Herbert Mies

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Herbert Mies, 1987
Herbert Mies (left) welcomed Horst Sindermann in 1986 to the Bonn representation of the DKP party executive. On the right Hermann Gautier , deputy chairman of the DKP

Herbert Mies (born February 23, 1929 in Mannheim-Waldhof ; † January 14, 2017 in Mannheim-Schönau ) was a German politician . From 1973 to 1990 he was chairman of the German Communist Party (DKP).

Life

Mies' father worked as a stoker before the Second World War and as a railroad worker after 1945; he was a member of the KPD until 1933 . After eight years of elementary school , Herbert Mies attended a teacher training institute for a year and a half . In 1944 he had to leave her again because of his refusal to report as a reserve officer applicant.

After liberation from National Socialism in 1945, Herbert Mies joined the union and became a member of the KPD. In 1946, he trained as a journalist at the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung in Heidelberg. Mies studied from 1947 to 1949 at the party college "Karl Marx" of the SED and from 1956 to 1959 social and administrative science . From 1961 to 1963 he trained as a typesetter .

From 1949 to 1953 he was a member of the central office and until 1956 chairman of the “FDJ in West Germany”, which was banned as anti-constitutional . During this time he had his first contact with Erich Honecker . Mies had been a member of the party executive committee (later the central committee) since 1954 and a candidate and secretary of the KPD's Politburo since 1963. In 1954, Klaus Rainer Röhl founded the magazine Studentenkurier with his help .

In the course of the talks about the re-admission of a communist party in the Federal Republic of Germany, Mies and other KPD functionaries were exempt from punishment by the Federal Republic of Germany's judiciary and returned to West Germany . Mies became deputy chairman of the newly founded DKP in 1969 and was its chairman from 1973 to 1990. In 1987 he was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize. In 1987, during a joint visit to Moscow, Honecker said: " SED and DKP speak with one voice, Herbert [Mies] actually belongs to our Politburo." A room was always reserved for Mies in the SED guest house in Rostock-Warnemünde (Haus Stolteraa) .

Even after its discovery in 1990, Mies denied the existence of the secret DKP military organization . In the spring of 1989 he himself had declared the dissolution of the military organization because there were no longer enough suitable DKP members.

After the peaceful revolution against the SED dictatorship in the GDR and the end of the financing of the DKP by the SED, he resigned as party chairman in 1990. Until 1997, Mies was chairman of the Mannheim discussion group on history and politics and chairman of the Mannheim-Schönau workers' welfare organization .

Mies in 1994 together with Kurt Fritsch for a few days in Beugehaft taken after both before Schalk Commission of Inquiry on the financing of DKP through the GDR which denied testimony had.

The funeral service for Mies with subsequent urn burial took place on January 27, 2017 at the Mannheim-Sandhofen cemetery . Herbert Mies' wife was Gerda Mies. She in turn was the sister of Heinz Eichler and Hildegard Kiermeier . She herself died on January 6, 2018 and is also buried in the Mannheim-Sandhofen cemetery.

Fonts

  • Report of the party executive of the DKP to the Hamburg party congress 2-4. November 1973. Rapporteur Herbert Mies . Plambeck & Co Druck u. Publishing house, Neuss 1973
  • With the DKP for a price freeze and job security, for peace and social progress. Presentation by Herbert Mies, chairman of the German Communist Party, at the LLL meeting of the DKP in Solingen, January 18, 1975 . Ed .: Party Executive Board d. DKP, Ref. Public Relations; Responsible: Gerd Humbach. Plambeck & Co Druck u. Publishing house, Neuss 1975
  • with Hermann Gauthier: We Communists and the Basic Law . 2nd edition. Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt am Main 1977
  • To the politics of the DKP. Selected speeches and essays . Verlag Marxistische Blätter Frankfurt / M. 1979 ISBN 3-88012-581-3
  • Path and goal of the DKP. Questions u. Answers to the program of the German Communist Party . Herbert Mies, Willi Gerns . Conversation, Robert Steigerwald . Marxist sheets publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1979.
  • Turn right? Review and outlook after 13 years of SPD government . Marxist sheets publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1983.
  • Externally determined? Dependency and independence of the DKP . Mannheim 1995. ISBN 3-931208-00-1
  • Ed .: We all want the same thing - home! Mannheim 1997
  • With one goal in mind. From young to old communists. Memories . Verlag am Park in Edition Ost , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89793-179-4

Web links

Commons : Herbert Mies  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ lim: Former DKP boss is dead. In: Mannheimer Morgen. January 16, 2017, accessed on February 5, 2017 : "Herbert Mies, the former chairman of the German Communist Party (DKP), is dead. According to his daughter, he died on Saturday with his family in Mannheim, where he was born."
  2. ↑ a b Herbert Mies , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 22/1997 from May 19, 1997 (lö) Supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 32/1999, in the Munzinger archive , accessed on November 23, 2015 ( beginning of article freely available)
  3. ↑ lim: Former DKP boss is dead. In: Mannheimer Morgen. January 16, 2017, accessed on February 5, 2017 : "In 1946 Mies trained as a journalist at the" Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung "in Heidelberg."
  4. ↑ Udo Baron: Cold war and hot peace: the influence of the SED and its West German allies on the party "The Greens" . Lit Verlag, 2003, also dissertation at the Technical University of Chemnitz 2002, p. 41.
  5. ^ Lenin Peace Prize presented to Herbert Mies . Documentation of the speeches by Prof. Blochin and Herbert Mies. Published by the Executive Committee of the German Communist Party, Public Relations Department. Responsible: Gerd Humbach. Plambeck & Co Druck u. Publishing house, Neuss 1987.
  6. ↑ Wilfried Reckert: Communism Experience. Twenty years as a DKP functionary. Analytical reflections . LIT, Münster 2006, p. 20.
  7. ↑ Wes money I'll take the song I sing . In: Die Zeit , June 8, 1990.
  8. ↑ Shots at the Scharmützelsee . In: Der Spiegel No. 1, 1990.
  9. ↑ Key in the allotment garden . In: Der Spiegel No. 27, 1991.
  10. ↑ Partisan training at Springsee. In: bundesregierung.de. Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, December 30, 1989, accessed on February 5, 2017 : “In the spring of 1989, the DKP chairman, Herbert Mies, declared the MO to be dissolved. There were no longer enough suitable party members. "
  11. ^ Former DKP functionaries in custody. In: Berliner Zeitung. February 17, 1994, accessed on February 5, 2017 : “The former DKP functionaries Herbert Mies and Kurt Frituch have been taken into custody. Both had refused in October 1993 to provide information about the funding of their party by the GDR before the Schalck investigative committee in Bonn. "
  12. ^ The court ruled in favor of former DKP politicians. In: New Germany. February 23, 1994, accessed December 11, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Memorial service and obituary notice for Herbert Mies. In: news.dkp.de. German Communist Party, January 18, 2017, accessed on February 5, 2017 : "The funeral service for Herbert Mies will take place on January 27, 2017 at 12 noon in the hall of the Mannheim-Sandhofen cemetery."
personal data
SURNAME Bad, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party functionary (KPD, DKP)
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim-Waldhof
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2017
Place of death Mannheim