Fritz Uschner

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Fritz Uschner (born December 3, 1910 in Dresden ; † September 3, 1966 ) was a German party functionary of the SED . He was a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED and a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Uschner was born in December 1910 into a working class family from Dresden. After attending elementary school, he learned the trade of a mechanic, in which he also worked. In 1925 Uschner joined the SAJ , when he came of age he became a member of the SPD in 1928 . Like many Social Democrats, Uschner was temporarily imprisoned after the National Socialists came to power. Nevertheless, the Saxon was considered worthy of military service and served in the Wehrmacht from 1939 to 1945 . At the end of the war, Uschner ended up in Magdeburg , where he ran a small construction company until 1946. He also rejoined his old SPD party. Around 1950 he lived in Magdeburg's old town in Leibnitzstrasse 44 .

In the course of the unification of the KPD and SPD , Uschner was taken over into the SED in April 1946. He soon found employment within the party and was appointed second secretary of the SED district committee in Magdeburg. Some time later, Uschner moved to the SED state executive committee of Saxony-Anhalt, where he initially worked as a simple employee and later as a deputy department head. After some time he returned to the SED district leadership in Magdeburg, where he was again active as the second secretary. Uschner obviously left so much impression in his work that the SED state executive committee Saxony-Anhalt for the III. SED party congress , which took place in July 1950, proposed as a candidate for the newly created Central Committee of the SED. This proposal was also complied with at the party congress, and the Magdeburg resident was one of 81 top SED officials. Furthermore, Uschner was proposed to the Volkskammer election in October 1950 as a candidate for the SED of Saxony-Anhalt and was also elected accordingly.

As a result, however, Uschner was increasingly noticed by behaviors that did not correspond to the party line at the time and thus called the Central Party Control Commission (ZPKK) on the scene. According to the Politburo minutes, the main problem was Uschner's behavior after excessive alcohol consumption. The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED then initiated an investigation against Uschner on December 13, 1951. As a result, on January 31, 1952, a meeting of the SED district leadership in Magdeburg took place in the presence of the ZPKK chairman Hermann Matern , where Uschner was debated. After further investigation into the incidents, Uschner received a warning from the party on March 24, 1952 and was sent to the state party school for a course. When, in the opinion of the party, these measures were unsuccessful, it was decided to only invite Uschner to meetings of the Central Committee as a guest. Furthermore, Uschner was transferred to the SED district management in Cottbus as an instructor. After further incidents that were not acceptable to the party, the SED leadership transferred Uschner to the Chemnitz SED district leadership as an instructor. An event there broke the barrel for the party. When Stalin died on March 5, 1953 , memorial services lasted for days throughout the socialist world. Uschner, on the other hand, went to the bar in the well-known Chemnitzer Hotel Chemnitzer Hof on one of the following evenings and stayed there until the early morning. In a discussion that followed, Uschner was incapable of understanding the party's reading. Thereupon it was decided at the Politburo meeting of May 5, 1953 to expel Uschner from the party and to withdraw his seat in the People's Chamber. It was officially decided at the 13th meeting of the Central Committee of the SED on May 13 and 14, 1953, shortly thereafter. At this conference, Franz Dahlem , among others, was released from party functions. This decision was published in the SED central organ Neues Deutschland on May 20, 1953 in connection with the expulsion of Lena Fischer from the party and the dismissal of Hans Lauter . The reason given by Uschner was "immoral behavior".

As a result, the excluded initially found a job with the Social Insurance Chamber in Magdeburg, later he worked for VEB Binnenreederei Magdeburg. After Khrushchev's speech at the 20th party congress of the CPSU had begun a rethink in the SED, the ZPKK was commissioned to review its decisions from the early 1950s. As part of the review, Uschner was rehabilitated and accepted back into the party at the 29th meeting of the SED Central Committee from November 12 to 14, 1956. At the Politburo conference on October 9, 1956, the following was noted: The use of party education measures, combined with the withdrawal of his function as a candidate for the Central Committee and a member of the People's Chamber, would have been sufficient even then.

Uschner died on September 3, 1966 at the age of 55.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address book of the city of Magdeburg 1950 - 51 , Part I, p. 624.
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland from July 25, 1950, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, September 24, 1950, p. 3.
  4. ^ Minutes of the Politburo meeting of May 5, 1953 at the Federal Archives
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland from May 20, 1953, p. 3f.
  6. ^ Minutes of the Politburo meeting of October 9, 1956, p. 17.
personal data
SURNAME Uschner, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1966