Joachim Flatau

Joachim Flatau (born March 18, 1907 in Tuchel ; † April 16, 2000 in Berlin ) was a German functionary of the GDR block party LDPD and editor-in-chief of the LDPD central organ Der Morgen .

Life

Flatau was born in Tuchel, West Prussia , which fell to Poland in January 1920 under the provisions of the Versailles Treaty as part of the establishment of the Polish Corridor . He attended elementary school and high school, where he passed his Abitur in 1926. He then studied German literature, philosophy and history at the universities in Berlin and Munich until 1932 . He then worked for various publishing houses and archives until 1938. In 1938 Flatau joined the NSDAP . In 1939 he began working for the Foreign Office of the German Reich , where he was employed as a scientific assistant in the cultural department. In 1943 Flatau was drafted into the Wehrmacht , in which he served until February 1944. Due to a serious wound, after which Flatau had to amputate both legs and the left arm, he was only able to return to work in 1947.

Flatau remained in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of World War II . In 1945 he joined the LDP. In the spring of 1947, the newly elected second LDP state chairman of Brandenburg , Ingo von Koerber , employed Flatau as an employee. After the 3rd LDP party congress in February 1949, he moved to the party's central executive committee, where he initially worked as a consultant and later as head of department. In the summer of 1950 Flatau also moved up to replace the arrested LDPD General Secretary Günter Stempel as a member of the Provisional People's Chamber . For the next Volkskammer election in December 1950, the LDPD again presented Flatau as a candidate; he represented his party as a member of the GDR parliament's first electoral term. In 1951 the party gave him the post of editor-in-chief of the central organ Der Morgen , succeeding Wilhelm John . Through this function he was also a member of the LDPD central board and the political committee.

In December 1954 Flatau was removed from the editor-in-chief as well as the leadership positions in the party by a resolution of the party college. His successor in the office of editor-in-chief was Gerhard Fischer . Flatau moved to Hans Loch's office and became his personal advisor. After Loch's death in 1960, he worked as a freelance journalist, often together with his wife Annelis. He continued to write as a freelancer for the morning and wrote various books.

Private

Joachim Flatau was married to Anna-Elisabeth "Annelis" Flatau, who had headed the women's editorial team at Der Morgen newspaper as early as 1950 . They had two children together.

Publications

• Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher : The world before my eyes. Memories from the 20th century . Recorded by Annelis and Joachim Flata. Verlag Der Morgen, Berlin 1969. (2nd edition 1987)
• Max Suhrbier : A look back into life. Last conversations . Recorded and edited by Joachim Flatau. Der Morgen publishing house, Berlin 1973.

literature

• Wolfgang Schollwer : Potsdamer Tagebuch 1948–1950. Liberal politics under Soviet occupation . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1988.
• Wolfgang Schollwer: Biographical Notes. Memories 1922-1950 . Self-published, Cologne 2002.

Web links

• Andreas Herbst :  Joachim Flatau . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .