Hermann Nuding

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Hermann Christian Nuding (born July 3, 1902 in Oberurbach ; † December 31, 1966 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician of the KPD and SED functionary.

Life

Nuding grew up as the oldest of eleven children in a working-class family. After graduating from elementary school , he trained as a white tanner . He organized himself in the free trade unions and in 1918 in the Spartakusbund . In 1919 he joined the Free Socialist Youth, ie the later ( Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD), and the KPD . 1923-1924 he stayed under the name "Jimmy Hill" for the International Workers Aid (IAH) in the USA During this time he joined the Communist Party of the United States, and then worked as political secretary of the Württemberg KJVD and in the district leadership of his party.In 1927/28 he was a student at the International Lenin School in Moscow and from 1928 until the NSDAP came to power he worked as a Full-time employee in various regional organizations of the KPD (Düsseldorf, Solingen, Hagen, Upper Silesia, etc.). At the same time, he had functions in the community of proletarian freethinkers ("Freethinker Association") .

After the Reichstag fire on February 28, 1933, he was arrested and imprisoned in a concentration camp for 16 months. After his release in 1934, he fled first to Prague, then to the USSR. There he worked for the Comintern and for the foreign leadership of the KPD. From 1935 to 1937 he headed the defensive work and the intelligence service of the KPD in Prague and Paris as the successor to Hans Kippenberger , but was relieved of his position in 1937/38 because of “serious vigilance errors”.

In 1939 he moved to France ( Lyon ), was interned in the Gurs camp or in the Chambaron camp in 1939/40 , fled from there and joined the Resistance in the Maquis Haut Savogon, which later became part of the Francs-tireurs et Partisans Français (FTPF ) worked together. His cover name was "Jean" or "Jean Bauer". From 1944 he was editor for publications of the resistance organization Movement Free Germany in the West (Comité "Allemagne libre" pour l'Ouest, CALPO).

After his return to Germany in 1945 he was involved in the reorganization of the KPD in the western zones . Since the forced unification of the SPD and KPD , he was also a member of the sister party SED and was a member of the party executive. He was second chairman of the KPD in Württemberg and from 1946 a member of the appointed provisional parliament , the state constituent assembly and then until 1950 of the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden . He was a member of the German Bundestag in its first legislative period from 1949 to April 20, 1951. Nuding was elected to the secretariat of the party executive in 1948 and headed the labor and social policy department. In 1949 “a hard argument about the direction of trade union policy” developed in the secretariat. Nuding had "concerns about sectarian tendencies in trade union work." What was meant by this was the initiation of "workers' committees" which dealt critically with the DGB unions and to which the DGB responded with an incompatibility resolution. Another point of conflict was Nuding's stance on remilitarization. In connection with the protests against West German rearmament, he declared that he did not want to fight against “American interveners” either. In July 1950, Nuding was then accused of "opportunism". Together with Hugo Ehrlich , Walter Fisch , Erich Jungmann , Josef Schleifstein and Rudolf Singer , Nuding was replaced as a member of the secretariat and his other functions were released. In 1951 he also resigned from the Bundestag. According to his own statement, this happened for health reasons, and according to another opinion, on an instruction from the Politburo of the SED.

Nuding was an employee of the KPD until June 1955 and then retired. He remained an advisor to officials in his party on union issues.

Hermann Nuding was married twice, his first marriage to Paula Kopp .

Publications

  • The development of our party and the organizational tasks. In: Material for reporting from the district party conference of the KPD North Württemberg / Baden on 30./31. March 1946. sn, Karlsruhe 1946, p. 7 ff.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This and the following information, unless otherwise documented: Gottfried Hamacher with the collaboration of André Lohmar, Herbert Mayer, Günter Wehner and Harald Wittstock: Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. Short biographies, Berlin 2005, 2nd ext. Ed., P. 155, see: PDF .
  2. ↑ a b c Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Hermann Nuding . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  3. ↑ There are contradicting statements in Wer was who in the GDR and German Communists .
  4. ^ Hans Kluth, The KPD in the Federal Republic. Your political activities and organization 1945-1956, Cologne / Opladen 1959, p. 128.
  5. ^ A b Gottfried Hamacher with the assistance of André Lohmar, Herbert Mayer, Günter Wehner, Harald Wittstock: Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. Short biographies, Berlin 2005, 2nd ext. Ed., P. 155, see: PDF .
  6. ^ Günter Judick / Josef Schleifstein / Kurt Steinhaus , KPD 1945-1968: 1945-1952, Frankfurt a. M. 1989, p. 45.
  7. ↑ Hendrik Bunke, Die KPD in Bremen, Cologne 2001, p. 198; Eugen Eberle / Peter Grohmann, The Sleepless Nights of Eugen E. Memories of a New Swabian Jacobin, Stuttgart 1982, p. 229.
  8. ^ A b c Martin Jung: Nuding, Hermann Christian . In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB), Vol. 19, Berlin 1999, pp. 368f.
  9. ^ Hans Kluth, The KPD in the Federal Republic. Your political activities and organization 1945-1956, Cologne / Opladen 1959, p. 76.
  10. ↑ Hendrik Bunke, Die KPD in Bremen, Cologne 2001, p. 97.
personal data
SURNAME Nuding, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nuding, Hermann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdL, MdB, SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberurbach
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1966
Place of death Stuttgart