Gerhard Reinhardt

Gerhard Reinhardt (born May 4, 1916 in Werdau ; † August 22, 1989 ) was a German politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Reinhardt came from a family of textile workers and learned the trade of machine fitter himself , after which he went on a journey through various European countries (including France, Switzerland and Austria). In 1930 he joined the KJVD .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Reinhardt was active in the resistance. Reinhardt was arrested and a 1936 prison sentence convicted, he in prison Waldheim spent. Between 1939 and 1942 he worked as a machine worker in Werdau before he was drafted into the penalty battalion 999 in 1942. In August 1943 he joined the Greek partisans . He was one of the founding members of the Anti-Fascist Committee Free Germany in Greece and then its representative for the XIII. ELAS division. He was captain in the Greek People's Liberation Army ELAS before in Yugoslavia III officer of the Second Austrian Freedom Battalion in. Yugoslav Army was.

In the summer of 1945 he returned to Germany and in 1946 became a member of the SED . He was initially an employee in the country u. Ministry of Forestry and Ministry of the Interior, before he was secretary of the central committee for youth consecration from 1961 to 1963 and later secretary of the central management of the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters .

literature

• Penal Division 999: Experiences and reports from the anti-fascist resistance struggle . German Military Publishing House, Berlin 1965, p. 332.
• Andreas Herbst et al. (Ed.): This is how the GDR worked . Volume 3: Lexicon of Functionaries . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994, p. 271.
• Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan et al. (Ed.): The parties and organizations of the GDR. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 2002, p. 1060.
• Gottfried Hamacher et al. (Ed.): Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. Short biographies (series: Manuscripts / Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung; vol. 53) (PDF; 894 kB) Dietz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-320-02941-X , p. 171.