Friedrich August Heiden

Friedrich August Heiden (born May 12, 1887 in Breitenborn AW , Gelnhausen district, † August 22, 1954 in Weißwasser ) was a German politician ( SPD , KPD , SED ).

origin

Heiden was born as the son of glassmaker Friedrich Heiden and his wife Klara in what was then Breitenborn AW in the Büdinger Forest . From 1893 to 1901 he was an elementary school student and also worked at night in Friedrich Siemens' glassworks in Neusattl in Bohemia . After finishing school, he worked as a single porter in Bischofswerda when he was 14 . From 1904 he became politically active as a member of the SPD and the glass workers' union. Subsequently he worked in various glass factories in Dresden , Döbern and Weißwasser as a flask maker or assistant.

Politicization and Life Before World War II

Heiden began his military service as an untrained man in Glogau and was deployed in France for three months without a weapon. On January 3, 1920 he married Anni Heiden, who from then on supported him in his political work together with Veronika Ingelöf. After seven months of attending the social democratic party school in Berlin , he was given party functions, including sub-district secretary, in which he dealt with agitation and theoretical questions. At the end of 1923, for example, his brochure Vom Urkommunismus zum Weltkontzern appeared in the Görlitz workers' printing plant . Heiden was also active as a community representative and lay judge during this time . In 1924 Heiden joined the KPD and the Red Front Fighters League . After its dissolution in 1929, he acquired the band's instruments and received them in the form of the “Martina” game association .

From September 1, 1928 to March 10, 1933 he was Gauleiter of the International Association of Victims of War and Work in Breslau. After the seizure of power by the NSDAP Gentiles was from April to August 1933 prison Swidnica and KZ Dürrgoy detained. After getting by with odd jobs, he settled in Weißwasser in 1936 , worked as an accountant and later as a glass worker in the United Lusatian Glass Works .

After the Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , Heiden was also imprisoned for 14 days in the Groß-Rosen concentration camp . As a man assigned to the Volkssturm , he did not work for an hour with the weapon.

Work after 1945

After the end of the war, Heiden became a member of the local KPD leadership on May 11, 1945 under Mayor Karl Ingelöf, together with Max Schmidt , Friedrich Greiner and Hugo Rösner City Councilor of Weißwasser. After the forced union in the spring of 1946, he became a member of the SED. On August 6, 1945, Heiden was appointed district administrator for the Weißwasser district . To ensure the SED's control of the school system, he also took over the training and further education of young workers to become new teachers .

After the district and state elections of October 1946 and the expansion of the area to the west of the Neisse part of the Görlitz district , Heiden also became the district administrator of the new Weisswasser-Görlitz district . In 1947 Heiden became President of the State Chamber for Finances at the State Administration in Dresden and in 1949 Chairman of the Association of Agricultural Cooperatives .

After a heart attack in 1952 he became a disability pensioner and returned to Weißwasser, where he died.

swell

• On the history of the SED in the district of Weißwasser , trailblazers - from the life of anti-fascist resistance fighters in the district of Weißwasser , part (1), Weißwasser 1988, publisher. Commission for research into the history of the local workers' movement and tradition commission of the Weißwasser district leadership of the SED

Web links

• Picture by Friedrich August Heiden in the online edition of the ( Lausitzer Rundschau )