Otto Wiesner
Otto Wiesner (born August 14, 1910 in Hamborn , † February 1, 2006 in Potsdam ) was a German communist and Nazi victim as well as a writer .
Life
The son of a miner learned the profession of typesetter after attending elementary school . In 1926 he became a member of the KJVD and in 1928 of the Communist Party of Germany . Wiesner was arrested by the Gestapo in September 1934 because of his membership and activities in the KPD . In 1936 he was sentenced to seven years in prison and eight years of loss of honor for high treason . Otto Wiesner was deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and later to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Upper Austria . It was not released until 1945 when the US Army marched in .
After the end of the Second World War , he became involved in rebuilding a new political order in what was then the Soviet occupation zone . He went to Berlin, reported to the Central Committee of the KPD in Wallstrasse and was sent to Potsdam, where he was one of the founders of anti-fascist and socialist youth committees in the state of Brandenburg . Since its constitution on September 10, 1945, he was also a member of the Central Anti-Fascist Youth Committee, whose head was Erich Honecker . Wiesner was a member of the KPD district leadership and youth secretary of the KPD district leadership Brandenburg and from 1946 to 1950 a member of the first Brandenburg state parliament after the war. In 1946 he became a member of the SED and was state chairman of the FDJ in Brandenburg from 1946 to 1948 . At the same time he was a member of the Central Council of the FDJ until 1949. He then worked as an employee in the Central Committee of the SED. From 1955 to 1960 he was in charge of the Potsdam Agreement memorial .
Since 1960 he worked as a freelance writer and fought against Nazi thinking. He stuck to his communist beliefs.
On November 9, 2005, he was honored with an honorary entry in the Golden Book of Potsdam .
Awards
- 1976 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- 1985 Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
literature
- 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 , pp. 368-369.
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Wiesner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Platzeck congratulates Otto Wiesner on his 95th birthday
- Contemporary witness Otto Wiesner dies ( Memento from February 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany of March 14, 1987
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiesner, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, communist and Nazi victim |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamborn |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 2006 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |