Jakob Weber (writer)

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Jakob Weber (born January 5, 1892 in Cologne-Mülheim , † March 7, 1979 in East Berlin ) was a German KPD functionary and writer.

Life

Jakob Weber grew up in a working class family in Cologne and completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith. In 1910 he became a member of the German Metalworkers' Association . In 1914/15 he was a soldier in the World War until he was seriously injured. In 1915 he joined the SPD . In 1917 he went to Berlin and worked as an aircraft fitter at AEG Hennigsdorf. In opposition to the war, he joined the USPD in 1917 . In January 1918 he took part in the ammunition workers' strike in Berlin and then took an active part in the November 1918 revolution. In December 1918 he was a delegate of the founding party congress of the KPD. He took part in the January uprising in 1919 and in the metal workers' strike at the end of 1919. In March 1920 he was a member of the Action Committee against the Kapp Putsch. Weber became a functionary of the KPD and belonged to the district leadership of Berlin-Brandenburg. From 1926 he headed the workers correspondent movement of the KPD newspaper Die Rote Fahne and was a member of the League of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers from 1928 .

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Weber was repeatedly arrested and in May 1936 by the Court of Appeal sentenced to two years in prison in Berlin. After his release at the end of 1937, he worked under police supervision until the end of the Nazi regime as an employee. On April 22, 1945, before the end of the war, he was appointed mayor of the community of Wilhelmshagen and Rahnsdorf near Berlin by the invading Red Army . After his dismissal at the end of 1946, he lived as a freelance writer in Wilhelmshagen. Jakob Weber was active as a functionary in the GDR writers' association.

He died after a long illness at the age of 87. His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Works (selection)

  • In spite of all. From the days of revolution 1918/19 . Grandstand, Berlin 1960
  • The way of the Reber brothers. New life, Berlin 1970
  • (with Friedel Weber) Three villages in Berlin. Experiences, episodes, memories. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1973.
  • (Collaboration with Horst Czerny) The indomitable. Memories of Otto Franke. Grandstand, Berlin 1978

Awards

literature

  • Meyers Taschenlexikon, Writers of the GDR , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1975, p. 584f.
  • Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
  • Helmut Engel : The comrades were there and the others weren't. End of war and post-war period in the southeast of Berlin Rahnsdorf, Wilhelmshagen, Hessenwinkel . Berlin 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary of the Central Committee of the SED, Neues Deutschland , 10./11. March 1979, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German KPD functionary and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Mülheim
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1979
Place of death East Berlin