Herbert Thiele (resistance fighter, 1910)
Herbert Thiele (born June 13, 1910 in Taucha ; † 1992 ) was a German communist , a former political prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp and, after liberation from Nazi rule, mayor and senior employee in state foreign trade in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Life dates
After attending elementary school, Thiele learned the profession of electrician . He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1929 and was active in resisting the growing influence of the NSDAP . He was arrested immediately after the National Socialists came to power . From 1937 to 1945 he was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp and used as an electrician in the camp. He was conspiratorially active in the illegal party organization of the KPD.
After the liberation from the Nazi regime in 1945 he became mayor of his native Taucha and in 1946 a member of the SED . From 1952 he worked in a leading position in the state foreign trade of the GDR. Until he retired, he was deputy general director of the foreign trade company LIMEX GmbH . Most recently he lived as a veteran in Berlin-Buch .
Awards
- 1970 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1975 in gold
- 1985 Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Koch, Udo Wohlfeld: The German beech forest committee. The period from 1945 to 1958 . Weimar 2010, ISBN 3-935275-14-5 , p. 195.
- ↑ Congratulations on your 60th birthday, Neues Deutschland , June 13, 1970, p. 2.
- ↑ Congratulations on your 75th birthday, Neues Deutschland , June 13, 1985, p. 4.
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| SURNAME | Thiele, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political concentration camp prisoner, resistance fighter against the Nazi regime and mayor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Taucha |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1992 |