Kurt Meier (resistance fighter)

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Kurt Meier (born September 26, 1910 ; † March 11, 2008 ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism and an engineering economist .

Life

Meier was already politically active in his youth. After attending school, he joined the Communist Party of Germany at the age of 17 . In 1935, he was by the Nazis for resisting the Nazis in the concentration camp Sachsenburg and after its dissolution in 1937 in prison Osterstein Castle in Zwickau detained.

After the end of the Second World War, Meier was one of the first activists in the Soviet occupation zone . He played a decisive personal role in building the union in the consumer cooperative in the GDR, in which he held leading positions. From 1953 to 1958, he was chairman of the board of the Karl-Marx-Stadt consumer cooperative . At the same time, Meier gained further professional qualifications as an engineering economist. Due to his economic experience, he was appointed works director of the VEB "Zwickauer Breweries" in 1959. He held this office until he reached early retirement age in 1973.

For decades, Meier was a member of the SED in the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters of the GDR formed in 1953 in the area of ​​maintaining tradition. After the political change in 1989/90 he remained a member of the party. Most recently he was the oldest member of the Zwickau-Weißenborn base group of the DIE LINKE party . He died at the age of 97 after receiving the congratulations for his 80-year membership in the party in March 2008, just before his death.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Behnert : Obituary for our oldest comrade . In: Linker Blick, 4/2008, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter and engineering economist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1910
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2008