Otto Hall

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Otto Halle as a former prisoner after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp with an identification number. He was photographed as a potential witness for a later trial against the Buchenwald concentration camp administration.

Otto Halle (born October 1, 1903 , † June 14, 1987 ) was a German communist and writer. He was involved in the resistance in Buchenwald concentration camp .

Life

Halle was arrested on March 3, 1933, came to the Sonnenburg concentration camp via prisons in Halle (Saale) and Berlin-Alexanderplatz, and was then forced to do emergency work. In 1935 he was arrested again. From 1937 to 1945 he was a prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp and from 1939 to 1945 he was a Kapo of the prisoners' clothing store. In order to enable him to work more effectively in the camp resistance as part of this prisoner function, he received support from Otto Sepke through the illegal party committee of the KPD .

After the liberation from National Socialism , he became a member of the KPD district leadership in Halle-Merseburg and in May 1946 head of the public education department of the provincial administration of Saxony, then as ministerial director head of the central department in the Ministry for public education, art and science of Saxony-Anhalt . In his role as President Halle had "an essential part in an exaggerated rigorous implementation of the Marxist party line" at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg as well as "his university advisor Friedrich Elchlepp " (1897-1956).

In 1948 Halle was removed from this position on the instructions of Walter Ulbricht as part of a campaign against the top social democratic functionaries in the SED because of his good cooperation with the former social democrat and Buchenwald prisoner Ernst Thape . Halle was withdrawn from the ministry on the pretext that he had insufficient political education. He was then registered for an eight-month course at the SED party university in Kleinmachnow . After completion of this course and the escape Thapes that had taken place in the meantime, Halle was appointed head of department for higher education and scientific institutions in the GDR Ministry of Education until he was ousted in November 1950 .

From 1951 to 1953 Halle worked for the radio of the GDR and then until 1955 head of the Seemann publishing house in Leipzig . He was a member of the GDR Writers' Union and last lived in East Berlin . Halle was the father of the head of the agitation department of the MfS Günter Halle . He died at the age of 83 and was buried in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Mansfeld. Memory novel. Dietz Verlag: Berlin 1961
  • Hard on hard: the path and transformation of a person. Congress publisher: Berlin 1959
  • Hanna Elling (Ed.): In the middle of deep night. Poems from concentration camps and prisons of German fascism 1933-1945. Frankfurt / Main 1990 In it: Otto Halle: To my son
  • But the time will come for us too. In: Volker Kühn: Germany's Awakening: Cabaret under the swastika 1933-1945. P. 302ff.

honors and awards

literature

  • Walter Bartel : Buchenwald: Warning and obligation - documents and reports. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1983, 4th, completely revised edition.
  • Detlef Hoffmann : The memory of things: concentration camp relics and concentration camp memorials 1945–1995. , Scientific series of the Fritz Bauer Institute Volume 4, Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1998, ISBN 3-593-35445-4 .
  • Manfred Heinemann (ed.). University officers and the reconstruction of higher education in Germany 1945-1949 , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-05-002851-3 , p. 311.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When it started . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 29, 1973, p. 11.
  2. ^ Lieberwirth, Rolf: History of the Law Faculty of the University of Halle-Wittenberg after 1945. Facts and memories . Cologne / Munich 2008, p. 22; ISBN 978-3-452-26840-2
  3. ↑ Marianne Müller, Egon Erwin Müller: … storm the science fortress! GoogleBooks
  4. ^ ZK congratulates Comrade Otto Halle . In: Neues Deutschland , October 3, 1968, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Obituary notice of his relatives . In: Neues Deutschland, July 8, 1987, p. 7.
  6. ↑ Berliner Zeitung, May 7, 1965, p. 4.
  7. ^ New Germany, October 6, 1973, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Halle, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD, SED)
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1903
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1987