Max Emendörfer
Max Emendörfer (born December 2, 1911 in Tübingen , † June 18, 1974 in East Berlin ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism and a journalist.
Life
The shoemaker Max Emendörfer joined the KPD in 1931 . After the "takeover" of the Nazi party , he was arrested several times. In October 1934 he was sentenced to one year in prison, then from 1935 to 1937 he was imprisoned in the Esterwegen and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. In order to avoid the Gestapo's recruitment attempts , he volunteered for the Wehrmacht . Stationed on the Eastern Front since the end of 1941, he deserted to join the Red Army in January 1942 . Emendörfer became a member and vice-president of the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD), initiated by the Soviet leadership in July 1943 , to which, in addition to communist emigrants such as Walter Ulbricht and Wilhelm Pieck , mainly prisoners of war belonged. He also acted as the front-line representative of this organization, which called on German Wehrmacht soldiers to resist through newspapers and radio broadcasts.
In August 1945 he returned to Berlin, where he under the pretext undercover agent to have been the Gestapo, first again in the special camp no. 7 (the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp) was then imprisoned in the Soviet Union from 1947. In 1952 he was sentenced to ten years' exile in Siberia. He was released to the GDR in 1956. The proceedings against him were discontinued because of the lack of evidence, which amounted to rehabilitation. He was then deported to Halle (Saale) , where he worked as an editor for the SED district newspaper Freiheit (the SED newspaper for the Halle district ) until 1969 . His son Jan Emendörfer , born in 1963 , also became a journalist.
In 1990 the Party of Democratic Socialism rehabilitated Emendorfer politically .
Works
- Return to the front. Experiences of a German anti-fascist. Berlin (East) 1972.
literature
- GdW folder, 20.2: National Committee Free Germany ; Sheet 20.3: Association of German Officers.
- Jan Emendörfer : Ostracized. My father Max Emendörfer, 2nd, through. Edition, Koch, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-935319-64-5 .
- Wolfgang Benz , Walter H. Pehle : Lexicon of the German resistance. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-10-005702-3 , pp. 257-267, 344.
- Gerd R. Ueberschär (Ed.): The National Committee “Free Germany” and the Association of German Officers. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-12633-9 , ( Fischer 12633 history ), (The time of National Socialism) .
- Eva Bliembach: Flyer propaganda by the National Committee “Free Germany”. In: Peter Steinbach , Johannes Tuchel (eds.): Resistance against National Socialism. Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-89331-195-5 , ( series of publications of the Federal Agency for Political Education 323), pp. 488–494.
- Peter Erler : Emendörfer, Max . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lothar Hornbogen: Political Rehabilitation - A Lesson from Our History
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Emendörfer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jan Emendörfer : Moscow's mouthpiece in World War II - 75 years ago the National Committee “Free Germany” was founded in the Soviet Union to mobilize the Wehrmacht against Hitler. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Emendörfer, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, resistance fighter from the Nazi era |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1974 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |