Hermann Leupold
Hermann Paul Bruno Leupold (pseudonym after 1933 Karel Vanek ) (born June 27, 1900 in Charlottenburg ; † April 8, 1967 in Berlin ) belonged to the illegal Free Socialist Youth (FSJ) and in 1915 founded the local group Charlottenburg des with political friends Tourist Association Die Naturfreunde (TVDN).
Live and act
Hermann Leupold was elected to the Berlin board of directors at the age of 15 as chairman of the local TVDN branch. Initially a USPD - and from 1921 a KPD member, Leupold was also active in the education committee of the Berliner Naturfreunde local group and later as editor of the companion and the companion of the excluded groups. Later he worked as editor of the comrade-in- arms as well as educational chairman and in the executive committee of the workers sports club Fichte . After accepting the position of editor in the magazine Mahnruf der Internationale Arbeiterhilfe (IAH), Leupold later became state chairman of the IAH in Berlin-Brandenburg. From April 1929 he worked in the editorial office of the Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ). The AIZ appeared before 1933 with a print run of 550,000 and became the most popular weekly newspaper in the communist labor movement. From 1930 onwards, Leupold was also a member of the Reich Executive Committee of the IAH and assumed the function of 1st chairman in the Association of Workers' Photographers.
After the banning of the AIZ by the Nazis in 1933 was Hermann Leupold end of March, the statement that the publication of a magazine that since 1937 Volks-Illustrierte was in Prague to lead the way. Numerous photomontages by Leupold appeared in the AIZ under the pseudonym Karel Vanek. Until March 15, 1939 he worked there together with Franz Carl Weiskopf and Louis Fürnberg as AIZ editor in the fight against the Nazi system. Leupold also worked on numerous publications that were illegally smuggled into Germany. From 1938 he worked as an editor of the Czech weekly magazine Svět v obrazech ( The world in photos ). After the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia , he stayed there illegally until Easter 1939, when he managed to emigrate to Great Britain via Poland . Leupold was arrested and interned there on June 27, 1940, but released in November of the same year. He was u. a. First chairman of the Glasgow local branch of the Free German Cultural Association in Great Britain and elected member of the national management. In the GDR, Leupold was director of the Berlin publishing house .
In 1955 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and in 1965 in gold.
literature
- Oliver Kersten: The Friends of Nature movement in the Berlin-Brandenburg region 1908–1989 / 90. Continuities and breaks. Berlin 2007 (additional dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin 2004) (Naturfreunde-Verlag Freizeit und Wander), p. 318 f. ISBN 978-3-925311-31-4
- Short biography for: Leupold, Hermann . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Pieck awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit , In: Neues Deutschland , May 15, 1955, p. 2
- ^ New Germany, July 7, 1965, p. 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leupold, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leupold, Hermann Paul Bruno; Vanek, Karel (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Functionary of the labor movement and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Charlottenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1967 |
| Place of death | Berlin |