Hans Hellmich

Hans Hellmich (born August 8, 1904 in Weimar , † April 3, 1970 in Weimar) was a German politician ( SPD / SED ).

Life

Hellmich came from an educated family of craftsmen . His father was a plasterer and managed a. a. a folk bookstore. After attending elementary school, he learned the trade of carpenter and from 1920 worked in a social-democratically oriented building works. In 1925 he was employed by the general local health insurance fund (AOK) in Weimar. In 1918 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and in 1923 the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). After a few years of unemployment , he attended the socialist folk high school in Tinz . Then he worked as an advertiser for the Thuringian publishing house . In 1930 he became chairman of the local SPD association in Weimar. From July 1931 he worked as a full-time secretary of the SAJ and the “ Kinderfreunde ” in Thuringia .

After the seizure of power of the Nazi party in 1933, he based his action " New Beginning ". The Gestapo targeted him and was imprisoned from 1934 to 1936 . After a further period of unemployment, he was obliged to work in the Weimar city administration . He illegally took part in a discussion group of social democratic couples. In 1942 he was drafted into Penal Division 999 , from which he withdrew unnoticed at the end of the war.

After liberation from National Socialism in 1945, he became a member of the Federation of Democratic Socialists (BDS) and then of the SPD. On January 17, 1946, he gave a speech at a meeting of functionaries of the local groups of both parties in the hall of the Volkshaus in preparation for the unification of the SPD and KPD . In the same year he became one of the mayors of Weimar and took part in a committee to prepare the unification of the workers' parties. After attending the state party school in 1950, he became head of the department for culture at the Erfurt District Council and, from 1954, secretary of the district's Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF). His last professional position was as head of culture in the Erfurt-Nord district.

literature

• Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 , = publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 551

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919-1952 . Böhlau Verlag 2014, ISBN 9783412221799
2. ↑ Gitta Günther / Lothar Wallraf (eds.): History of the City of Weimar , Weimar 1975, p. 660