Max Lademann

Memorial plaque for Max Lademann on his house at Stadtgutweg 27, Halle (Saale)

Max Lademann (born May 17, 1896 in Leipzig , † March 21, 1941 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German politician (KPD).

Live and act

Life in the Empire (1896 to 1918)

Lademann was born in 1896 as the son of a master painter. He attended secondary school in Saalfeld and secondary school in Remscheid . He later completed an apprenticeship as a coppersmith in Hamburg and attended the local technical college. In 1913 Lademann broke with his middle-class parents and joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

During the First World War he was a member of the 13th Dragoon Regiment . In 1918 Lademann was in command of a troop of Budjonny riders of the Red Cavalry Army .

Life in the Weimar Republic (1919 to 1933)

After the war, Lademann became a member of the USPD . In March 1920 Lademann took part in the fight against the Kapp putschists in the Roßleben area as the leader of the potash miners .

Later in 1920 he came with the left wing of the USPD to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), in which he was initially primarily involved in the proletarian youth movement. In the KPD, Lademann was included in the so-called “Compromisers Group” over the next few years. Around 1928 he broke away from this and turned to the line of the Moscow-based party leadership around Ernst Thalmann .

In 1921 Lademann actively fought in the communist uprising known as the “ March Action ”. Because of these and similar actions, Hirschinger judged that, taking into account Lademann's biography, "one [could] assume that Lademann was distinguished by militancy." Later in 1921, Lademann became secretary of the party sub-district of Querfurt, which was dominated by radical miners -Sangerhausen-Mansfeld ordered. There he organized proletarian hundreds and in 1924 the Red Front Fighters League (RFB). At that time, Kurt Rosenbaum characterized Lademann as a “good union secretary, albeit still a little weak in political matters”.

In May 1924 Lademann was elected as a KPD candidate for constituency 11 (Merseburg) in the Reichstag, of which he was a member until December of the same year. A one-year prison sentence, to which Lademann had been sentenced for his involvement in preparations for a communist overthrow in March 1924, was waived after his election to parliament.

In 1924 Lademann also became a member of the Prussian state parliament for the first time, to which he belonged until 1933. He also became a member of the city council of Eisleben that year . In January 1925, Lademann was appointed union secretary. A few months later he moved to the head of the district leadership of the KPD district Halle-Merseburg, in which he mainly worked as an organizational secretary. In the following years he played a crucial role in eliminating the internal party opposition. In an internal report on statements made by members of the sub-district management in Delitzsch, it was stated in April 1929 that "Lademann is a person who is absolutely incapable and could never lead the district."

Lademann was a member and functionary of the German Metalworkers' Association (temporarily chairman of the Eisleben local group) and the ADGB . In 1927 Lademann was expelled from the union by the reformist leaders.

In 1932, at the instigation of the Brunswick state government, to which the National Socialists belonged, Lademann was taken into protective custody for one day and held in the Wolfenbüttel prison.

Life under National Socialism (1933 to 1941)

After the National Socialist " seizure of power ", Lademann was arrested on April 19, 1933. By December 1934 he was sentenced to three times imprisonment, the last time in December 1934 by the People's Court to three years in prison . After serving his regular prison sentences in the penal institutions of Kassel-Wehlheiden and Bautzen , he was taken into “ protective custody ” and held in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Here he belonged to the illegal camp leadership of the KPD. Lademann died in concentration camp detention while defusing duds .

Honors

Memorial plaques on the Reichstag

In the GDR , a district party school was named after Lademann. In Halle (Saale) , the Max-Lademann-Straße named after him and a memorial plaque on the outside of his house in Stadtgutweg No. 27 remind of him. In Berlin there is an individual memorial plaque for Lademann at the intersection of Scheidemannstrasse / Platz der Republik, which is part of the memorial inaugurated in 1992 to commemorate 96 members of the Reichstag who were murdered by the Nazi regime . A shaft in the Mansfeld copper district was named after him. In Eisleben, the former “secondary school on Rühlemannplatz” was named after Lademann, and there is still a memorial plaque on it today. There is also a Max-Lademann-Strasse in Eisleben.

literature

• Lademann, Max . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

• Max Lademann in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Community Foundation Halle: Education in passing: Max-Lademann-Straße . Retrieved May 26, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ^ German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and Letters , p. 565.
2. ↑ Frank Hirschinger: Gestapo agents, Trotskyites, traitors , 2005, p. 62.
3. ↑ quoted in Frank Hirschinger: Gestapoagenten, Trotskists, Verräter , 2005, p. 61.
4. ↑ quoted in Frank Hirschinger: Gestapoagenten, Trotskists, Verräter , 2005, p. 81.
5. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 354.
6. ↑ Clotildeschacht, later Max-Lademann-Schacht ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ "Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism. A documentation by Stefanie Endlich / Nora Goldenbogen / Beatrix Herlemann / Monika Kahl / Regina Scheer. Volume II: Federal states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia. Ed. By of the Federal Agency for Civic Education Bonn 1999, p. 528f., ISBN 3-89331-391-5 "