Otto Sepke
Otto Sepke (born August 22, 1910 in Stettin ; † March 13, 1997 in Berlin ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and SED functionary.
Life
Otto Sepke attended elementary school in Stettin and was an apprentice in a Stettin printing company from 1925 to 1929. In 1927 he joined the KPD . From 1928 until the ban in 1933 he was a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) in Pomerania . In 1933 he was taken into “ protective custody ” and taken to the Sonnenburg concentration camp. After his release, he participated in the illegal political work of the banned KJVD. Among other things, he was one of Hermann Matern's helpers in his escape from prison in Stettin- Altdamm . In 1934/35 he was employed as an earthworker building the motorway. In September 1935 he was arrested again and was one of the inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp from 1939 to 1945 , where he participated in the camp resistance together with Otto Halle .
After the end of the war he became politically active in Greifswald and was first secretary of the SED district leadership until 1948 . From 1946 to 1948 he was a city councilor in Greifswald and chairman of the district party control commission. In 1949 and 1950 he was first chairman of the state party control commission in Mecklenburg . In October 1950 he became a member of the People's Chamber .
From 1950 to 1952 he was a full-time employee of the Central Party Control Commission (ZPKK) in Schwerin . From 1952 worked in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the SED in Berlin. In 1954 and 1955 he attended the party college of the CPSU in Moscow . In 1954 he became a member of the ZPKK of the SED, of which he was a member until retirement in 1973. After reunification he became a member of the PDS.
Awards
- 1969 Patriotic Order of Merit (VVO)
- 1973 bar of honor to the VVO
- 1976 Karl Marx Order
- 1985 Gold Star of Friendship between Nations
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Sepke, Otto . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Walter Bartel : Buchenwald: Warning and obligation - documents and reports. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften: 1983, 4th, completely revised edition; P. 190ff with a report by Otto Sepke
- Lutz Niethammer (Ed.): The cleaned anti-fascism. Berlin 1994
Web links
- Works by Otto Sepke in the state bibliography MV
- Otto Sepke in a group photo in Buchenwald concentration camp on April 30, 1945
Berlin : Max Sens (1949–1950) | Hans Keuert (1951–1952) • Brandenburg : Heinrich Mosler (1948–1952) • Mecklenburg : Otto Sepke (1949–1950) • Saxony : Fritz Große (1948–1949) | Arthur Ullrich (1949–1952) • Saxony-Anhalt : Erich Besser (1949–1950) | Max Benkwitz (1950–1952) • Thuringia : Martha Gäbler (1948–1949) | Richard Eyermann (1949–1952)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sepke, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter against National Socialism, SED functionary, MdV |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1997 |
| Place of death | Berlin |