Franz Moericke

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Franz Moericke (born March 29, 1885 in Apolda , Thuringia, † May 29, 1956 in Neuenhagen near Berlin ) was a German craftsman (model maker) and politician (KPD).

Life

Moericke was born in 1885 as the son of a worker. He attended elementary school , then completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and worked in his profession for a few years. In 1902 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1910 to 1920 Moericke worked as a full-time union secretary. In 1918 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). In 1920 he switched to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), for which he worked as a full-time party official.

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Initially Moericke was committed to the KPD in Halberstadt , then he was secretary and editor-in-chief of the Red Flag of the East and the Echo of the East in Königsberg . From 1924 to 1928 Moericke was a member of the Prussian state parliament . In 1927 he became editor-in-chief of the Magdeburg tribune . At this time he also came to the Central Committee of the KPD. In 1930 Moericke was elected to the Reichstag as a candidate of the KPD for constituency 1 (East Prussia) , of which he was a member until July 1932. In 1931 Moericke began working as an editor on the communist magazine Rote Fahne .

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " in 1933, Moericke was active in the communist underground movement. He was arrested on September 6, 1933 and held as a " protective prisoner " in the Oranienburg concentration camp , where he worked as a carpenter. On November 27, 1934, he was sentenced to a two-year prison sentence "for preparation for high treason", which he served in Luckau prison. After his release, Moericke worked as a carpenter before he was arrested again on July 25, 1944 because of his contacts with the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization as part of the " Grid Action ". He was once again sentenced to three years in prison by the People's Court "for preparing for high treason and favoring the enemy" and held in the Brandenburg prison until the end of the war in 1945 .

In the same year Moericke belonged to the provincial commission for the implementation of the land reform in Brandenburg. From August 1945 to October 1949 Moericke was a member of the founding committee of the FDGB . From February 1946 to March 1947 he was also chairman of the FDGB state association in Brandenburg. His successor in this office was Rudolf Jahn . From 1945 to 1952 Moericke was also a member of the full board of the FDGB. In October 1949 he became editor-in-chief of the magazine Land und Forst , an activity which he carried out until 1955.

In 1946 Moericke became a member of the newly founded Socialist Unity Party of Germany . From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the Brandenburg state parliament and its presidium.

Street sign in Apolda

In 1955 Franz Moericke was awarded the Karl Marx Order by Wilhelm Pieck . Moericke's urn was buried in the memorial of the socialists in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery.

The city of Apolda honored its son in GDR times by renaming Jacobistraße to "Franz-Moericke-Straße".

Fonts

  • One for all, all for one. A story from the life of farm workers , 1929.

literature

  • Kurt Baller: Franz Moericke. A picture of life 1885–1956. Potsdam District Board of the FDGB, Agitation, Propaganda Department, Potsdam 1987.
  • Moericke, Franz . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 901 f .
  2. ^ German Institute for Contemporary History: Yearbook of the German Democratic Republic , 1956, p. 118.
personal data
SURNAME Moericke, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German craftsmen, resistance fighters against National Socialism and politicians (KPD, SED), MdR, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Apolda
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1956
Place of death Neuenhagen near Berlin