Hugo Launicke

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Hugo Launicke (born February 2, 1909 in Roßleben ; † June 6, 1975 ) was a German party functionary, resistance fighter against National Socialism and politician.

Life

Launicke initially worked as a construction worker. In 1923 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) and the workers' sports club. In 1927 he became a member of the KPD . He was involved in the Red Front Fighters League .

From 1929 to 1931 he was a member of the sub-district management of the KJVD Naumburg and Teuchern . After Launicke had moved to Wiehe in 1930 , he took on the role of instructor for the KJVD in the Halle (Saale) district management team from 1931 .

In February 1933 he was expelled from the district for his political activities. He was arrested on March 9, 1933. This was followed by mistreatment and a transfer to the prison in Naumburg. The lay judge in Naumburg sentenced him to three months' imprisonment for insulting a mayor .

Another conviction followed on October 17, 1935. The Berlin Court of Appeal (5th Criminal Senate) imposed a four-year sentence for preparing highly treasonable companies. The civil rights were revoked for five years. Only a short time after his release on May 10, 1939, however, he was arrested again in June and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp , Rautalwerk Wernigerode external command . In this camp he belonged to the illegal leadership of the KPD in the camp. In April 1945 he had to take part in a death march , which he survived.

After the end of National Socialism, Launicke became mayor of the small town of Wiehe, a neighboring town to the village of Roßleben, and soon afterwards became the first district administrator of the then Eckartsberga district . He held this position until 1950. After the Eckartsberga district was renamed the Kölleda district in 1950, he took on the role of SED district secretary in the Kölleda district . He then held positions at the National Front in the districts of Halle and Magdeburg . In 1955, as District Secretary of the Magdeburg National Front, he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. From 1958 to 1963 he was chairman of the pioneer organization Ernst Thälmann in the Magdeburg district. On June 13, 1974 he took over the chairmanship of the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters in the Magdeburg district.

In 1973 he received the GDR Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

After his death, the city of Magdeburg named a street in his honor ( Hugo-Launicke-Straße ) and a school, the POS Hugo Launicke , in the Neustädter Feld district . A high school was also named after him in the Thuringian community of Bachra .

literature

  • Ingelore Buchholz , What Magdeburg street names tell , approx. 1983, Ed. SED -Stadtleitung Magdeburg

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany of December 3, 1982
  2. ↑ http://www.naumburg-geschichte.de/geschichte/uebersichticherung.htm
  3. ^ New Germany of May 7, 1955
  4. ^ Volksstimme of June 14, 1974
  5. ^ New Germany of November 27, 1987.
personal data
SURNAME Launicke, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter against National Socialism, politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Rossleben
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1975