Ludwig Marmulla

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Ludwig Marmulla (born February 6, 1908 in Buer , † November 18, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German politician, communist and resistance fighter .

life and work

As a miner, Ludwig Marmulla was unionized early on. In 1928 he moved to Berlin, where he initially worked as a transport worker in the Marienhütte glass factory in Berlin-Köpenick . As a youth spokesman, he campaigned for the interests of the workers, which is why he lost his job in 1929. Privately, he attended the adult education center (lectures in philosophy and art history) and the Natural History Museum (lectures on hereditary theory and natural history). From 1930 he worked at the C. Lorenz company as a transport worker. Here, too, he was fired for his union and political activities.

In 1930 Ludwig Marmulla joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Union of Metalworkers in Berlin (EVMB). He also organized himself in the unemployment committee in the KPD sub-district Berlin-Neukölln . From 1931 he was deputy chairman of this unemployment committee. He attended the Marxist Workers' School (MASCH) and worked as a union teacher. As a speaker for the KPD in 1931/32 he was also active in the Düren district , then the Aachen region . A miner by the name of Marmulla from Mariadorf near Alsdorf is mentioned several times in the police reports.

After Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933, the persecution of the communists began . Ludwig Marmulla was briefly imprisoned for selling illegal literature. With the ban on the EVMB by the National Socialists , Ludwig Marmulla organized and headed the illegality of the EVMB as secretary in the fourth district . He was also an instructor for the KPD in Berlin-Moabit . In 1934 he was arrested again and sentenced to 1 year and 5 months in prison for preparation for high treason. After his release, Ludwig Marmulla belonged to the resistance group around John Sieg in Berlin-Neukölln. Through his connection to Paul Junius , he found a job as a welder in 1936 at the armaments company Koch & Krüger. In the same year Ludwig Marmulla switched to the Otto Peschke company in Berlin, which manufactured steel radiators (radiators). In the branch offices of this company he got information about arms production and also about the V-weapons program in Peenemünde . Ludwig Marmulla passed this information on to Paul Junius.

In February 1943, Ludwig Marmulla was drafted into a tank destroyer company in the Penal Battalion 999 . On Rhodes used, he fell in April 1945 in British captivity . Here, too, Ludwig Marmulla remained politically active and appeared as the political leader of the anti-fascists .

In 1947 Ludwig Marmulla returned to Germany. He worked in various functions in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1947 he became an editor in the press department of the Central Committee of the SED. In the following years he worked, among other things, as department head of the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland (ND). In 1957 he was the foreign correspondent of the ND in Prague . Then he became editor-in-chief of the foreign magazine "DDR in Wort und Bild", from 1963 deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine " Neue Berliner Illustrierte ". In 1967 he retired.

literature

  • Stefan Heinz : Ludwig Marmulla (1908–1990) , In: Stefan Heinz, Siegfried Mielke (Hrsg.): Functionaries of the unified association of metal workers in Berlin in the Nazi state. Resistance and persecution (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - resistance - emigration. Volume 2). Metropol, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-062-2 , pp. 207-210.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 514.
  • Penal Division 999, Deutscher Militärverlag, Berlin 1965, p. 330

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig: Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR, Volume 1 + 2, 1996, p. 514
  2. ^ Peter Staatz: The Reich and Landtag elections in the Düren district during the Weimar Republic, publisher: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1994, p. 266
  3. ^ Penalty Division 999, Deutscher Militärverlag, Berlin 1965, p. 330
personal data
SURNAME Marmulla, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD, SED), communist and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Buer
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1990
Place of death Berlin