Max Friedemann

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Congratulations for participants in the youth consecration on March 30, 1958 in the Berlin theater of friendship

Max Friedemann , called Mäcki (born February 13, 1905 in Orsoy ; † November 10, 1986 ) was a German - Jewish communist resistance fighter against National Socialism , interbrigadist , fighter in the Resistance , member of the German Economic Commission (DWK), operations manager of VEB Stahl - and Riesa rolling mills and the GDR Trade Council in Beijing .

Life

Friedemann came from the family of the department store owner Simon Friedemann and his wife Emma. He was one of seven children. Most members of the Friedemann family were victims of the Shoah , including his twin brother Kurt.

Max Friedemann joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the Weimar Republic and worked in the International Red Aid (IRH). Together with his wife Golda, who were both Jewish and both communists, he left Germany in 1934. With a detour via Denmark they landed in Spain . Here Max Friedmann took part in the fight to defend the Spanish republic . In July 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona, ​​he formed the Thälmann Group .

After the end of the Spanish Civil War , the couple fled to France on February 11, 1939 , where they were detained and interned in several camps . When they were able to flee from the Gurs camp , Max joined the Resistance and fought there with the rank of commandant . After the liberation of Paris he joined the “ Movement Free Germany in the West ” (equal to: CALPO - Comité “Allemagne libre” pour l'Ouest).

When the Nazi rule was eliminated , the Friedemanns returned to Germany in 1946. They made a conscious decision to build their future life in the eastern part of Germany: "To do everything so that history does not repeat itself" was always his father's concern, says André Friedemann, their son, who was born in Carcassonne in 1944, in an interview . Friedemann joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and became head of the press department at the German Economic Commission. Later he was entrusted with the management of the Riesa steel and rolling mill. His last state function was that of a trade council in the People's Republic of China .

Since February 1953, he brought his experiences in resistance against National Socialism to work on history and politics as a member of the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters .

Honors

literature

  • Dora Schaul (Ed.): Resistance. Memories of German anti-fascists . ISBN 978-3320006013
  • Elke Reuter, Detlef Hansel: The short life of the VVN from 1947 to 1953: The history of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Soviet Zone and GDR. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-97-4 , p. 567

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A family from Orsoy. Retrieved July 17, 2011
  2. ↑ http://www.aus-der-ddr.de/lexikon/held_der_arbeit-lid_1000001418.html?ex Retrieved July 17, 2011
  3. ^ New Germany , March 25, 1965, p. 2
  4. ^ Neue Zeit , October 4, 1974, p. 2
  5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung, March 7, 1980, p. 4
  6. ↑ Neues Deutschland, March 1, 1985, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Friedemann, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mäcki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist in the Resistance
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Orsoy
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1986