeitzner, Stoklosa (ed.) Partner or opponent? LIT Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8258-1254-6 , p. 129
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Medlin, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian and German social democrat and trade unionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1950 |
| Place of death | GULAG |