Friedrich Dowedeit

Friedrich Dowedeit (also Fritz ) (born December 4, 1892 in Augskalinen near Gumbinnen in East Prussia ; † January 1965 in East Berlin ) was a German politician of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). From 1924 to 1931 he was a member of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament and city ​​council in Gumbinnen.

Life

As the son of a working-class family, Dowedeit became a bricklayer in Insterburg after primary school . After his military service from 1911 to 1913, he fought from 1914 to 1918 as a simple soldier in the First World War . From the end of the war until 1931 he worked as a foreman in Gumbinnen.

In 1919 Dowedeit joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and switched to the KPD in 1921. From 1921 to 1931 he was district chairman of the KPD in Gumbinnen and from 1924 to 1931 a member of the East Prussian provincial parliament and city council in Gumbinnen. After he resigned his mandate in the provincial parliament in 1931, Otto Zimmerink moved up. In 1931 Dowedeit became a functionary in the Reich leadership of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO), and was temporarily RGO secretary for the East Prussia district and a member of the RGO Reich leadership.

After the seizure of power of the Nazis and the ban on communist work in March 1933 supported Dowedeit the party in the illegality. He was arrested in 1933, but was released again. Until the end of the Second World War , Dowedeit lived undisturbed as an independent coal trader and merchant in Berlin .

After the end of the war, Dowedeit became a union official in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany (SBZ) and a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1945/46 he was secretary of the central board of the industrial union for agriculture and forestry within the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) and in 1946/47 he was an assistant to the President of the German Central Administration for Agriculture and Forestry Edwin Hoernle .

From 1947 to 1950 Dowedeit worked again as an independent businessman. His small business went on in 1951 in the consumer association Berlin-Mitte . On January 4, 1952, Dowedeit was expelled from the SED for "party damaging behavior as an opportunist and sectarian", but was reinstated in 1957. Until 1959 he was an employee of the municipal housing administration in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg .

literature

• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
• Norbert Korfmacher: Provisional list of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933, 2018, p. 14, digitized .