Johannes Dieckmann

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Johannes Dieckmann at a meeting of the People's Chamber, 1960
Johannes Dieckmann, 1967

Johannes Dieckmann (born January 19, 1893 in Fischerhude , Achim district ; † February 22, 1969 in East Berlin ) was a German functionary of the LDPD block party . He was President of the People's Chamber of the GDR and Deputy Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR .

Life

Dieckmann was the son of a pastor . He studied economics and philosophy in Berlin , Giessen and Göttingen . In Berlin he became a member of the VDSt Berlin . In 1916 he was drafted into the military. In November 1918 he was chairman of a soldiers' council .

After the end of the First World War , Dieckmann joined the DVP and became one of Gustav Stresemann's closest collaborators . Dieckmann was successively General Secretary of the DVP in the districts of Weser-Ems , Lower Rhine and Saxony . From 1929 to 1933 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament with a brief interruption . On May 23, 1933, he voted in the state parliament for the adoption of the Saxon Enabling Act .

From 1933 to 1939 he worked as managing director of several coal industry associations. In August 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , and in January 1941 he was released as captain of the reserve. Then he was manager of the Upper Silesian Hard Coal Syndicate until 1945. In 1944, Dieckmann was placed under close scrutiny by the Gestapo in connection with the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , in which his cousin Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim was involved.

After the end of the Second World War , Dieckmann founded the “Sächsische Kohlenkontor” and the publishing house “Sächsisches Tageblatt”. He was also a co-founder of the LDPD in Saxony and from 1951 officially advocated the conformity of his party in the system of block parties in the GDR . Since 1946 he belonged to the Saxon state parliament for the LDPD . From 1948 he acted as Minister of Justice and Deputy Prime Minister of Saxony. In 1948/49 he was a member of the German Economic Commission , the German People's Council and its constitutional committee. From 1949 to 1969 he was deputy chairman of the LDPD and president of the People's Chamber of the GDR. From 1960 until his death in 1969 he was one of the deputy chairmen of the State Council of the GDR. In 1947 he was one of the co-founders of the Society for the Study of Culture of the Soviet Union , from which the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) emerged in 1949 . At DSF he was a member of the central board and from 1963 to 1968 its president.

In 1961 Dieckmann accepted the invitation of a Marburg functionary of the Liberal Student Union of Germany (LSD), Klaus Horn, to discuss reunification in the Hessian university town. In the run-up, not only the FDP leadership distanced themselves from the project, but also the leadership of the LSD. Nevertheless, Dieckmann's appearance received a great deal of public attention. Several hundred listeners and journalists gathered in a tavern, and outside there was loud demonstration against the event and its protagonists. In the end, Dieckmann was only able to leave the hall under police protection and left hastily.

On numerous trips abroad, according to Der Spiegel , Dieckmann himself always presented socialist power as respectable in speech and habitus. In recent years, the Dresden honorary citizen had only acted as a symbol of the SED dream of the political and moral unity of the GDR people .

tomb

He is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder parishes .

The writer Friedrich Dieckmann (* 1937) is his son.

Dieckmann's estate came to the central archive of the LDPD in Berlin and from there in 1991 to the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

State honors

Publications

  • Rudolf Heinze . In: Karl Maßmann , Robert Paul Oszwald (Ed.): VDSter - 50 years of work for people and the state. Dedicated to the associations of German students on August 6, 1931. Berlin 1931, pp. 61-65.
  • In Germany's most decisive time. Speeches and essays. Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1958, DNB 57285191X .
  • Where the way leads. Speeches and essays. Compiled by Theo Hanemann. Edited by the central board of the LDPD. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1963, DNB 450930580 .
  • Documents - speeches - essays. Collected by Manfred Bogisch . Edited by the secretariat of the central board of the LDPD. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1982, DNB 830443207 .

literature

  • Rudolf Agsten : Johannes Dieckmann. In: Secretariat of the Central Board of the LDPD (ed.): Pathfinders of our party. Buchverlag Der Morgen, Berlin 1986, DNB 880864745 , pp. 29-39.
  • Jürgen Frölich : Johannes Dieckmann (1893–1969). In: Torsten Oppelland (ed.): German politicians 1949–1969. 17 biographical sketches from East and West. Volume 1. Primus, Darmstadt 1999, ISBN 3-89678-120-0 , pp. 60-71.
  • Theo Hanemann: Wait a minute, Mr. Dieckmann. Stories - anecdotes - memories. 2nd Edition. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-371-00176-8 .
  • Johannes Dieckmann. From his life and work. Edited by the Central Committee of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1968, DNB 457102624 .
  • Johannes Dieckmann. Contributions to his political biography 1945–1969. From the minutes of the colloquium of the Commission for Research into the Party History of the LDPD and the Scientific Council of the Central Party School “Dr. Wilhelm Külz “of the LDPD. Edited by the secretariat of the central board of the LDPD. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1974, DNB 750377836 .
  • Elke Reuter, Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Dieckmann, Johannes . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Christoph Stamm: "... and by no means as a 'fellow traveler'." The political beginnings of Johannes Dieckmann in the German People's Party 1918–1933. In: Yearbook on Liberalism Research . Volume 31, 2019, pp. 339–364.
  • Changes and effects. Minutes of the Scientific Colloquium of the Political Committee of the Central Executive of the LDPD on the subject of "Johannes Dieckmann - His Relationship to the Working Class and His Contribution to Alliance Policy". Edited by the secretariat of the central board of the LDPD. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1983, DNB 850489040 .
  • Marc Zirlewagen:  Johannes Dieckmann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 496-501.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

On my visit to Marburg in 1961

  • Conrad Ahlers : It wasn't laughable! Marburg students organize a civil war exercise against Johannes Dieckmann. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . January 16, 1961, p. 3.
  • Dieckmann in Marburg. An almost complete chronicle of the history, events and effects of his visit . In: Marburg leaves. No. 67, 1961, p. 3 ff.
  • Reinhard Hübsch: Dieckmann out - hang him up! The visit of the GDR People's Chamber President Johannes Dieckmann in Marburg on January 13, 1961. Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89144-212-2 .

Web links

Commons : Johannes Dieckmann  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 42.
  2. ^ See on the voting behavior of the bourgeois MPs on the Saxon Enabling Act: Mike Schmeitzner : Dresden: Landtag and State Chancellery . In: Konstantin Hermann (ed.): Führerschule, Thingplatz, "Judenhaus" - places and buildings of the National Socialist dictatorship in Saxony . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-052-9 , pp. 58–61, here p. 61, note 7.
  3. ↑ https://books.google.de/books?id=ZCm1BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA68 Harald Krieg: LDP and NDP in the »GDR« 1949–1958 . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 1965, ISBN 3-663-03152-7 , p. 68 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ 40 years ago Johannes Dieckmann spoke in Marburg ( Memento of August 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Liberal deadline for the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom . January 12, 2011.
  5. ↑ Johannes Dieckmann . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1969 ( online ).
  6. ^ Susanne Ackermann, Jürgen Frölich : The estate of the People's Chamber President Johannes Dieckmann in the AdL. In: Communications from Section 6 in the Association of German Archivists. No. 31, 2006, pp. 43-47.
  7. ^ New Germany , May 8, 1954.
  8. ^ Johannes-Dieckmann-Strasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein .
personal data
SURNAME Dieckmann, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German LDPD functionary, MdV, President of the People's Chamber
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Fischerhude , Achim district
DATE OF DEATH 22nd February 1969
Place of death East Berlin