Hans Mickinn

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Hans Mickinn (born March 26, 1908 in Berlin , † February 25, 1981 in Leipzig ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and a party and sports functionary in the GDR .

Life

Mickin, the son of a nurse, grew up in an orphanage and later with foster parents. His brother was Walter Mickin , later an architect and communist resistance fighter during the Nazi era. After attending the community school in Berlin, he learned the trade of a construction worker from 1922 to 1926. After his apprenticeship, he worked as a construction worker in Luckau, then, with interruptions, at various companies in Berlin, most recently as an office messenger at the New German Publishing House until early 1933 .

Mickinn became a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) in 1927 and from 1928 took an active part in the “Fichte” workers' sports club in Berlin-Brandenburg and was the club's state youth leader. Mickinn became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1929 and was active in the Kampfgemeinschaft für Rote Sporteinheit (KGRS). He was a member of the Reich leadership and the Berlin-Brandenburg regional leadership of the KGRS.

After the start of National Socialism in 1933, he was illegally active in politics. After the arrest of the illegal Reich leadership of the Kampfgemeinschaft für Rote Sporteinheit in October 1933, Alfred Neumann , Karl Maron and Hans Mickinn took over the tasks of those arrested. He, too, was arrested on January 14, 1935 and sentenced on February 11, 1936 by the first senate of the People's Court together with Erich Quade to life imprisonment for “preparing for high treason” . He served the sentence from March 1936 to March 1939 in Luckau prison and then in Brandenburg prison .

On April 27, 1945 he was freed from prison by the Red Army , went to Berlin and became active again in the KPD. The party sent him to the German People's Police , where he became first chairman of the works council of the Berlin police. In June 1945 he was elected chairman of the section at the founding assembly of the Police Section (Section 5) of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB).

Mickinn became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in 1946 and in the same year head of the department (from 1948 main department) personnel of the German Administration of the Interior (DVdI) with the rank of VP inspector (colonel). In March 1948 he was replaced by Richard Wenzel . After attending the “Karl Marx” party college in 1948/49, he was cultural director and deputy plant manager of the Hennigsdorf steel and rolling mill from 1950 to 1953. At the same time he was from 1951 to 1954 member of the Presidium of the Kulturbund . From 1953 to 1957 he was the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Königs Wusterhausen .

When the German Gymnastics and Sports Association (DTSB) was founded in April 1957, he took on the role of Vice President for agitation and propaganda. After the Politburo decision on questions of physical culture and sport of January 20, 1959, he was released from his functions in mid-1959. Mickinn was then appointed as the first deputy chairman of the council of the Berlin-Weißensee district . After all, from 1968 to 1978 he was a research assistant at the German University for Physical Culture in Leipzig.

Mickinn died at the age of 72 and was buried in the honor grove of the south cemetery in Leipzig .

Awards

literature

  • Andreas Herbst u. a. (Ed.): This is how the GDR worked , Volume 3: Lexicon of Functionaries . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 229.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11130-4 , p. 545 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Andreas Herbst , Christine Krauss, Daniel Küchenmeister (eds.): The parties and organizations of the GDR: A manual, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-320-01988-0 , pp. 1029f.
  • Hans-Joachim Fieber, Oliver Reschke: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon, Volume 12 . trafo Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89626-368-4 , pp. 125f.
  • Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The "other" capital of the Reich: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-936872-94-5 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Senate of Berlin (ed.): Series of publications on contemporary history in Berlin, Volume 1 . Landesarchiv Berlin, 1961, p. 160.
personal data
SURNAME Mickinn, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party functionary (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1981
Place of death Leipzig