Ingo Wachtel

Ingo Wachtel (born August 7, 1912 in Plötzig in West Prussia ; † October 19, 1990 ) was a German typesetter , newspaper sales manager and party functionary ( SPD / SED ).

Life

Wachtel came from a middle-class family. His father was a teacher . After the family moved to Nordhausen , the father was an SPD city ​​councilor there . When Ingo Wachtel had finished elementary school and high school , he became a volunteer at the “ Nordhäuser Volkszeitung ”. He joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and was active in the environment of Johannes Kleinspehn . In 1928 he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , Wachtel worked as a branch manager at newspaper companies. In 1942 he was temporarily sales manager for the German Ukraine newspaper in Luck .

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, he became regional secretary for West Thuringia in the SPD state executive in December 1945. He also volunteered for youth issues . In April 1946 he became a member of the secretariat in the state executive committee and head of the public relations department . Stefan Heymann held the corresponding part for the KPD . He is strongly committed to the preparation of the state elections and pleaded for tolerant behavior in the party. In 1947 he moved to Berlin with Erich Gniffke and resigned from the party's national leadership. In 1948 he left the Soviet Zone for West Germany because there were apparently rumors about his former Wehrmacht activity in the Ukraine .

literature

• Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 , = publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 570, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7
• Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED. History, organization, politics. A manual. Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 1104.