Max Spangenberg

Max Spangenberg (born November 2, 1907 in Berlin ; † March 27, 1987 ) was the head of the labor office of the Western Commission of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR .

Spangenberg trained as a precision mechanic at AEG Berlin from 1924 to 1929 . 1930–1932 he was a functionary of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) in Berlin, Halle and Düsseldorf , until 1933 political employee of the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow and until 1935 employee of the KJVD in Berlin and Prague . 1937–1938 he was a participant in the Spanish Civil War , first as editor of Radio Barcelona , then as a member of the party committee of the XI. International Brigade . After that he worked illegally for the KPD in Copenhagen .

In 1946 he returned to Germany and worked for the Deutsche Volkszeitung and the New Germany , from 1949 as editor-in-chief of Germany's voice , the organ of the National Council of the National Front , and from 1951 as editor-in-chief of the Berliner Zeitung . In 1952 he was a reporter for the SED on the peace movement in the Federal Republic of Germany and from 1954 until its dissolution in 1971 he was deputy head of department or head of the work office of the Western Commission of the Politburo of the SED Central Committee. Afterwards he was a research assistant at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED .

Spangenberg received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver on May 6, 1955 , and in 1967 in gold. In 1972 he was awarded the Karl Marx Order , in 1977 with the Honor Clasp for the Patriotic Order of Merit. His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

literature

• Michael F. Scholz :  Spangenberg, Max . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists . Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Second, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).