Heinrich Schliestedt

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Heinrich Schliestedt (born January 18, 1883 in Hohnstedt ; † August 13, 1938 in Alsace) was a German politician ( SPD ), trade union official ( DMV ) and resistance fighter .

Life

Heinrich Schliestedt learned the trade of locksmith. From 1910 he was a member of the DMV main board. From 1910 to 1919 he was a managing director for the DMV in Remscheid , where he was also a city councilor for the SPD. As secretary of the DMV he succeeded in May 1933, together with DMV chairman Alwin Brandes , Max Urich , Willy Rößler , Richard Teichgräber and a few other functionaries, to save typewriters and duplicating machines from access by the Nazis. After the demolition of the DMV, Brandes, Schliestedt, Urich, Rößler and Teichgräber built up a comparatively large informal network of contacts from the former association from autumn 1933, with whom they exchanged messages and supplied them with leaflets and other documents with the help of the rescued devices .

Heinrich Schliestedt was also a leading member of the Illegal Reich Leadership of the Trade Unions (IRL). He can be seen as the central person in the network of illegal metalworkers. One of his goals was to build a network of shop stewards. This network should serve to collect information about the mood in the workforce and the operational situation. This information was incorporated into pamphlets produced in exile in the Czech Republic.

The trade unionist and resistance activist Schliestedt also had connections to other trade union resistance groups and illegal SPD circles. In 1935/36 part of the trade union resistance group of the DMV was rolled up by the Gestapo . Schliestedt had fled to Komotau (Chomutov) in Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1934. After his escape, Max Urich in particular took an exposed position in the coordination of the resistance from the ranks of the metal trade unionists. In a conspiratorial manner, Schliestedt attempted to set up a foreign representation of German trade unions (ADG) from Komotau from 1935 onwards .

Schliestedt continued to try to promote the illegal organizations in the Reich with the help of funds from the international trade union movement and to enable a conspiratorial reconstruction of the DMV. The General Secretary of the International Federation of Trade Unions, Walter Schevenels, supported him in developing the ADG into a federation of German trade unions in exile .

On the way to a meeting of illegal trade unionists (3rd ADG foreign conference in Mulhouse / Alsace), he died in a plane crash.

literature

  • Heinrich Schliestedt . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, pp. 265-266.
  • Siegfried Mielke : Heinrich Schliestedt (1883–1938) , In: Siegfried Mielke, Stefan Heinz (ed.) With the collaboration of Julia Pietsch: Emigrierte Metallgewerkschafter in the fight against the Nazi regime (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 3). Metropol, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86331-210-7 , pp. 307–333.
  • Willy Buschak : “Work in the smallest circle.” Trade unions in the resistance against National Socialism. Hamburg 1992.
  • Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz (eds.) With the assistance of Marion Goers: Functionaries of the German Metalworkers' Association in the Nazi state. Resistance and persecution (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - resistance - emigration. Volume 1). Metropol, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-059-2 , pp. 11-49.
  • Michael Ruck : Schliestedt, Heinrich (1883–1938). In: A. Thomas Lane et al. a. (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders. Volume 2. Westport, Ct./London 1995, ISBN 0-313-29900-5 , pp. 857-858.
  • Biographical Lexicon of Socialism Volume I Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. GmbH Hannover pp. 265–266

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical traveling exhibitions: The German political emigration 1933–1945. In: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , archive of social democracy .
personal data
SURNAME Schliestedt, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), union official, resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohnstedt
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1938
Place of death Alsace