Kurt Erlebach

Kurt Erlebach (born July 15, 1922 in Landeshut in Silesia ; † January 11, 2008 ) was a German politician ( KPD , later DKP ).

Life

After training as a carpenter from 1937 to 1940, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He took part in the invasion of the Soviet Union . There he was taken prisoner of war in 1943 and came into contact with representatives of the National Committee for Free Germany . After the end of the war Erlebach went to Hamburg, initially worked as a carpenter and became a member of the FDJ and the KPD and was state chairman of the FDJ.

Erlebach was the youngest member of Hamburg's citizenship from 1950 to 1953 , replacing Walter Möller, who left on January 12, 1950 . From 1954 he was a member of the party executive. After the KPD ban in 1956, Erlebach continued to work illegally for the party and was therefore sentenced to prison. In 1966 he ran as an individual candidate for citizenship.

In 1968 Erlebach was one of the founders of the DKP and was for many years a member of the party's executive committee and presidium. For the 1969 Bundestag election , he took second place on the Hamburg state list of the electoral alliance Action Democratic Progress .

Erlebach was also active in the preparatory organizations of the DKP. He was Secretary General of the VVN .

Even after the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR , he continued his activities. He participated in the Erich Honecker Solidarity Committee and other organizations against the coming to terms with GDR injustice. He belonged to the Central Initiative for the Rehabilitation of Victims of the Cold War and was Honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ernst Thälmann Memorial Hamburg .

Kurt Erlebach was married and had a daughter.

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Erlebach in the catalog of the German National Library