Hans Luebeck

Hans Lübeck (born July 12, 1908 in Bremen , † January 16, 1992 in Berlin ) was a German political functionary ( KPD ).

Life and activity

Lübeck was the son of an employee. He completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller and then worked in this profession.

In 1926 Lübeck joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), but switched to the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) in 1927 , to join the Communist Party in 1928. From then on, he took on official duties in the KPD: first he became district manager of the KJVD Weser-Ems and in 1930 he was accepted as a member of the central committee of the KJVD.

From 1930 to 1931 Lübeck was a student at the KJI School in Moscow. In 1931 he returned to Germany, where he headed the KPD youth secretariat in the Niederrhein district until May 1931. He then became a KJVD instructor in the Halle-Merseburg district. In 1932 he was recalled to Moscow, from where he was employed as an instructor in the Western European office of the KJI in Belgium and Austria. Following the disempowerment of Heinz Neumann and Kurt Müller , Lübeck became Reich Spy Head in the Central Committee of the KJVD in September 1932.

After the National Socialists came to power in spring 1933, Lübeck was arrested in Berlin in November 1933. On June 1, 1934, the Königsberg district court sentenced him to two years in prison. After serving the same, he worked as an electric welder at a Bremen shipyard.

In 1937 Lübeck went to Czechoslovakia, where he worked as a home manager in the Teplitz-Schönau emigrant camp. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, he was arrested and taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In March 1942 he was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison by the Dresden Regional Court .

In 1945 Lübeck became editor of the Franconian Press in Bayreuth . He then acted from 1947 to 1948 as secretary of the KPD in Bayreuth and as a city councilor there. In 1949 he was delegated by the KPD regional leadership of Bavaria to study at the party college "Karl Marx" in Kleinmachnow.

In 1951 Lübeck moved to the GDR . There he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and editor of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk in Leipzig. From 1958 he worked as an editor at the ADN district editorial office in Erfurt and from 1961 as an editor at ADN in East Berlin . In 1978 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.

family

From 1930 to 1935 Lübeck was married to Käthe Fürst, who was also politically active for the KPD and was later known as Käthe Popall .

literature

• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , pp. 562-563 ( online ).