Jacob Boulanger

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Jakob Boulanger (born January 8, 1897 in Cologne , † March 16, 1968 in East Berlin ) was a KPD functionary and anti-fascist resistance fighter .

Life

Boulanger was the son of a shoemaker. He completed an apprenticeship as a blacksmith and at a mechanical engineering school. In 1915 he became a member of the German Metalworkers' Association . In 1918 he also became a member of the USPD and later of the Spartakusbund and thus a founding member of the Communist Party of Germany . In the following years, he served as council chairman active in unions. In 1923 he was one of the participants in the armed struggle against Rhenish separatism .

In 1924/25 Boulanger was delegated to a course at the Comintern Special School in Moscow, where he, together with Richard Stahlmann and others, took part in the second course for the training of functionaries trained in military policy. From 1926 to 1933 Boulanger was a full-time KPD functionary and employee in the KPD 's M apparatus, which was headed by Hans Kippenberger .

In 1927 he became organizational secretary of the KPD district of Middle Rhine and a short time later Gauleiter of the RFB became political secretary of the district leadership in Northern Bavaria. In 1932 he was elected as a member of the KPD in the Bavarian state parliament, to which he belonged until its dissolution. In 1933 he was one of the leading organizers of the anti-fascist resistance struggle in Northern Bavaria, briefly also in Thuringia (under the code name Ewald Rüdiger ) and participant in the last meeting of the Central Committee of the KPD in Germany in the sports store Ziegenhals .

In July 1933 he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned for three and a half years in Amberg prison for “preparation for high treason” and then in the Dachau , Buchenwald and Mauthausen concentration camps . In Mauthausen he belonged to the prisoners' resistance organization and participated in the armed uprising in 1945.

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After the liberation he was initially involved in building up the KPÖ in Vienna and was a courier between the KPD and KPÖ. He was then a member of the KPD's Committee for Economic Affairs in Berlin and then until the end of 1947 Vice President of the Central Administration of Industry in the Soviet occupation zone and then until 1956 director of several large companies, such as the Hennigsdorf steel and rolling mill . From 1956 to 1963 he was general director of the GDR foreign trade company Invest-Export .

In 1967 he received the GDR Patriotic Order of Merit in gold. His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Publications

  • with Michael Tschesno-Hell , One digit above the heart. Experience report from 12 years imprisonment , Berlin 1957

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of participants
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , February 28, 1967, p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Boulanger, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter and KPD functionary
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1968
Place of death East Berlin