Hans Jendretzky

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Hans Jendretzky (1947)
Hans Jendretzky at the 2nd FDGB Congress in Berlin, 1947
Hans Jendretzky at a youth consecration, 1972.

Gustav Ernst Hans Jendretzky (* July 20, 1897 in Berlin ; † July 2, 1992 there ) was a German politician ( USPD , KPD , SED ) in the Weimar Republic and the GDR .

Life

As the son of the book printer Carl Gustav Jendretzky and Eugenie Flora Jenny geb. Bernhard was born to Hans Jendretzky at Strelitzer Strasse 15. After finishing school, he completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith . In 1919 he joined the USPD, a year later he switched to the KPD, whose full-time functionary he became in 1926. He headed the Red Front Fighter League in Berlin and was a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1928 to 1932 . In 1933/34 he was a member of the KPD district leadership in Berlin. In 1934 he was arrested by the Nazis and sentenced to three years in prison for “preparing for high treason”. He served his imprisonment in Luckau prison , after which he was admitted to Sachsenhausen concentration camp and not released until 1938. Then he was able to work as a locksmith again. In 1943/44 he worked in the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization , whereupon he was arrested again in August 1944. In October 1944 he was sentenced to three years in prison by the People's Court and served the sentence in Brandenburg prison and in Nuremberg. In April 1945 he was able to flee.

After the end of the war, Jendretzky took part in the rebuilding of the KPD and was a co-signer of the KPD's appeal of June 11, 1945. In the Berlin magistrate , he took over the management of the labor department , which was responsible for labor deployment. In 1946 he was a co-founder of the FDGB in the Soviet occupation zone and until 1948 its chairman. From 1948 to 1953 he was in charge of the Berlin SED. Jendretzky was also a member of the executive committee of the party as a whole and from 1950 a candidate for the Politburo .

His political rise was slowed down in 1953 after he was relieved of his functions as a supporter of the Zaisser - Herrnstadt group after the uprising on June 17th . In August 1953 he was replaced by Alfred Neumann as 1st secretary of the SED district leadership in Berlin . He then worked until September 1957 as chairman of the council of the Neubrandenburg district . After the XX. At the CPSU party convention in 1956, he was rehabilitated, and in February 1957 he was co-opted with Alexander Abusch and Franz Dahlem as a member of the Central Committee of the SED . In February 1958 he was appointed to succeed Franz Peplinski as deputy minister of the interior and state secretary for affairs of the local councils. In 1960/61 he was State Secretary and Head of the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers , and from November 1961 to May 1963 Minister and Head of the Central Commission for State Control (successor to Ernst Wabra ). From May 1963 to 1965 he worked as a member of the Presidium and Secretary of the Federal Board of the FDGB .

Hans Jendretzky was a member of the People's Chamber from 1950 to 1954 and again from 1958. In 1965 he took over the chairmanship of the FDGB parliamentary group. He then had to give up all party offices and mandates during the transition and peaceful revolution in the GDR .

His first wife was the worker Margareta Michaelis. This marriage ended in divorce in 1932 after twelve years. His second wife was the well-known actress Marta Husemann († 1960), the third wife was the judge Irmgard Jendretzky nee. Eisermann (1918–2010), who was sentenced to four years in prison in 1997 for the Waldheim trials . Both are buried in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin.

Honors

Publications

  • Produce more! Distribute correctly! Live better! Berlin 1947.
  • Prague, the first but decisive step. Berlin 1947.
  • The new German trade unions and November 9, 1918. Berlin 1948.
  • with Paul Lähne : The tasks of the unions in the mining industry. Berlin 1948.
  • New German trade union policy. Presented in speeches and contributions. Berlin 1948.
  • The reparations question. Berlin 1948.
  • You rush - we build. For the unity of Berlin, against the split elections. Berlin 1948.
  • Berlin development plan - a peace plan for all of Germany. Berlin 1951.
  • On some tasks of the local organs of state power in the seven-year plan. Berlin 1960.
  • The trade union struggle for peace, unity and socialism 1945–1948. From speeches and essays. Berlin 1961.
  • The new tasks of state and social control. Berlin 1962.
  • Unity is the rock on which the future of the working class rests. Memories of important stages in my work in the labor movement. Berlin 1987.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Berlin XI No. 2104/1897 .
  2. ^ New Germany of August 9, 1953
  3. ^ New Germany of February 3, 1957
  4. ^ New Germany of February 16, 1958
  5. ^ New Germany of November 28, 1961
  6. ↑ New Germany of May 16, 1963
  7. ↑ Marriage register StA Berlin-Steglitz No. 385/1920 .
  8. ↑ Marriage register of the StA Berlin-Schöneberg II No. 327/1938 .
  9. ↑ Marriage register StA Berlin-Pankow No. 13/1961 .
  10. ↑ Irmgard Jendretzky. Retrieved March 1, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Jendretzky, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jendretzky, Gustav Ernst Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anti-fascist resistance fighter and politician (USPD, KPD, SED), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 1992
Place of death Berlin