Franz Höppner

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Franz Höppner (born July 28, 1905 in Neubrandenburg ; † June 23, 1989 in Schwerin ) was a German politician ( SPD / SED ), a functionary of the Kulturbund and the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) and director of the Schwerin State Archives .

Life

Franz Höppner, son of a working-class family, learned the trade of machinist. In 1920 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth and in 1923 the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1922 he became a member of the General German Trade Union Federation . He headed the SAJ sub-district Mecklenburg-Strelitz and was a member of the works council of the municipal works and board member of the local executive committee of the SPD Neubrandenburg. In 1932/1933 he worked as a city councilor in Neubrandenburg and as a member of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz state parliament . In 1933 he was arrested, briefly detained and placed under police supervision. Between 1940 and 1945 he had to do military service. He was taken prisoner of war by the Soviets and remained until 1948 .

After his return to Germany he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and the Kulturbund (KB). From 1948 to 1950 he headed the Department of Culture and Education at the State Executive Board of the SED Mecklenburg , then from 1950 to 1952 the Department of Art and Literature in the Mecklenburg Ministry of Public Education. 1951/1952 he was state chairman of KB Mecklenburg, then from 1952 to 1954 first secretary of the district management Schwerin of KB.

From 1952 he was a member of the Schwerin District Assembly, from 1954 to 1964 he was deputy chairman of the Schwerin District Council and from 1955 to 1978 also first chairman of the Schwerin District Association of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship.

From 1964 to 1973, Höppner was the successor to Hugo Cordshagen, who had been demoted for political reasons, as director of the Mecklenburg State Main Archives and the Schwerin State Archives.

He was married to Luise Höppner , Carl Moltmann's daughter .

Awards

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 152.
  • Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 932.
  • Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social democratic parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A manual . ISBN 3-770-05192-0 , Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 517.
  • 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 , pp. 339-340.
  • Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED - history, organization, politics. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 979.
  • Berit Olschewski: "Friends" in enemy territory. Red Army and German post-war society in the former Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1945–1953 . ISBN 978-3-830-51690-3 , BWV Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 504.

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personal data
SURNAME Höppner, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED) and functionary
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubrandenburg
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1989
Place of death Schwerin