Fritz Grosse

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Fritz Grosse (1933)

Fritz Willibald Große (born February 5, 1904 in Altenberg (Erzgebirge) , † December 12, 1957 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPD , later SED ).

Life

The son of a carpenter and a textile worker, Große attended elementary school in Reifland from 1910 to 1918 and worked there as a woodworker from 1918 to 1920. In 1918 he joined the German Woodworkers Association. In May 1920, at the age of 16, he went to Soviet Russia and fought there from July in the 3rd Cavalry Corps of the Red Army . In the same year he became a member of the Russian Communist Party . In 1921 he returned to his father (his mother had already died) in Germany, who meanwhile lived in Siegmar near Chemnitz . Here he became a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

In 1922/23 he was head of the KJVD sub-district Siegmar-Hohenstein, then in 1923/24 head of the KJVD sub-district Erzgebirge. From 1924 to 1927 he was a member of the KJVD district leadership in Chemnitz and at the same time a member of the KPD district leadership Erzgebirge-Vogtland. From 1925 to 1932 he was a member of the Central Committee of the KJVD. From 1927 to 1929 secretary of both the KJVD and the KPD district leadership in Halle-Merseburg. In 1929 he was elected as a candidate for the Central Committee of the KPD and was organizational secretary in the Central Committee of the KJVD.

From 1930 to 1932, Große was a member of the Executive Committee of the Communist Youth International . From August 1931 to October he represented them in Great Britain , where he was arrested in April 1932 and sentenced to six months in prison. In October 1932 he was elected chairman of the Central Committee of the KJVD (until August 1934). From November 1932 to March 1933 was a major member of the German Reichstag .

At the beginning of 1933 he stayed in Moscow and Paris , but traveled to Germany for the illegal meeting of the Central Committee of the KPD on February 7, 1933 in the sports store Ziegenhals near Berlin. In May 1933 he went into exile in Prague , then to Moscow, and in June 1933 to Paris. He stayed in Amsterdam until November 1933 , then again in Paris. In February 1934 he returned to Berlin to work illegally for the KPD. He was arrested in Düsseldorf in August 1934 and sentenced to life imprisonment in March 1936. From 1936 to 1945 he was imprisoned in the Brandenburg-Görden prison and in satellite camps of the Mauthausen concentration camp .

Liberated at the end of the war, he went to Moscow via Vienna in June 1945 . In July of the same year he returned to Germany with Wilhelm Pieck and Franz Dahlem .

From 1946 he was a member of the state board of the KPD and after the union of the SPD and KPD of the SED Saxony and its secretariat (secretary of the organization department, later for cadre issues), there also responsible for youth work. From 1947 to 1949 he held the office of state chairman of the VVN Saxony. In 1948/49 he was chairman of the state party control commission of the SED Saxony and head of the state control commission in Saxony.

From 1949 to 1952 he was the first ambassador of the GDR to Czechoslovakia in Prague. He then worked from 1953 to 1957 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as head of the Socialist Countries Department and as a member of the College. In 1957 he was instrumental in preparing diplomatic relations between the GDR and the FVR Yugoslavia .

tomb

His health had suffered as a result of his 11 years imprisonment in the penitentiary and concentration camps. He died after a serious illness. His urn was buried in the memorial of the socialists in the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

Fritz Große had been in a relationship with Lea Große nee Lichter, a communist functionary and later editor-in-chief of the German soldier broadcaster , since 1928 . The two married after 1946. He had two children, an adopted daughter and a son.

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Fritz Große  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of participants
  2. ^ New Germany of May 7, 1955
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, February 29, 1968, p. 8
  4. ^ Fritz-Große-Strasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
personal data
SURNAME Great, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Große, Fritz Willibald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenberg (Ore Mountains)
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1957
Place of death Berlin