Karl Salomon

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Karl Salomon (born November 26, 1896 in Dessau , † September 28, 1977 in Eichwalde ) was Deputy Minister for Transport and Deputy General Director of a foreign trade company in the GDR .

Life

Salomon, son of a bricklayer, attended elementary and middle school. From 1912 he was a seaman in the merchant marine. During the First World War he did military service in the 2nd Torpedo Division from October 1916. He experienced the end of the war in November 1918 as a member of a soldiers' council. After the war he was a seaman on a fishing steamer and later worked as a bricklayer. From 1919 he lived in Bremerhaven . In 1923 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), was secretary of the KPD in Osnabrück and in 1927 became a member of the KPD district leadership northwest. He became a helmsman in 1927 and obtained his captain's license in 1929 . In the same year he became head of the unified association of seamen and dock workers in Bremen and in 1931 city councilor in Bremen.

After 1933 he did anti-fascist resistance work and was imprisoned several times. Arrested again in September 1937, he was sentenced to three years in prison in 1938. After serving his sentence, he was taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp until 1945 .

After his liberation he rejoined the KPD and became deputy mayor of Berlin-Tiergarten . In August 1945 he was a member of the founding committee of the Free German Trade Union Confederation (FDGB) in the province of Brandenburg and secretary of the FDGB state board of Brandenburg. From 1946 he was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1947 to 1948 he was head of the central provision office for building materials in Potsdam and from November 1948 head of the Schwerin waterways office . Then he became the main director of the German shipping and handling operations (DSU) and in 1952 director of the German shipping company . In May 1953 he became Deputy State Secretary in the State Secretariat for Shipping in the GDR. From January 1955 to 1960 he was Deputy Minister and State Secretary for Shipping in the Ministry of Transport of the GDR. He then worked as a deputy to the general director of the state-owned foreign trade company Transport Machines Export-Import.

Salomon last lived as a veteran in Eichwalde and died at the age of 80.

Awards in the GDR

literature

  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 752 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Andreas Herbst : Salomon, Karl . In: Dieter Dowe, Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990) . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .
  • Constance Margain: L'Internationale des gens de la mer (1930–1937). Activités, parcours militants et resistance au nazisme d'un syndicat communiste de marins et dockers . Dissertation University of Le Havre / Center for Contemporary History Potsdam 2015 ( digital version [PDF; 7.2 MB; accessed on September 5, 2019]).
  • Walter Mülich: Crossing courses. Bremerhaven, Bremen, Lübeck and Valparaíso. German and Chilean ships as instruments of oppression . Culture machines, Ochsenfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-943977-45-5 .
  • Walter Mülich: Karl Salomon - True to the line from west to east. From the “Red Steersman” in Bremerhaven to the State Secretary in the GDR (=  Publications of the Bremerhaven City Archives . Volume 24 ). Self-published, Bremerhaven 2018, ISBN 3-923851-30-8 .
  • Walter Mülich: seaman and revolutionary. The path of the Bremerhaven communist Karl Salomon . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 836 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven August 2019, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 2.9 MB ; accessed on September 5, 2019]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from October 1, 1977, p. 16.
personal data
SURNAME Salomon, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German KPD functionary, SED State Secretary in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1977
Place of death Eichwalde