Friedrich Dettmann (politician)

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Friedrich "Fiete" Dettmann (born July 15, 1897 in Hamburg ; † May 6, 1970 in Stralsund ) was a German politician of the KPD or SED .

Life

The son of a nurse belonging to the SPD completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith and was a metalworker in Hamburg and joined the young workers in 1911 . In 1915 and after an interruption due to injuries he was drafted into military service again in 1917, he became a British prisoner of war, from which he returned to Hamburg in September 1919, where he joined the USPD in 1919 and the KPD in 1920 . He became a full-time functionary in 1923 and was together with u. a. Ernst Thälmann involved in leading the Hamburg uprising . In 1924 he was temporarily chief editor of the Hamburger Volkszeitung. He became a member of the Hamburg parliament , to which he belonged until 1933. Furthermore, Dettmann was part of the district leadership of the KPD and was head of the North German Workers Protection Association , a successor organization to the Red Front Fighters Association , which was banned in 1929 . Professionally, Dettmann worked from 1925 to 1930 for the welfare authority of the city of Hamburg and then until 1933 as a department head at the Soviet trade agency.

After the NSDAP came to power in October 1933, Dettmann fled to Denmark, where he worked as an employee of communist organizations. Arrested in Copenhagen in March 1934, he was deported to the Soviet Union, where he worked for a few months in the Comintern 's Central Europe office . In August of the same year he returned illegally to Germany, where he headed the KPD's Leipzig party district underground. Dettmann was arrested by the Gestapo in January 1935 for his illegal activities for the KPD and sentenced by the People's Court to 10 years in prison in March 1936 and imprisoned in Waldheim prison until liberation in 1945 .

After the Second World War he was initially politically active in Hamburg for the KPD and took over its state chairmanship. Since May 15, 1945, he had been a member of the Hamburg Senate as a senator for the health authority. In addition, from 1946 to 1951 he was again a member of the town hall. After the KPD parliamentary group in Hamburg's citizenship was the only parliamentary group to vote against a display of solidarity for the blocked Berlin on July 2, 1948 , the SPD parliamentary group introduced a motion of no confidence against Dettmann, which was approved on July 21, 1948 by the SPD, CDU and FDP was adopted. In 1950 he was released from his party functions as part of internal party purges and, by party resolution, moved to the German Democratic Republic in 1951 , where he initially worked as a department head in the Mecklenburg State Ministry of Health and then as a sub-department head at the council of the Neubrandenburg district.

From 1953 Fiete Dettmann was a member of the district leadership of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in Stralsund . In 1954 he was reprimanded on charges of anti-party behavior and punished with a year-long ban. From 1956 he acted a. a. as district chairman of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) and deputy chairman of the Stralsund district council.

In 1967 he received the GDR Patriotic Order of Merit in gold and the DSF's Golden Badge of Honor. His hometown Stralsund awarded him honorary citizenship of the city on July 15, 1967 (this was revoked after reunification ). In Stralsund, a school, a street and a culture house in the street were named after him after his death .

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  1. ↑ Brauers, The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953, page 364.
personal data
SURNAME Dettmann, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dettmann, Fiete (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD, SED), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1970
Place of death Stralsund