Georg Heidler

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Georg Heidler (born March 6, 1891 in Magdeburg ; † January 30, 1950 in Halle (Saale) ) was a KPD politician and was involved in the resistance against National Socialism .

Life

After attending elementary and middle school, Heidler learned a locksmith . In 1909 he joined a trade union. He was drafted into the Navy in 1912 , with which he remained until the end of the First World War in 1918. He took part in the Kiel sailors' uprising .

On his return to Magdeburg he became chairman of the works council of the Saccharinfabrik AG Magdeburg in Salbke . Later he was a fitter at Rudolf Wolf AG and the company John Fowler & Co. In 1920 Heidler joined the KPD. He lost his job during the Nazi era. In 1936 he started his own business as a tobacco merchant, which he remained until the end of the war in 1945. The shop and Heidler's apartment were at number 32 Jerichower Strasse in Magdeburg-Brückfeld .

Heidler was involved in the resistance against the National Socialists and was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 . There was a charge of treason . However, the ruling against him could no longer be carried out when the Allied troops moved into Magdeburg in April 1945. Heidler was released on April 13, 1945.

He then became an employee of the mayor appointed for the part of Magdeburg occupied by Soviet troops east of the Elbe . A short time later he became head of the department until the two parts of Magdeburg were then reunited as part of the Soviet zone of occupation .

Heidler was committed to the merger of the KPD and SPD to form the SED , which took place in 1946. In 1945 he took over the position of 1st Vice President of the Magdeburg district administration. After its dissolution, he became ministerial director of the personnel department of the government of Saxony-Anhalt . In this function he was involved in internal disputes. In January 1950, the State Party Control Commission (LPKK) demanded that Heidler, among others, be released from his position because he was not up to the task.

Heidler died on January 30, 1950 at the University Hospital in Halle as a result of a stomach problem.

Honor

During the GDR era, the city of Magdeburg named a street after him as Georg-Heidler-Straße , which still bears this name today.

literature

  • Short biographies of Magdeburg resistance fighters , presumably 1976, published by the Commission for Research into the History of the Local Labor Movement at the Magdeburg City Administration of the SED, Working Group Memories and Biographies , page 9 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Magdeburg address book for 1939
  2. ^ Frank Hirschinger, Gestapo Agents, Trotskyists, Traitors , 2005, ISBN 3-525-36903-4 , page 290
  3. ↑ Hirschinger, page 292
personal data
SURNAME Heidler, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1950
Place of death Halle (Saale)