Manfred Kapluck

Manfred Kapluck (* March 1929 in Essen ; † December 11, 2014 ibid), alias and nickname "Chapel", was a German party functionary ( KPD , DKP ).

Life

Manfred Kapluck was a co-founder of the FDJ in the Federal Republic of Germany and from 1949 to 1952 head of the Young Pioneers . As an FDJ member, he was in prison in 1951 and 1952. He was active in the KPD until it was banned in 1956, where, among other things, secretary for mass work, responsible for Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. In the following years he continued to work illegally despite being banned from the party and in 1960 became a member of the Politburo and Central Committee of the illegal KPD. He was on the wanted list of the Federal Republic of Germany for 13 years.

In 1961, Kapluck co-founded the small party German Peace Union (DFU), which was dissolved in 1990 after funding from the SED ended. He worked for the student courier of the community for German student history and later for the magazine concrete .

After founding the DKP, he was a member of the Presidium and Chairman of the Ruhr-Westphalia district for a total of twelve years . From 1990 he worked for the Marx-Engels-Foundation .

In 2006 Manfred Kapluck left the DKP and joined the left . He died of a stroke in 2014 and lived in Essen-Eiberg.

Publications

Political theories of Marxism in the course of historical developments. Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag (Marx-Engels-Stiftung), Cologne 1991, ISBN 978-3-891441-190
New thinking and Marxist philosophy. Marx-Engels-Foundation, 1991, ISBN 978-3-928000-017

Web links

Parties / DKP: Long process. Der Spiegel 25/1969.
Werner Höfer : "22 percent for the communists". A conversation with two KPD people who want to become “legal” again. The time of March 31, 1967.
Memorial event for Manfred Kapluck

Individual evidence

↑ Manfred Kapluck: We experienced a lot of solidarity. In: Barbara Felsmann: I always cried with the little trumpeter. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-931-836-55-X , p. 213.
^ Came to LINKEN from KPD via DKP: Memorial event for Manfred Kapluck. lokalkompass.de. January 2, 2020. Accessed January 2, 2020.
↑ Junge Welt, March 12, 2015
↑ "I got this newspaper through" Manfred Kapluck and the banned KPD - excerpts from the book by Bettina Röhl spiegel.de of March 13, 2006, accessed on January 1, 2020
↑ ^a ^b Manfred Kapluck (1929 - 2014) ( Memento from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Zeitzeugen-TV.com. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
↑ Günter Blocks: Came from the KPD to the LINKEN via the DKP: Memorial event for Manfred Kapluck. lokalkompass.de. March 30, 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Kapluck, Manfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chapel (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German party functionary (KPD, DKP)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	eat
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 2014
Place of death	eat

[1] Manfred Kapluck: We experienced a lot of solidarity. In: Barbara Felsmann: I always cried with the little trumpeter. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-931-836-55-X , p. 213.

[2] Came to LINKEN from KPD via DKP: Memorial event for Manfred Kapluck. lokalkompass.de. January 2, 2020. Accessed January 2, 2020.

[3] Junge Welt, March 12, 2015

[4] "I got this newspaper through" Manfred Kapluck and the banned KPD - excerpts from the book by Bettina Röhl spiegel.de of March 13, 2006, accessed on January 1, 2020

[zz-tv-5] Manfred Kapluck (1929 - 2014) ( Memento from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Zeitzeugen-TV.com. Retrieved January 10, 2016.

[lokalkompass-6] Günter Blocks: Came from the KPD to the LINKEN via the DKP: Memorial event for Manfred Kapluck. lokalkompass.de. March 30, 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2016.