Hans-Jürgen Westphal

Hans-Jürgen Westphal (2008)

Hans-Jürgen Westphal (2014)

Hans-Jürgen Westphal (born November 26, 1951 in Anklam ) is a Dresden political activist . Through his years of public presence in the city, where he almost daily with a flag of the Soviet Union for communism advertises, he was named "Man with the Red Flag " and "Communists from the Prague street known".

Life

Westphal, born in Anklam in 1951, attended school up to the 10th grade and then completed a two-year training as an electrician. He was then drafted into the NVA , where he did three years of military service in an anti-aircraft missile company. He then completed a three-year course to become an engineer-pedagogue at the Institute for the Training of Engineering Pedagogues Gotha (IIP Gotha). After working as an engineering pedagogue in the VEB Starkstromanlagenbau "Otto Buchwitz" Dresden , as head of the general administration of the Kreissparkasse Meißen and senior museum assistant at the Museum for the History of the City of Dresden (today Dresden City Museum ) Westphal worked for seven years in the VEB Kombinat Fruit, Vegetables and Table Potatoes (OGS ) Dresden as an energetic engineer, where he had been head of the energy and water management department of the combine since 1987. He then worked at VEB Kupplungswerk Dresden, the Dresden bread factory and most recently as a bookseller . From 1984 to 1989 he completed a distance learning course to become an engineer and economist in Dippoldiswalde . He has been unemployed since March 1992 and has since concentrated on his artistic and journalistic activities.

Since October 3, 1990, the day of German reunification , Westphal has been standing almost every day between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. with a flag of the Soviet Union on Prager Strasse in front of the Karstadt department store , promoting communism .

He writes communist essays and poems and produces brochures, calendars with pencil and ink drawings, radio plays and videos. His drawings were presented to the public in three exhibitions in Dresden. Westphal also supplied the drawings for the children's book "The Dove from St. Mark's Square".

With two other musicians he founded the communist rock band Veritas , in which Westphal is active as a singer, bassist, guitarist and with the flute. Most of the music and lyrics of the songs, which have been published on 20 CDs so far , come from Westphal.

On July 20, 2010, Westphal was attacked on the street and received a death threat. The scuffle was ended by two security employees.

On Westphal's initiative, the Fetscherstein was set in November 2013 near his usual location on Prager Strasse , an "F." carved into a pavement slab with the dimensions of the Napoleon stone known in Dresden . It recalls the murder of the doctor Rainer Fetscher on May 8, 1945. This was preceded by a study of the sources Westphal, during which he could not find any evidence for the recently raised thesis that Fetscher was involved in Nazi crimes.

Westphal has been married since 1975; the marriage resulted in two children.

Party membership

Westphal was a member of the SED since 1978 . In January 1994 he resigned from the SED successor party, the PDS , because it was no longer communist enough for him. From January 1994 until he was expelled from the party in September 1999, Westphal was a member of the KPD . On February 5, 2014 Westphal joined the German Communist Party (DKP). In 2018 he rejoined the KPD, which was founded in 1990, on whose state list he stood as a candidate in the Saxon state elections in 2019 .

Publications

• Zeus and the adversaries. GNN-Verlag , 1993, ISBN 3-929994-08-9
• In the residences. GNN-Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-929994-09-7
• It started with DT64. GNN-Verlag, ISBN 3-929994-20-8
• Limbo. GNN-Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-929994-21-6
• ... chaos nationwide. GNN-Verlag, 1994 ISBN 3-929994-24-0
• Against the Sisyphus complex. GNN-Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-929994-25-9
• For how much longer ...? GNN-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-929994-28-3
• Restoration. GNN-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-929994-51-8
• In the mill or an exchange of letters between two real young people of our time using real documents and materials. GNN-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-929994-62-3
• Nile deterius familiari inimico. GNN-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-929994-77-1
• News from Zeus. Dingsda-Verlag , ISBN 3-928498-28-2
• Stories from ancient China. Dingsda-Verlag, ISBN 3-928498-35-5
• Contemporaries. KPD publishing house
• The night before. KPD publishing house
• Ex fructu cognoscitur arbor. KPD publishing house
• Journey to Viernau. KPD publishing house
• For the 50th anniversary. KPD publishing house
• Dictatorship of the proletariat, now! , 2005
• Stand up! , 2006

Web links

Commons : Hans-Jürgen Westphal  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about Hans-Jürgen Westphal in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ An ideal world through the wall? In: sz-online.de . December 30, 2006, archived from the original on September 11, 2012 ; Retrieved September 7, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Veritas , kommunistische-kunst.de
3. ↑ Michael Bartsch:: The last Stalinist . In: taz.de from February 11, 2016.
4. ↑ Thanks from the man with the red flag . In: saechsische.de from August 4, 2010.
5. ↑ “Do you know him?” Profiles of urban eccentrics , neon.de, 2008
6. ↑ Dresden's most famous communist ( memento of the original from December 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , woschod.de, 2009 
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} http://www.kommunistische-kunst.de/Steh%20auf.pdf ( Memento from September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 176 kB), communist-art .de, September 4, 2006
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e} topless for the revolution , taz.de, January 15, 2011
9. ↑ Thanks from the man with the red flag , sz-online.de, August 4, 2010
10. ^ West-East Divan 1 . In: youtube.com from August 9, 2015.
11. ↑ Vote KPD! State election in Saxony 2019 . In: youtube.com from August 13, 2019.