Max Dankner
Max Dankner (born May 7, 1911 in Dresden ; † April 13, 1992 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism , KPD and SED functionary.
Life
After attending primary school from 1926 to 1930, the son of a self-employed businessman learned the trade of cabinet maker. He was a cousin of Fred, Max and Josef Zimmering as well as Lea Grundig and Bruno Goldhammer . Like his brother Hans, Dankner was involved in the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) in the late 1920s . He was after the takeover of the National Socialists were for illegal work as a District Manager of KJVD in Dresden in July 1933 for three weeks SA detention and ill-treated there. Imprisoned again in October 1933, he was sentenced to one year in prison for preparation for high treason and then expatriated from the German Reich in 1935, being of Jewish origin and officially a Polish citizen . He emigrated to Czechoslovakia and became a member of the KPD there in 1936.
In January 1938 he emigrated to Spain, from March 1938 to February 1939 he participated in the Spanish Civil War as a member of the International Brigades , most recently in the rank of sergeant . In February 1939 he emigrated to France and was then interned in the Saint-Cyprien , Gurs and Argelès-sur-Mer camps until April 1941 . After his escape from the fortress of Mont-Louis in April 1941, he lived illegally in France, worked on the railroad, as a woodcutter and in road construction. From 1943 he supported the Resistance and fought as a partisan in the Cevennes , most recently with the rank of lieutenant . After the end of the Second World War , he returned to Germany in June 1945.
Until the forced unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany, Dankner was secretary of the KPD district leadership in Dresden and also took on this function for the SED. In 1949 he joined the German People's Police and was political commander in the state fire protection office of Saxony until 1951. From 1951 to July 1952 he was Secretary for Economics of the SED regional leadership in Saxony-Anhalt and from August 1952 to June 1958 in the same function in the SED district leadership in Halle . In 1958/59 he studied at the party college at the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow. After brief work in the SED Central Committee, he was again Secretary for Economics of the SED district leadership in Halle from 1960 to 1962. From June 1962 to March 1967 he was chairman of the Halle district association of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) and at the same time a member of the FDGB federal executive committee until 1968.
In 1967 he was dismissed from the position of chairman of the FDGB district board in Halle, as he had criticized the Stalinist course of Walter Ulbricht and Horst Sindermann .
Most recently he was a member of the Halle district committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters .
Awards
- 1955: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 1961: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1976: Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- 1981: Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
- 1986: Order of the Star of Friendship of Nations in silver
literature
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
- Werner Dietrich: Max Dankner: biographical sketch of a combative anti-fascist , IVVdN , Halle, 2006, ISBN 3-928466-89-5 .
- Andreas Herbst: Dankner, Max . In: Dieter Dowe, Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990) . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .
- Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , pp. 149f.
Web links
- Max Dankner in the DRAFD Wiki
- Page about Max Dankner's work in the Resistance (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany from May 1, 1976.
- ^ New Germany of May 2, 1981.
Siegfried Michl (1952) | Paul Müller (1952) | Paul Niebuhr (1952–1953) | Paul Keck (1953–1955) | Helmut Kriegel (1955–1962) | Max Dankner (1962–1967) | Hans-Joachim Winkler (1967–1971) | Richard Pieper (1971–1980) | Werner Oertelt (1980–1989) | Heino Ernst (1989–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dankner, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Banelle, Paul (code name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German anti-fascist resistance fighter and SED and trade union functionary in the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1992 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |