Max Reitersleben

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Max Reitersleben (born February 21, 1900 in Parszin , Konitz district ; † August 10, 1979 ) was a German KPD and SED functionary and FDGB functionary. From 1946 to 1950 he was chairman of the chemical industry union .

Life

Reitersleben, son of a working-class family, attended elementary school . He came to Berlin in 1913 , where he completed an apprenticeship and worked as a locksmith, construction and metal worker. From 1914 to 1918 he served as a soldier in the First World War .

In 1918 he joined the Spartakusbund and was a founding member of the KPD. In 1919 he became a member of the German Metalworkers' Association . From 1928 to 1932 he was a member of the closer KPD district leadership Berlin-Brandenburg, from 1928 to 1930 at the same time political director of the XX. Administrative district of the KPD Berlin (Reinickendorf). From 1930 to October 1932 Reitersleben was head of the Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus (KgF) Berlin-Brandenburg and a member of the Reich leadership of the KgF. From 1930 to 1932 Reitersleben was head of department at the German trading center for Russian oil products.

After 1933 he participated in the resistance against the Nazi regime . He was arrested in April 1933, remained in " protective custody " until 1934 and was then placed under police supervision. Nevertheless, he resumed his resistance activities in the group around Albert Kayser . From 1935 to 1939 he worked as a metal worker at Knorr-Bremse in Berlin. In August 1939 he was arrested again and sentenced to 2¾ years imprisonment, which he spent in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . After he was released, he was placed under police supervision again. Drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1942, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1945 .

Reitersleben returned to the SBZ and in 1946 became a member of the SED and the FDGB. From June 1946 to July 1950 he was the first chairman of the central board of IG Chemie and from 1946 to 1950 he was also a member of the FDGB federal board. In 1949/50 he was also a member of the SED's ZPKK . From 1951 he was director of VVB Öle und Margarine Magdeburg . From 1952 to 1956 he was head of department at VEB Progress Film-Verleih Berlin.

literature

  • Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, p. 1003.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 702.

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personal data
SURNAME Reitersleben, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German KPD and SED functionary and FDGB functionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Parszin
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1979