Franz Lepinski

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Franz Lepinski (born July 19, 1896 in East Prussia ; † September 21, 1977 ) was a German trade union official , co-founder of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ), city ​​councilor and cultural department of Erfurt ( SPD / SED ) and member of the DGB federal executive committee.

Life

After attending elementary school, Lepinski learned the trade of commercial clerk and joined the union early on. From 1914 to 1921 he was a youth functionary of the association of office workers , later of the central association of employees (ZdA). Then until the liquidation of the Weimar Republic he was secretary on the board of the ZdA. Since 1920 Lepinski was committed to the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ). The success of his work also affected the position of the left-wing Hanoverian circle , which was able to prevail in the SAJ against the nationally oriented Hofgeismar circle . He became Reich Chairman of the Young Socialists and ran in 1930 against SAJ Chairman Erich Ollenhauer , whom he accused of educating young people to adapt to the party. Regardless of this, the SPD executive committee dissolved the Jusos in 1931 and positioned itself clearly to the right.

After power was transferred to the NSDAP and the trade unions were banned, Lepinski lost all trade union functions. His books were given to the flames on May 10, 1933 in the Nazi book burning .

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, he joined the “Bund democratic socialists” (BDS) and joined the re-established SPD. He became head of department in the Thuringian Ministry of Labor. Since 1946 he was a member of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and, with its mandate, city councilor and cultural department of the city of Erfurt. Franz Lepinski was probably responsible for the establishment and implementation of the four culture weeks as well as for the creation of the accompanying text Kulturwille . In 1950 he was removed from office and expelled from the SED. After fleeing to the Federal Republic of Germany, he briefly headed the Lower Saxony folk high school in Springe and was then until 1956 clerk for social policy at the DGB federal executive committee. From 1956 to 1959 he headed its press office . From 1959 to 1961 he was an executive member of the board.

Publications

  • A hundred years ago, Düsseldorf : Dt. Trade Union Confederation, [1963]
  • The youth socialist movement, its history, etc. their tasks , Berlin: E. Laubsche Verlbh., 1927
  • The trade union movement in Germany , [Düsseldorf]: D [t.] G [ewerkschafts-] B [und, Bundesvorstand], [1962]

literature

  • Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 , = publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 559, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.herbert-henck.de/Internettexte/Kallenbach_III/kallenbach_iii.html Retrieved May 31, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Lepinski, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politicians (SPD, SED)
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1977