Johann Fladung

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Johann Fladung , also known as Johannes or Hans Fladung (* February 12, 1898 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 11, 1982 in Gundernhausen near Darmstadt), was a German KPD functionary, cultural politician, publisher and publicist.

Life

In 1918 Fladung was a member of the Hanover Soldiers' Council (according to other sources, USPD functionary in Frankfurt) and in December 1920 a delegate at the unification congress of the KPD and USPD. As a KPD functionary he worked in Kassel, Stettin, Pomerania and Krefeld. In December 1924 he was elected to the Prussian state parliament for the KPD and re-elected in 1928 and 1932. From 1930 until the KPD ban in 1933 he was a city councilor for Düsseldorf. In May 1932 he was seriously injured in a brawl with NSDAP members , arrested by the Gestapo in September 1933 and severely ill-treated in Berlin's Columbiahaus . Sentenced to two and a half years in prison by the People's Court in November 1934 , he was released from prison in August 1936, almost deaf. As he wrote in his memoir, he was ill and weak when he fled to Switzerland with false papers in early 1938; he was immediately taken to a clinic. Three months later he traveled to Paris and from there by plane to London, where he was received by representatives of the Quakers . At the end of 1939 he was one of the founders of the Free German Cultural Association . In 1942 or 1943 he succeeded Hans Flesch-Brunningen as chairman.

In 1946 Fladung returned to Düsseldorf and was from 1951-1958 NRW State Secretary of the Democratic Cultural Association of the Federal Republic of Germany , which had close ties to the GDR Cultural Association and was banned in March 1959 as an anti-constitutional association . In 1954 he founded Progress-Verlag in Düsseldorf, which later moved to Darmstadt. There appeared u. a. the magazines he edited, Kultur & Gesellschaft and Geist und Zeit . In 1964 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena .

A trial against Fladung before the Düsseldorf Regional Court for endangering the state was discontinued in January 1964 because the defendant was unable to stand trial.

Publications

  • Experience. From the Empire to the Federal Republic. Ed., Einl. Josef Schleifstein . Röderberg, Frankfurt 1986
  • Ten years. An almanac. [= 10 years of Progress-Verlag Johann Fladung 1961 GmbH, Darmstadt], Darmstadt 1961

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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 June 3, 2020]).
  2. ↑ ibid; File of the Federal Archives Koblenz, according to Quäker-Nachrichten February 11, 2012
  3. ↑ Silke Wilms, C. v. Looz-Corswarem : Düsseldorf City Councilor 1878–1933. (PDF) Stadtarchiv Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, pp. 19–20 , accessed on September 10, 2015 (1992/1993).
  4. ↑ Hans Fladung: Experiences. From the Empire to the Federal Republic. Röderberg Verlag Frankfurt / Main 1986, p. 249 ff
  5. ^ Jürgen Kuczynski : Memoirs. Cologne 1983, pp. 284, 300
  6. ↑ Socialist University No. 6, March 21, 1964  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / zs.thulb.uni-jena.de  
personal data
SURNAME Fladung, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fladung, Johannes; Fladung, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German KPD functionary, cultural politician, publisher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1982
Place of death Gundernhausen , community of Roßdorf, district of Darmstadt-Dieburg