Georg Spielmann
Georg Spielmann (born October 9, 1908 in Königsberg ; † January 4, 1985 ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against Nazi rule , senior secretary of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN), vice-president of the Fédération Internationale des Résistants (FIR) , Member of the Presidium of the National Council of the National Front of the GDR and the League for Friendship of Nations .
Life
The son of a butcher learned after visiting the elementary school the profession of ship's carpenter . He joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) in 1922 and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1928 and was a member of the M apparatus of the KPD. In 1928 he moved to Hamburg and worked as a shipbuilder at Blohm & Voss . In 1930 he became editor of the Hamburger Volkszeitung . In 1932/33 he was an instructor or secretary of the KPD sub-district leadership in Kiel and an instructor of the KPD for the north German shipyards.
Since 1933 he has been doing illegal anti-fascist resistance work. In 1934 he was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison for preparation for high treason. After his dismissal in 1936, he worked as a shipbuilder at the Howalds shipyard in Kiel. In 1937 he was arrested again, taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938 and released in 1941. From 1941 to 1944 he worked as a shipbuilder at a shipyard in Königsberg. At the end of 1944 he went illegally, was arrested by the Feldgendarmerie in March 1945 and forced into the Wehrmacht. In April 1945 he defected to the Red Army when he was first deployed to the front. In Soviet captivity, he did educational work among German prisoners of war and became the Antifa leader of Camp 7294.
In June 1947 he returned to Germany, became a member of the SED and organizational secretary in the General Secretariat of the VVN. From 1949 to 1953 he was head of the western department of the VVN. From 1953 to 1971 he acted as secretary or chief secretary of the committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters of the GDR. From 1954 to 1972 he was a member of the FIR General Council and from March 22, 1959 to 1972 Vice President of the FIR. He had been a member of the Presidium of the National Council of the National Front since 1957 and a member of the Presidium of the League for Friendship of Peoples since 1966. Until his death he was a member of the presidium of the central management of the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters.
When he died in 1985, his ashes were in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery buried.
Awards
- Medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945
- Ernst Moritz Arndt Medal
- 1955 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1958 in silver and 1968 in gold
- 1965 Order Banner of Labor
- 1970 German Peace Medal
- 1978 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
literature
- Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Georg Spielmann . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany of March 23, 1959
- ↑ Heinz Koch, Udo Wohlfeld: The German beech forest committee. The period from 1945 to 1958 . Weimar 2010, ISBN 3-935275-14-5 , p. 192.
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| SURNAME | Spielmann, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political concentration camp prisoner, resistance fighter against the Nazi regime and VVN functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th January 1985 |