Friedrich Nickolay
Friedrich Nickolay (also Fritz or Jacques ; born October 28, 1909 in Dudweiler / Saar, † October 15, 1953 in East Berlin ) was a German KPD functionary, Resistance fighter and SED functionary.
Life
Nickolay became a member of the KJVD Saar in 1924 , where he also took on management positions, and in 1928 he joined the Communist Party of Germany . In June 1933 he was arrested in Speyer and remained in prison and in the Dachau concentration camp until 1934 . He then worked as a functionary of the illegal KPD in the Saar region and later emigrated to France . He was a founding member and head of the FDJ in Paris . In September 1939 he was arrested and interned in Colombes , among other places . Discharged due to illness, he fled the Basens camp near Bordeaux after being arrested again, and from 1943 worked as a member of the Travail allemand in the Resistance . From 1943 to 1945 he took over the leadership of the KPD in Lyon and was a liaison to the German fighters of the Movement Free Germany for the West (CALPO). In June 1945 he returned illegally to the Saar area. From 1946 to 1951 he was chairman or first secretary of the Saar Communist Party , from 1948 to 1951 a member of the party executive of the KPD and from 1946 to 1949 a member of the party executive of the SED. In 1947 he was a member of the Saarland Constitutional Commission , which drafted the Saarland constitution. In April 1951 he moved to the GDR in connection with checks on emigrants from the West , where he worked as the main director of a coal company and as an employee in the State Secretariat for Coal.
Honors
Until the shutdown of the Zwickau hard coal mining in the late 1970s, underground mine shaft I, which had been cleared up again in 1953, was used as a central drainage shaft under the name "Friedrich-Nickolay-Schacht".
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Nickolay, Friedrich (Fritz) . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steinkohlenbergbauverein Zwickau eV "The coal mining in the Zwickau area, Förster & Borries, Zwickau 2000, p. 406.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nickolay, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nickolay, Fritz; Nickolay, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German KPD functionary, resistance fighter and SED functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dudweiler |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1953 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |