Karl Heym (politician)

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Karl Heym (born December 24, 1902 in Suhl ; † July 7, 1981 ) was a German party functionary ( SPD / SED ), resistance fighter against National Socialism and local politician (SED).

Life

Heym was the son of the anti-fascist resistance fighter Guido Heym and politically followed in his footsteps. Heym was involved in the suppression of the Kapp Putsch in the former Free State of Gotha in March 1920 . At a meeting with Walter Ulbricht on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the suppression of the Kapp Putsch on March 20, 1970 in Suhl, Heym said “that not only guns were built in Suhl, but that the workers also knew how to use them. “In 1921 he headed the Suhl sub-district of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) and in 1927 followed his father to the Lenin League . Since 1928 he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

After the NSDAP came to power in 1933, he continued his political activities illegally . On June 8, 1944, he was arrested and taken to the Ichtershausen state prison. On April 9, 1945 he was deported to Czechoslovakia . He escaped from a death transport by fleeing and was able to bring his mother Anna home from Meiningen prison in April 1945 .

After the end of the Nazi dictatorship, US occupation officers appointed him District Administrator of Suhl / Schleusingen . He kept this office during the Soviet occupation until 1950. In 1948/49 he was also a member of the 1st People's Council of the Soviet Zone. Although he joined the Socialist Unity Party (SED), he was pushed out of office and other political functions. He left the GDR in 1951 , but later moved back, but was not allowed to come back to Suhl, but had to live in Meuselwitz and Rudolstadt . He was only allowed to return to his hometown in 1956, where he worked as managing director of social security .

Awards

literature

  • Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 . Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 553.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , March 21, 1970, p. 2.
  2. ^ New Germany , August 30, 1946, p. 3.
  3. ↑ Gerd Kaiser: "On life and death". Silent heroes in the anti-fascist resistance (1923–1945). edition bodini 2007, ISBN 978-3-929390-96-4 , p. 114.
personal data
SURNAME Heym, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party functionary (SPD, SED), MdV and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Suhl
DATE OF DEATH 7th July 1981