Herbert Morgenstern

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Herbert Morgenstern (born November 25, 1913 ; † unknown) was a German communications engineer , communist resistance fighter against National Socialism , prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp , employee in the Central Committee of the SED and head of post and telecommunications in the GDR .

Life

Morgenstern graduated after attending the elementary school , a vocational training for communications engineer. He joined the KJVD at an early age and was active against the emerging National Socialism. After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he continued to operate illegally against the Nazi system and was sentenced to three years in prison in 1935 . In 1938 he was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp and assigned to the electricians' command. Here too he continued his resistance. He and others listened to foreign news channels in the switchboard . He connected the phone to the shot in the neck and was therefore able to report on the murder practices that had been committed . Morgenstern was one of the prisoners who expressed their love of freedom in artistic form and thus encouraged others as well. B. wrote poems like this:

Then when the wild lilacs bloom
And our longing with light wings
Homewards in the land of dreams
Then we feel a faint ringing
Like when the night escapes the day.
Spring is coming again
It has always been like this
This is what life wants
Man never changes;
The wheel of the world turns
Its turning is called time
It will stay that way
For eternity.

Morgenstern took part in the military preparations for a liberation operation. In order to prepare for an uprising against the SS rule, clarification was necessary about the routing of all cables, communication links and alarm systems of the SS for information to the IMO . Armin Walther later reported that, together with Morgenstern, he was in charge of the teletype and telephone switchboard technically, so that it was possible to read almost all telexes and also to look at the deciphered radio messages .

After his liberation he became a member of the KPD in 1945 and of the SED in 1946 . He worked as an employee in the Central Committee of the SED and in responsible functions in the post and telecommunications system of the GDR. He was a member of the central management of the committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters of the GDR and secretary of the Buchenwald working group in the committee.

Morgenstern last lived in Berlin .

aftermath

  • Deutschlandradio Kultur commemorated Herbert Morgenstern's liberation on the occasion of a broadcast on May 8, 2005.

Awards

Herbert Morgenstern received numerous awards in the GDR, including the gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1988 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Congratulations on your 70th birthday in Neues Deutschland , November 25, 1983, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports. Berlin 1983, p. 196
  3. ↑ Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports. Berlin 1983, p. 340
  4. ↑ Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports. Berlin 1983, p. 517
  5. ↑ Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports. Berlin 1983, p. 576
  6. ^ Emil Carlebach , Willy Schmidt , Ulrich Schneider (eds.): Buchenwald a concentration camp. Reports - pictures - documents. Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-89144-271-8 , p. 95
  7. ↑ Neues Deutschland , April 25, 1981, p. 3.
  8. ↑ Neue Zeit , June 24, 1987, p. 1.
  9. ↑ Congratulations on the 76th birthday in Berliner Zeitung , November 25, 1989, p. 8.
  10. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur: Nineteen Forty-Five
  11. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 6, 1988, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Morgenstern, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter and leader in the GDR post and telecommunications system
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1913
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century