Fritz Reuter (politician, 1911)
Fritz Reuter (born July 4, 1911 in Berlin ; † March 26, 2000 there ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .
Life
Reuter was born into a working-class family and learned the trade of bricklayer from 1925 to 1928 . It had been unionized since 1925. In 1926 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth and in 1927 the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD). Until 1933 he worked as a functionary for the KJVD in Berlin, Leipzig and Düsseldorf . From 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the Central Committee of the KJVD. In 1930 he joined the KPD.
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, he was head of the illegal KJVD in Düsseldorf from 1933. Reuter was arrested and in December 1934 the Hamm Court to two years and six months in prison convicted. After his release from Sachsenhausen concentration camp in February 1938, he worked illegally for the KPD in Berlin. He made contact with the Saefkow-Bästlein resistance group and was arrested again on December 16, 1939. In June 1940 he was sentenced by the People's Court to three years and six months in prison, which he had to spend again in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. At the end of June 1944, like Herbert Tschäpe a few weeks earlier , he managed to escape from an external command at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Berlin-Lichtenrade . Reuter then worked under the code name Josef Kunz in the underground for the resistance of the KPD.
After the KPD was approved in June 1945, Reuter became the first chairman of the KPD in Berlin-Neukölln and in September 1945 a member of the KPD's Berlin district leadership. Since 1946 a member of the SED, in the same year he became secretary of the SED state executive committee and the SED district leadership in Berlin. In October 1946 he was elected to the city council of Greater Berlin as a member of the SED parliamentary group , to which he belonged until 1948. In February 1953 he played a leading role in the constitution of the representative assembly of Greater Berlin, which later became the city council of East Berlin, and was then a city councilor until 1954.
From 1954 to 1957 he was second secretary and then until 1960 first secretary of the SED district leadership in Dresden . From 1954 to 1958 he was a member of the Central Revision Commission of the SED and a member of the Dresden District Assembly . From 1958 to 1963 Reuter was a member of the Central Committee of the SED and a member of the People's Chamber . From October 1960 to October 1966 Reuter was the first deputy chairman of the Erfurt district council and from 1967 to 1972 chairman of the SED district revision commission there.
From May 1972 to 1989 Reuter was deputy secretary, then deputy chairman of the committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters of the GDR .
Awards
- Patriotic Order of Merit in silver (May 6, 1955), in gold (1969) and bar of honor (1974)
- Ernst Moritz Arndt Medal (1957)
- Medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945 (1958)
- Medal of Merit of the GDR (1959)
- Order Banner of Labor (1960)
- Karl Marx Order (1976)
- Honorary title " Hero of Labor " (1986)
literature
- Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 3rd electoral period . Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 373.
- Günther Buch: names and dates. Biographies of important people in the GDR. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, ISBN 3-8012-0020-5 , p. 230.
- Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, p. 1004.
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , pp. 707-708.
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , p. 613.
- Hans-Joachim Fieber (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon . Volume 6 [P-R]. Trafo, Berlin 2005, p. 140.
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Reuter, Fritz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Documents on the history of the communist movement in Germany. Series 1945/46 , Volume 5, edited by Günter Benser and Hans-Joachim Krusch with the collaboration of Hans Meusel, Munich et al. 1996, p. 618.
- Berlin workers' resistance 1942-1945. "Put an end to the war with Hitler!". The Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein-Organization , catalog for the exhibition, ed. from the Berlin Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten e. V. , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027768-9 , p. 67.
Individual evidence
- ^ First meeting of the Greater Berlin People's Representation . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 14, 1953, p. 6.
- ↑ Congratulations for Fritz Reuter - Hermann Axen presented the title "Held der Arbeit" . In: Junge Welt , July 5, 1986, p. 2.
See also
Max Broßelt (1952–1954) | Fritz Reuter (1954–1957) | Heinz Hutsky (1958–1960) | Werner Eidner (1960–1964) | Lothar Stammnitz (1964–1989) | Rainer Dietze (1989–1990)
Hans Riesner (1952–1957) | Fritz Reuter (1957–1960) | Werner Krolikowski (1960–1973) | Hans Modrow (1973–1989) | Hansjoachim Hahn (1989–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reuter, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters and politicians (KPD, SED), MdV |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 2000 |
| Place of death | Berlin |