Franz Radicke

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Franz Radicke (born August 15, 1909 in Berlin , † January 14, 1985 in Potsdam ) was a German SED functionary.

Life

Radicke, son of a working-class family, learned the trade of art and construction carpenter and joined the German Metalworkers' Association . He became a member of the SAJ , later the Red Young Front and the KJVD . In 1929 he joined the KPD.

After the National Socialists ' seizure of power ' in 1933, he took part in the resistance against the Nazi regime , was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison and five years of loss of honor. Towards the end of the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , served with the tank pioneers and defected to the Red Army in March 1945 .

After the end of the war he returned to Germany, took an active part in the rebuilding as a member of the KPD and initially became director of the Heilbrunn children's home in the state of Brandenburg. Member of the SED since 1946, he acted as second secretary of the SED district leadership in Kyritz and as first secretary of the SED district leadership in Wittstock (1953–1955) and Pritzwalk (1955–1960). From 1962 to May 1971 he was chairman of the Potsdam District Revision Commission of the SED. He then worked as chairman of the district commission for the care of deserving party veterans of the SED district leadership in Potsdam.

Awards

Fonts

  • From I to we. Socialist transformation in the countryside: memories of the years 1952–1960 in the Pritzwalk district . Pritzwalk district leadership of the SED, Commission for Research into the History of the Local Labor Movement 1980.

literature

  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 680.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Märkische Volksstimme from January 16, 1985.
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , September 29, 1979, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Radicke, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter and SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1985
Place of death Potsdam