Heinrich Kammerahl

Heinrich ("Heinz") Kammerahl (born March 15, 1893 in Wesermünde ; † May 17, 1971 ) was a German politician ( SPD / SED ) and trade unionist .

Life

Kammerahl, son of a dock worker, learned the profession of plumber and fitter after eight years of elementary school education . In 1913 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV). From 1914 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War .

Between 1918 and 1933 Kammerahl held numerous important political and trade union functions. He was sub-district chairman of the USPD for Bremerhaven , from 1924 - as successor to Heinrich Jensen - sub-party secretary of the SPD Unterweser, mayor in Lehe and Wesermünde and, for two years, a works council member at Norddeutscher Lloyd and ADGB chairman in Bremerhaven. Kammerahl was also the leader of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Wesermünde and a member of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Kammerahl took part in the anti-fascist resistance . On March 3, 1933, two days before the Reichstag election , he took part in a demonstration by the SPD and KPD against fascism from Bremerhaven to Lehe. On the Leher Neumarkt he gave his last big speech against fascism. "With the ballot we will defeat them," he exclaimed. Kammerahl was arrested on May 2, 1933 as part of the break-up of the trade unions and held in so-called “ protective custody ” until 1936 . After he was released, he was temporarily under police supervision. In 1944 he was arrested again and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

After the liberation Kammerahl was first mayor in Gölsdorf and Seyda (Sachsen-Anhalt) and SPD party secretary of the sub-district Wittenberg - Zerbst and then to April 1946 in Bernburg . In 1946 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From April to December 1946 Kammerahl acted as first chairman of the SED district board in Bernburg, from December 1946 as first chairman of the SED district board in Halle-Merseburg and in 1948/49 as first chairman of the SED district leadership in Halle-Merseburg. In the summer of 1949 he was briefly the second secretary of the SED city leadership in Halle (Saale) , and then attended the party school in Kleinmachnow. In 1950 he worked for a short time on the SED state executive. From 1950 to August 1951 he was First Secretary of the State Executive Committee of the National Front in Saxony-Anhalt. In 1946 Kammerahl was elected to the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt , of which he was a member until 1950. There he worked in the rules of procedure committee and in the social policy committee. Later he worked for the SED district newspaper "Freiheit" . As such, he was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit in 1963 .

literature

• Handbook of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt . Halle (Saale) 1947, p. 218.
• 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 Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 942.
• 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. 373.
• Arndt Groß: Kammerahl, Heinrich (Heinz) (1893–1971), German Metalworkers Association, ADGB . In: Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz (ed.): Trade unionists in the concentration camps Oranienburg and Sachsenhausen . Volume 1. Metropal, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89468-268-X , p. 209.
• Christina Trittel: The members of the first state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt 1946–1950. The failure of democratic hope . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-444-7 , p. 59f.

Web links

• IG Metall Bremerhaven, website on the history of the labor movement in Bremerhaven [1] .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Wedemeier: Wanted and enforced: The SPD parliamentary group of the state of Bremen from the turn of the century to the present . Leske and Budrich, Leverkusen-Opladen 1983, ISBN 3-8100-0447-2 , p. 169.
2. ↑ Martin Gohlke, Burkhard Hergesell: The occupation of the trade union houses in May 1933 by the National Socialists in Bremen and Bremerhaven ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . DGB Region Bremen / Bremerhaven, Bremen 2008, p. 21. 
3. ↑ SED city administration Halle (inventory) in the “Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt”  in the German Digital Library
4. ↑ State Council awarded high awards . In: Neues Deutschland , April 9, 1963, p. 2.