Hermann Prübenau

Hermann Prübenau (born November 6, 1901 in Magdeburg ; † March 29, 1979 there ) was a politician ( USPD , SPD , SED ) and member of the state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt .

Life

Hermann Prübenau attended elementary school and then trained as a printer from 1916 to 1920. After completing his apprenticeship, he was a typesetter, print shop employee and print shop manager. Since 1916 he was active in the socialist youth movement. In 1919 he joined the USPD, in 1922 he joined the SPD, where he also held party functions. From 1920 he was unionized in the book printers' association and wrote in socialist party newspapers.

During the National Socialist era he was unemployed until 1936. From 1942 he did military service , was injured and was taken prisoner of war in March 1945. According to his own statements in the Landtag handbook, he did illegal party work for the SPD and suffered interrogations and house searches.

In June 1945 he returned to Magdeburg and immediately became involved again in the re-admitted SPD. Prübenau was elected as a member of the SPD district executive committee in Magdeburg in July 1945 and then headed it from February to April 1946 as chairman. In the discussions about the unification of the SPD and KPD into one party, Prübenau was one of the supporters of the ideas of the KPD. After the forced unification of the SPD and KPD , Prübenau was therefore also chairman of the Magdeburg district association of the SED alongside Ernst Brandt , who was previously a member of the KPD. In his function, Prübenau was responsible for the areas of local politics, social welfare, resettlers, returnees, refugees as well as the police and the judiciary. As chairman of an SED district association, he also became a member of the SED party executive committee .

He was a city councilor in Magdeburg. In the state elections in the province of Saxony in 1946 , he was elected to the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt in constituency I (Jerichow II, Salzwedel, Osterburg, Stendal and Gardelegen) . He was a member of the 1st People's Council of the Soviet Zone .

In connection with the show trial against Leo Herwegen , he was dismissed as head of the municipal department in the state executive committee of the SED. At the same time, he was accused of having contacts with former SPD members and the SPD's Eastern Office, which ultimately led to a temporary exclusion from the party.

literature

• Dr. Kurt Schwarze : Handbook of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, 1947, p. 169
• Gerda Meyer-Eberhard: A Social Democratic Lord Mayor in the Dictatorship - Rudolf Eberhard, 2000, ISBN 9783898117265 , p. 175, online
• Frank Hirschinger: Forgery and instrumentalization of anti-fascist biographies: The example of Halle / Saale 1945–2005, Volume 53 of Reports and Studies, 2007, ISBN 9783862340361 , pp. 19–20, online