Jean-Baptist files
Jean-Baptist Feilen (born May 29, 1904 in Rosslingen , † December 25, 1991 in Berlin ) was a German KPD functionary, resistance fighter against National Socialism , prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp and department head of the Thuringian state police .
Life
The son of a miner also became a miner and in 1920 a member of the Communist Youth of Germany and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He attended the Reich Party School of the KPD and was a student at the M-School in Moscow in 1932. As a functionary and head of the military-political department of the KPD Central Rhine district leadership in Cologne, he participated in the resistance against the emerging National Socialism as early as the Weimar Republic .
After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he was taken into “ protective custody ” in June 1933 and transferred to the Esterwegen concentration camp . After his release, he worked on the illegal resistance was again in 1934 arrested and two years prison sentenced. He was then transferred to the Lichtenburg concentration camp and when it opened in 1937, he was taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp as a prisoner, where he was assigned to the laundry command. He had to endure excessive beating on the rack in the camp . After a while he was appointed Kapo . In this capacity he participated in the prisoner resistance and helped save the lives of numerous prisoners. Just as Feilen maintained regular contact with the International Military Organization (IMO), so he supported the liberation of the camp by the 3rd US Army in April 1945. He gave the first report on his official work as head of the laundry room and his illegal resistance work already on record in 1945, another report followed in 1979.
When the Nazi rule was eliminated, Feilen performed various functions in the Thuringian police apparatus until 1949, most recently as head of the K5 (political and other criminal offenses). Later he changed as head of institutions of the GDR - economics and foreign trade. He was HR manager in the VVB Kupfer und Zink in Halle, until 1957 a senior employee of various ministries and until 1967 a trade councilor at the embassy in Yugoslavia. Since 1973 he was a member of the General Council of the International Buchenwald-Dora Committee.
Awards
- 1964 Order Banner of Labor
- 1974 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- 1979 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
literature
- Emil Carlebach / Willy Schmidt / Ulrich Schneider (eds.): Buchenwald a concentration camp. Reports - Pictures - Documents , Bonn 2000, p. 83, ISBN 3-89144-271-8 .
- Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports , Berlin 1983, p. 754.
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online [accessed August 19, 2011]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://bda-koepenick.de/verfolte/Jean-Baptist%20Feilen
- ↑ http://www.einschluss.de/pdf/politpolizeiundhaft1945bis50.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 20, 2011
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| SURNAME | Filing, Jean-Baptist |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German KPD functionary and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rosslingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1991 |
| Place of death | Berlin |