Kurt Langendorf

Kurt Langendorf (born September 11, 1920 in Lörrach ; † July 2, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German resistance fighter , economist and university professor who was also involved in the Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA) .

Life

Langendorf was the son of Rudolf Langendorf and Antonie Langendorf , both of whom were co-founders of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in southern Baden . After power was handed over to the NSDAP , his parents were taken into protective custody. Kurt got the high school diploma . In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He considered withdrawing and going to Switzerland , where his relatives lived. However, through friends of his parents he was convinced to begin his military service . During his military service, he participated in the resistance against National Socialism.

When his father was executed on September 15, 1942 and his mother was taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp , he himself was placed in a penal company as politically unreliable . While attempting to overflow to the Red Army , he was seriously wounded by a Wehrmacht officer. At the end of 1944 he stood before the Supreme Court Martial after further military service.

He met his mother, who had been freed from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, again in Mannheim after the end of the Second World War . In Württemberg-Baden, she first became a member of the state constitutional assembly for the KPD and later the first state parliament and city councilor in Mannheim. After his application in Karlsruhe was rejected, Kurt Langendorf moved to the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) and began studying physics and later economics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

Langendorf, who became a member of the VVN and the SED , worked for several years at the University of Jena as a lecturer and institute director after completing his studies and founding the German Democratic Republic . After a two-year study visit to the People's Republic of China , he successfully defended his dissertation on May 15, 1959 at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED on the subject of the socialist transformation of capitalist industry in the transition period to socialism in the People's Republic of China .

After his work and his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin on July 22, 1965 with a habilitation thesis on the theory of wages and wage planning in the new economic system , he accepted the call as a full professor at the trade union college "Fritz Heckert" in Bernau in Berlin and worked there beyond his retirement until 1985.

After 1990 he became involved in the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters in the Berlin-Weißensee district and in 2004 became chairman of the Berlin Association of Former Participants in the Anti-Fascist Resistance, Persecuted by the Nazi Regime and Survivors (BV VdN). After its merger with the VVN-BdA to form the Berlin regional association, he and Hans Coppi junior became chairman of the VVN-BdA Berlin regional association before becoming its honorary chairman in 2009.

Publications

Langendorf wrote several specialist books such as:

• in the series Political Economy of Socialism ,
• a distance learning course at the Humboldt University,
• the individual volumes
  • The socialist production conditions in the GDR (1966) and
  • Scheduled Expanded Socialist Reproduction: The Self-contained System of Economic Levers (1966).
• In the scientific journal of the Humboldt University in Berlin ( social and linguistic series , 1964) appeared: On the theory of socialist property .
• His other publications included Unions versus Convergence Theory , 1969.

Web links

• Obituary (Homepage of VVN-BdA Berlin, page accessed on August 17, 2011) (PDF; 26 kB)
• Entry by Kurt Langendorf in the Antifa Wiki