Gerhard Danelius

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Danelius (2nd from right) at the Seventh Party Congress of the SED in Berlin in 1967

Gerhard Danelius (born April 2, 1913 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ; † May 18, 1978 in Berlin ) was a German politician (KPD / SED / SED-W / SEW).

Life

Danelius was the son of a building plumber. His older brother was the resistance fighter Ditmar Danelius . Two of his four siblings and his parents were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp . Danelius learned the trade of a travel agent in a linen factory in Berlin from 1927 to 1929. In 1927 he became a member of the KJVD and in 1929 the KPD . He was an employee of the KP central organ " Red Flag ". From 1930 to 1933 he was the organ leader of the Red Young Front in the sub-district of Prenzlauer Berg , Pankow and Weißensee (unemployed at the time). In 1933 he was arrested for the first time by the SA, and he escaped his second arrest by emigrating to France. He lived in emigration for 15 months. In 1934, after a discussion with the party leadership, he returned to Berlin to take part in the resistance against National Socialism there. Danelius went into hiding in Berlin and worked in the resistance groups Jaeschke , Jakubowski , Husemann ( Walter and Marta Husemann) and Saefkow until 1945 . In the period from 1934 to 1942 he hired himself as an iron and transport worker.

In Berlin-Karow , Danelius received the advancing Red Army on April 21, 1945 and made himself available to them as a local expert until the fall of Berlin. Shortly thereafter until 1946 he was district chairman in Berlin-Karow at the district office Pankow, then secretary of the district committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in Berlin-Mitte . From 1948 Danelius became chairman of the SED district executive board Berlin-Tempelhof and from 1949 first secretary of the SED district leadership Berlin-Friedrichshain . In 1950/51 he studied at the SED party college "Karl Marx" and was temporarily instructor of the SED Central Committee of the KPD party executive. From 1956 to 1959 he was again First Secretary of the SED district leadership in Berlin-Friedrichshain. From 1959 to 1960 Danelius was a member of the commission for all-German work at the Politburo (chairman of this commission was the Politburo member Albert Norden ). From 1959 to 1962 he was an employee, member and secretary for Berlin (West) of the SED district leadership for Greater Berlin. From November 1962 to February 1969 he was first secretary or chairman (from 1966) of the SED West Berlin (SED-W), then until his death chairman of the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin (SEW).

Gerhard Danelius died on May 18, 1978 in the government hospital of the GDR in East Berlin , his burial took place on May 29 in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery in West Berlin.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ See the tabular curriculum vitae of Danelius (February 1973), in: SAPMO-BArch, DY 30 / SED vorl. 26715; Andreas Herbst: Gerhard Danelius, in: Müller-Enbergs, Helmut / Wielgohs, Jan / Hoffmann, Dieter / Herbst, Andreas / Kirschey-Feix, Ingrid (ed.): Who was who in the GDR? A biographical lexicon, Berlin 2010; Heike Amos: The SED's Western Policy 1948 / 1949-1961. "Arbeit nach Westdeutschland" by the National Front, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for State Security, Berlin 1999, pp. 291–294; Olav Teichert: The Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin. Investigation of the control of SEW by the SED (PDF; 9.3 MB), Kassel 2011 (Zugl .: Kassel, Univ., Diss., 2010), ISBN 978-3-89958-994-8 , pp. 61, 119 .
personal data
SURNAME Danelius, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SEW)
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Wilmersdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1978
Place of death Berlin-Wilmersdorf