Hans Oscar Margon
Hans Oscar Margon (also: (Hans) Oskar Margon ; * April 10, 1911 ; † March 24, 1976 in Berlin ) was a German fighter in Spain , a member of the Free Germany movement in Mexico and an economic functionary in the GDR .
Life
Margon emigrated to France in 1933 and then to Spain , where he became a member of the United Socialist Party of Catalonia ( Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya , PSUC) in 1936 . He took part in the Spanish Civil War on the part of the Republic as an interpreter and political commissioner for the International Brigades. He was later interned in France, including in Les Milles . Margon emigrated to Mexico at the end of 1941. He went on November 19, 1941 in Casablanca on board the Portuguese ship Serpa Pinto , which reached Veracruz on December 16, 1941 . In Mexico he was a member of the Free Germany Movement ( Alemania libre ) and its reception committee as well as the Heinrich Heine Club . Margon worked in Mexico for the journals Free Germany and Deutsche Post and was considered indispensable in the editorial team of Free Germany because of his knowledge of Spanish. Margon gave lectures at the Workers' University in Mexico and was also the spokesman for the Spanish radio broadcasts of the Latin American Committee of Free Germans.
In 1946 he returned to Germany, became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and from October 1948 was head of the reparations administration in the German Economic Commission . From 1949 he headed the Berlin trade organization . Later Margon was employed in the GDR's foreign trade.
Awards
- Hans Beimler Medal (1956)
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1971)
literature
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 511.
- Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, pp. 288 and 973.
- Gottfried Hamacher et al. (Ed.): Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. Short biographies (series: Manuscripts / Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung; Vol. 53) (PDF; 894 kB) Dietz, Berlin 2005, p. 136.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Kießling: Exile in Latin America . Reclam, Leipzig 1980, pp. 223f.
- ↑ Kießling (1980), p. 293.
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 28, 1971, p. 2.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Margon, Hans Oscar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Margon, Hans Oskar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter and GDR economic functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1911 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 1976 |
| Place of death | Berlin |