Jochen Weigert

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Joachim "Jochen" Max Weigert (* December 7, 1922 - January 1, 1950 ) was a German FDJ functionary.

Life

As a teenager he emigrated to England with his parents from Breslau in 1936 and returned to Germany in 1945. In 1939 he was one of the founding members of the FDJ in Great Britain. In 1946 Jochen Weigert joined the SED. At the city delegate conference of the Free German Youth (FDJ) in May 1949, he was unanimously elected first chairman of the FDJ of Berlin. On December 30, 1949, he suffered a serious traffic accident at the motorway junction near Königs Wusterhausen , of which he died at the age of 27.

Honors

Today's VfB Berlin-Friedrichshain was named after Jochen Weigert in 1911 , a youth home in East Berlin's Bersarinstrasse, an FDGB convalescent home in Ostseebad Kühlungsborn and the FDJ state school in Pätz . Today a street in Brieselang bears his name.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to other information on January 2, 1950
  2. ^ Deep mourning for Jochen Weigert . In: Neues Deutschland from January 3, 1950.
personal data
SURNAME Refuses, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German FDJ functionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1922
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1950