Gustav Artur village

Gustav Artur Dorf , short form: Artur Dorf (* July 17, 1908 in Barmen ; † October 27, 1972 in Berlin ) was deputy chairman of the Society for Sport and Technology in the GDR .

Life

Village, son of a mason was as a clerk operates. In 1926 he joined the KJVD . From 1929 he was a member of the KPD and worked as a functionary of the KJVD in Wuppertal . In 1930 he attended the KPD Reichsparteischule in Fichtenau . From 1931 he was editor of the Bergische Volksstimme and head of the KPD sub-district of Solingen , from 1932 of Hagen .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he was active in the communist resistance . He was arrested in August 1933, but was able to escape from Remscheid prison to the Netherlands on September 2, 1933 . He later emigrated to France and took part in the Spanish Civil War as an interbrigadist in Spain in 1936 on the side of the Republic . There he was from October 1936 to January 1937 Political Commissar of the Edgar André Battalion of the XI. International Brigade , from January to April 1937 finally Political Commissar of the XI. International Brigade. Later he was commissioner for international medical services.

After his return to France, Dorf was interned in the Gurs and Le Vernet camps in 1939, and later in Djelfa (North Africa) from 1941 to 1943 . In 1940 his German citizenship was revoked. In Algeria , the American Milton Wolff turned to Dorf in 1943 to win him over to the fight in Italy . In 1943/44 Dorf fought as a soldier on the side of the Allied forces in Italy and as a partisan of the Resistance . He also worked there for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

In July 1945 he returned to Germany. Until June 1946 he headed the police department of the Brandenburg provincial administration , from 1946 to 1950 he was a lecturer and head of department at the party college "Karl Marx" . From 1950 he was cultural director of the Stralsund shipyard . In 1951 he was employed as the cultural director of a folk estate until allegations were clarified . The cadre files of the International Brigades, forged by the former communist André Marty , were discussed in front of the Central Party Control Commission of the SED. The allegations were exposed as falsifications. In 1953 the allegations were dropped. After various functions in the party and trade union, Artur Dorf was from 1956 to 1968 deputy chairman of the central board of the Society for Sport and Technology for Agitation and Propaganda. In this role he was responsible for the political education of the youth during their pre-military training .

Artur village a received honorary grave in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde . His wife Helene Dorf and his son Jean-Claude Dorf were also buried there.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1958) and silver (1965)
• Banner of Labor (1968)
• Medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945

literature

• Patrik von zur Mühlen : Spain was your hope. The German Left in the Spanish Civil War 1936 to 1939 (PDF file; 9.7 MB). Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1983, ISBN 3-87831-375-6 , pp. 213, 230 and 232.
• Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 889.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 131.
• Matthias Brieger: Wehrmacht deserters in the Resistance (PDF file; 105 kB). In: Utopie Kreativ , issue 175 (May 2005), pp. 427–435 (on village, p. 430).
• 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 file; 873 kB) Dietz, Berlin 2005, p. 47.
• Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Village, Gustav Artur . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Michael Uhl: The Myth of Spain. The legacy of the International Brigades in the GDR . Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-8012-5031-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of May 7, 1965.