Julius Juergensen
Julius Jürgensen (born April 1, 1896 in Flensburg , † November 6, 1957 in Berlin ) was a German politician of the KPD .
Life and work
Juergensen was a factory worker. He was a soldier in World War I from 1915. At the end of the war he was stationed in the Balkans and was elected to the soldiers' council by his artillery unit. After the National Socialists came to power , he was interned in the Glückstadt concentration camp from April to November 1933 . When he was released, he was working as a moving furniture agent. In 1935 he emigrated to Denmark. He came to Spain in early 1937 and fought on the side of the Republic in the Spanish Civil War . He was political commissar of the artillery base in Albacete. In 1938 he was expatriated. After the defeat of the Republic in Spain, he stayed in France, where he was interned in 1939/40 and extradited to Germany in 1943. From January 1944, Jürgensen was a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp , which was liberated on April 11, 1945 by members of the US Army .
After the KPD ban in 1956, Jürgensen moved to the GDR and worked there at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED . In 1957 he was awarded the GDR Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.
Political party
Jürgensen had been a member of the KPD since 1920 and was a member of the regional board on Sylt since 1931. In Denmark he worked from 1935 to 1937 in the KPD's legal emigre management and was head of the refugee committee of the Red Aid in Copenhagen . His political activity in Spain was sharply criticized by the top cadres of the International Brigades . After the Second World War he was one of the leading members of the KPD district Wasserkante (= Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein) and since a member of the KPD party executive, where he headed the agriculture department until 1954. From 1954 to 1956 he was a member of the Party Control Commission.
After moving to the GDR, Jürgensen became a member of the SED .
MP
Jürgensen was a city councilor in Westerland on Sylt from 1929 to 1933 . In 1946 he was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament .
literature
- G. Bach, O. Schulze. In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 234-235.
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany , October 7, 1957, p. 4
Web links
- Julius Jürgensen in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Juergensen, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Flensburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1957 |
| Place of death | Berlin |