Linus Hamann

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Linus Hamann (born April 21, 1903 , † November 29, 1985 ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ) and cultural functionary.

Life

Hamann attended elementary school as well as trade and trade school. He completed an apprenticeship as a clerk and then worked in a Radebeul company.

From 1919 to 1925 he was chairman of the Socialist Workers' Youth in Radebeul and Dresden . In 1919 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1928 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). From 1929 to 1933 he was an employee of the Marxist Workers' School (MASCH). In 1933 he was political leader of the KPD Radebeul. After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists he was arrested and from May to November 1933 was imprisoned in the Hohnstein concentration camp and in a Dresden prison. In 1940 he was drafted into the army for military service. At the beginning of April 1945 Hamann deserted .

Hamann was one of the organizers of the Antifa in Radebeul and from June 1945 worked as the political leader of the KPD in the Radebeul area. Hamann actively supported the unification of the KPD and SPD and was elected on April 1, 1946 as equal district chairman of the SED Rochlitz . From April 1947 to March 1950 he headed the SED state party school in Ottendorf . From April 1950 to April 1954 he worked as a consultant and department head for popular education in the Dresden city administration. From April 1954 he was secretary for culture and education in the Dresden city administration of the SED. From 1955 to 1957 Hamann was secretary in the Dresden district management of the Kulturbund , then head of the Dresden City Museums and Dresden City Collections . In 1964 Hamann retired.

His estate is in the Saxon Main State Archives in Dresden .

Awards

literature

  • Central Committee of the SED congratulates Comrade Linus Hamann . In: Neues Deutschland , April 21, 1983, p. 2.
  • Mike Schmeitzner: Schools of dictatorship. The cadre training of the KPD / SED in Saxony 1945–1952 (= Reports and Studies , Volume 33). Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism. Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-931648-36-2 , p. 89 and passim .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. also Linus Hamann: Brothers in one hands now . ( Union of KPD and SPD 1945/46 ). In: The preview. Radebeul (1961), No. 4, pp. 2-6.
  2. ↑ Saxon Main State Archives  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archiv.sachsen.de  
personal data
SURNAME Hamann, Linus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD / SED), cultural functionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1903
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1985