Wilhelm Eildermann

Friedrich Wilhelm Eildermann (born July 24, 1897 in Bremen , † October 16, 1988 in East Berlin ) was a German communist politician (KPD / SED), journalist and university professor .

Life

The working-class son Wilhelm Eildermann became a primary school teacher and joined the SPD in 1915. From 1904 to 1912 he was a volunteer for the Bremer Bürgerzeitung and also wrote for the Junge Garde newspaper in Bremen. From 1916 to 1918 he fought in the First World War . In 1919 he switched to the KPD, was a functionary from 1920 and worked for various German KPD newspapers until 1933. Among other things, Eildermann was editor-in-chief of the Niedersächsische Arbeiterzeitung from 1921 to 1923 , from 1923 to 1924 editor-in-chief of the Schlesische Arbeiterzeitung in Breslau and from 1928 to 1930 editor-in-chief of the tribune in Magdeburg. After 1925 he married Luise Eildermann , b. Gieber (1899–1986), who was a KPD member of the Bremen citizenship in 1930/31 . 1930 Eildermann was for press offenses to one year and nine months imprisonment sentenced that he served in Bremen. From 1932 to February 1933 Eildermann was editor-in-chief of the People's Guard in Rostock .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he was an illegal agitprople leader of the Mecklenburg district leadership of the KPD. On May 1, 1933, he was arrested and taken to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp. In 1934 he was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment for illegal activity, which he served in Bützow-Dreibergen and Strelitz . After his release in May 1936, Eildermann lived in Bremen, worked on the construction of the motorway and was again illegally active in politics. In January 1937 Eildermann emigrated to Czechoslovakia , where he worked for the foreign editorial team of the Sudeten German communist Red Flag and the newspaper Der Funke . In October 1937 he went to Paris and worked there in the secretariat of the International Center for Law and Freedom in Germany . He wrote articles for the magazine Rundschau on the politics, economics and labor movement of the Communist International . After the outbreak of war, he was interned as an enemy German in the Le Vernet internment camp in September 1939 . In 1943 he was transferred to the camp in Djelfa in Vichy Algeria and then released. In 1943 Eildermann fought briefly in the British Army and was then a civilian employee in the US Army in Algiers . In 1944 he went to the Soviet Union and became editor of the newspaper Free Germany of the National Committee Free Germany . In August 1944 Eildermann became a lecturer at the front school for German prisoners of war on the 3rd Ukrainian Front . In May 1947 he returned to Germany.

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From 1947 to 1951 Eildermann, SED member since 1946, was editor-in-chief of the press service in the central committee of the SED and main editor of the advertising-press-broadcasting department and editor-in-chief of the SED magazine Einheit . After the reopening of the universities in the Soviet occupation zone , the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD) set up academic training for journalists in Leipzig . In August 1951 Eildermann was appointed professor and director of the Institute for Journalism and Newspaper Studies at the University of Leipzig . Until 1957 he held the chair for methodology of journalistic practice . Eildermann was appointed without a doctorate , which was unusual even in the GDR in the 1950s. From 1954 to 1957 Eildermann was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. In 1957 he became Sector Leader Edition in the History Department of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED in Berlin. Eildermann retired in the mid-1970s. In 1977 the Scientific Council of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED appointed him an honorary doctor on the occasion of his 80th birthday .

Wilhelm Eildermann died in 1988 at the age of 91 in East Berlin. His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Awards

• 1955 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1957 Labor banner
• 1962 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• 1967 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
• 1970 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
• 1975 Karl Marx Order
• 1977 Gold Star of Friendship between Nations

Fonts

• How do you write a newspaper article? Grandstand, Berlin 1952.
• Editing and literary correction of newspaper material . Berlin 1953.
• Traveling as a traveling speaker of the KPD. Memories of the first years of the KPD, 1919-1920 . Dietz, Berlin 1977.
• Youth in the First World War . Berlin 1972.
• The anti-school - memories of a front school of the Red Army . Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1985.

literature

• Eildermann, Wilhelm . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
• Peter Erler:  Eildermann, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Tillmann Bendikowski : Summer 1914: Between enthusiasm and fear - how Germans experienced the beginning of the war , Munich: Bertelsmann 2014

Web links

• Wilhelm Eildermann in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Wilhelm Eildermann, professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993 , accessed on November 22, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dagmar Stuckmann: Eildermann, Luise, born. Gieber . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
2. ^ Wilhelm Eildermann in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
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