Max Schäller

Max Schäller (born November 2, 1902 in Schönau , † July 11, 1974 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazi regime and SED functionary. He was chairman of the District Party Control Commission (BPKK) Karl-Marx-Stadt of the SED.

Life

Schäller, son of a stocking weaver , attended a training school and then worked as an unskilled worker and drill. He joined the Communist Youth in 1919 and from 1921 was head of the KJVD sub-district Chemnitz and a member of the KJVD district management Erzgebirge / Vogtland . In 1926 he joined the KPD. From 1924 to 1933 he worked as a newspaper driver and as a dispatch manager at the Chemnitz printing and publishing company "Der Kämp".

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he actively participated in the resistance against the Nazi regime. In 1939 he was arrested and to two years and three months prison convicted. He was first imprisoned in various prisons and then in Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

After liberation from the concentration camp in 1945, he became head of sales for the newspaper “ Volksstimme ” in Chemnitz and was involved in building up the socialist press. In 1946 he joined the SED and from 1948 to 1950 was the dispatch manager of the Central Magazine and Newspaper Publishing House in Chemnitz. In 1950/51 he was an instructor at the “Sachsdruck” publishing house in Chemnitz. In 1951 he was elected chairman of the district party control commission of the SED in Flöha . From 1952 he was a member or from 1955 to 1961 chairman of the BPKK Karl-Marx-Stadt of the SED as well as a member of the SED district leadership Karl-Marx-Stadt and its office. Schäller was released from his position as chairman and member of the district party control commission on December 15, 1961 by a plenum of the SED district leadership in Karl-Marx-Stadt in the presence of Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker . With him four other functionaries were replaced for "violating Lenin's norms". From 1962 to 1965 he worked as a manager at VEB Schraubenwerk Karl-Marx-Stadt.

Awards and honors

• Medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945 (1958)
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1958)
• The Max-Schäller-Strasse in Chemnitz-Morgenleite ( Fritz Heckert residential area ) is named after him.

literature

• Street names in Karl-Marx-Stadt . Karl-Marx-Stadt-Information 1989, p. 41.
• Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 290.
• 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 , pp. 761f ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Communique of the 10th meeting of the district leadership in Karl-Marx-Stadt . In: Neues Deutschland , December 16, 1961, p. 2.