Ludwig Einicke

Ludwig Einicke (born August 12, 1904 in Nordhausen , † October 11, 1975 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SED ). For many years he was director of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED .

Life

Einicke was born in 1904 as the son of a clerk and a seamstress. He attended elementary school and trained as a model maker from 1918 to 1922. From 1919 he was a member of the youth organization Socialist Proletarian Youth of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). In 1920 he founded the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KVJD) in Nordhausen. Because of his political activities, he was arrested in 1923 and spent eleven months in custody in Erfurt. In 1925 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). From 1926 to 1927 he was sub-district leader of the KJVD and 1927 to 1928 as sub-district leader of the KPD. He was also a member of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) and International Workers Aid (IAH). Between 1928 and 1932 he was arrested for several press offenses and sentenced to a total of twelve months in prison for participating in prohibited demonstrations. From 1932 to 1934 he attended the International Lenin School in Moscow and then returned to Saarbrücken . In 1934/35 he worked as an advisor to the Central Committee of the KJVD in the districts of Berlin and Wasserkante (Hamburg). In January 1935 he was arrested for his anti-fascist activities in Eckernförde and sentenced to three years in prison for "preparing for high treason". After the prison he was held in various concentration camps until the end of the war. a. in KZ Moor camp Papenburg , concentration camp Lublin , Buchenwald , Auschwitz and Mauthausen .

post war period

In July 1945 Einicke returned to Berlin. In Halle (Saale) he was first editor of the “Volkszeitung” and then secretary for agitation and propaganda of the KPD state leadership of Saxony-Anhalt. In 1946 he became a member of the SED and from 1946 to 1950 belonged to the secretariat of the SED state executive and the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. After the escape of the minister of education of Saxony-Anhalt Ernst Thape to West Germany in November 1948 and the subsequent dismissal of his deputy, the ministerial director Otto Halle , he was appointed as successor of Halle as ministerial director and head of the central department in the ministry for national education of Saxony-Anhalt. As such, he headed the ministry for four months until the appointment of the new minister Richard Schallock on March 22, 1949, and held this position until 1950. From mid-1950 to 1952 he was head of department or secretary in the SED state leadership in Thuringia and completed a distance learning course at the Karl Marx party college , which he graduated in 1953. From August to December 1952 he acted as the second secretary of the newly formed SED district leadership in Erfurt. In August 1953, he succeeded Anton Ackermann as director of the Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Institute , which he remained until 1962. He was responsible for the decision of the Central Committee of the SED on the publication of the Marx-Engels works in 39 volumes on the basis of the Russian edition. From 1958 to 1962 he was editor-in-chief of "Contributions to the History of the Labor Movement". On May 6, 1955 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and in 1958 the medal for fighters against fascism from 1933 to 1945 . From 1962 to 1969 he was deputy director of the German State Library and also became a member of the presidium of the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters . In 1969, when he retired, he was awarded the Karl Marx Order . Even after that, he worked as a political collaborator in the committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters until his death. In his last years he was also the editor of the magazine Der Antifaschististan Resistance Fighter . In 1974 he was awarded the Medal of Honor for the Patriotic Order of Merit .

literature

• Einicke, Ludwig : In: Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Hrsg.): SBZ biography . 3rd edition. Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Bonn / Berlin 1964, p. 77 f.
• Ludwig Einicke. Obituary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany . In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement . 17th year, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1975, issue 6, p. 1065.
• Life and struggle of comrade Ludwig Einicke . Ed. Commission for research into the history of the local labor movement at the Nordhausen district leadership of the SED. Nordhausen 1983.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 436.
• Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Andreas Herbst , Christine Krauss, Daniel Küchenmeister (eds.): The parties and organizations of the GDR: A manual, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-320-01988-0 , p. 925 f.
• Andreas Schmidt: "... ride with you or be thrown off". The forced unification of the KPD and SPD in the province of Saxony / in the state of Saxony-Anhalt 1945 - 1949 . LIT Verlag Münster, Münster 2004, p. 81. Digitized
• Sick, Ludwig . In: Carl-Erich Vollgraf, Richard Sperl, Rolf Hecker (eds.): Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode. Special volume 5. The Marx-Engels editions of works in the USSR and GDR (1945–1968). 1945 - New beginning or continuation of the Marx-Engels-Edition? The Russian Marx-Engels work edition. The publication of the MEW in the GDR and its editors. To the reception based on the first MEGA and MEW. Documentation. In search of the SPD library 1947/46. Marx documents from the Longuet family archive. Letters from Roman Rosdolsky to Karl Korsch (1950–54) . Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-88619-691-7 , p. 481.
• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader. The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, p. 166 f.
• Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Einicke, Ludwig . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Einicke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography of Ludwig Einicke on "Nordhausen under National Socialism - A Guide"