Heinz Lippmann

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Heinz Lippmann (1952)

Heinz Bernhard Lippmann (born October 24, 1921 in Berlin ; † August 11, 1974 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg ) was a descendant of a Jewish family. During the Third Reich , his family was almost completely killed. Lippmann was able to survive in concentration camps. After the war, Lippmann lived in the GDR and participated in the development of the state. He became an FDJ functionary. In the 1950s he was Erich Honecker's deputy head of the Free German Youth (FDJ). When, after the uprising of June 17, 1953, it became apparent that a Stalinist cleansing process by the SED was to be opened against Lippmann and others , he fled via West Berlin to Hamburg, taking with him 300,000 German marks from the FDJ's assets. In the West, Lippmann worked as a publicist on the history of the GDR.

Life

Lippmann was the son of a factory owner of Jewish descent. His father made lighting items and electric lamps. He died shortly after giving birth. The factory was continued by his brother Paul. His mother Elisabeth Hertzog married again. Her second husband Georg Lewinsohn also came from a Jewish family. From 1931 Lippmann attended the Luisenstädtische Realgymnasium. After the seizure of power , Lippmann was a first-degree hybrid according to the Nazi diction . Lippmann was excluded from the Hitler Youth and from his rowing club Undine. In his school Lippmann was not admitted to the Abitur, but had to leave the grammar school in 1938. He began an apprenticeship in women's clothing. The Lippmann family was expropriated during the Reichspogromnacht . The women's clothing store was also destroyed, so that Lippmann had to work as an unskilled worker. While most of his family was murdered, he was conscripted for the Hermann Göring Works. After a failed escape to Switzerland, Lippmann was imprisoned by the Gestapo. There he and his friends were mistreated. The Gestapo ordered his imprisonment in the Großbeeren , Auschwitz-Monowitz and Buchenwald concentration camps from 1942 to 1945.

After the liberation he joined the KPD in 1945 and became a member of the SED in 1946 when the SPD and KPD were forced to merge. In 1945/46 he was an employee of the public education administration in Thuringia. He was a co-founder of the anti-fascist youth committee and the FDJ in Thuringia and a member of the central council of the FDJ. From 1946 to 1948 he was secretary for culture and education of the FDJ regional management in Thuringia. Then he moved to Berlin, to the FDJ Central Council. There he was first org-secretary and from 1949 secretary of the central council and responsible for the construction of the western department and for the work of the FDJ in the Federal Republic until the ban in June 1951. After that he was responsible for directing the illegal work until 1952 the West FDJ. From 1949 to 1952 he was also a member of the Western Commission of the Politburo of the SED. In 1951 he became a member of the central board of the VVN . In 1952 he became the deputy of the FDJ chairman Erich Honecker, responsible for organization, finances, international affairs, the barracked people's police and the organization Service for Germany . He was a member of the Bureau of the Presidium of the National Council of the National Front and the State Committee on Physical Culture.

After the political dismantling of his sponsor Franz Dahlem and because of personal fear of threats in connection with the Rudolf Slansky Trial in Prague and after an unsuccessful sabotage action by the FDJ, which was intended to disrupt the federal elections on September 6, 1953, he fled on September 20 1953 in the Federal Republic. He took 300,000 D-Marks from the FDJ coffers. Thereupon he was expelled from the FDJ on September 30, 1953 for "hostile activity, immoral conduct and embezzlement of association funds". After his escape, an investigation was opened against him. In 1956 he was sentenced to nine months probation in Frankfurt (Main) for embezzlement. A high treason trial against him before the Federal Court of Justice was overturned in 1957 according to his testimony against KP and FDJ functionaries.

In 1959 he founded the magazine Der third Weg , which was co-financed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and illegally distributed in the GDR. It had to be discontinued in 1964 because of exposure. Lippmann had been a member of the SPD since 1963. He was an employee of Deutsche Welle . From 1973 he worked at the All-German Institute in Bonn.

Lippmann has been watched by the Stasi since it was founded . He died in Bad Godesberg in 1974 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinz Lippmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Herms: Heinz Lippmann - portrait of a deputy. With a foreword by Hermann Weber . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-320-01869-8 . Pp. 22-33.
  2. ^ Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein: Heinz Lippmann - portrait of a deputy
personal data
SURNAME Lippmann, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lippmann, Heinz Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German FDJ functionary and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1974
Place of death bad Godesberg