Paul Malachinski
Paul Malachinski (born December 15, 1885 in Danzig ; † July 26, 1971 in Güstrow ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ). He was a member of the People's Day of the Free City of Danzig .
Life
Malachinski, son of a stevedore master, learned the trade of locksmith . Until he was drafted into the military in 1904, he worked as a shipyard worker in Gdansk. In 1907 he joined the German Metalworkers Association and in 1915 the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1915 he was drafted to work in the Danzig rifle factory and in 1917 was one of the co-organizers of the “Danzig Bread Strike”. In 1918 he switched to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) with its left wing in 1920.
Malachinski worked again as a shipyard worker until 1921 and then officially became an employee of the Russian trading company (Dura) in Gdansk. In fact, however, he worked as a courier for the KPD district leadership in Danzig. From 1924 to 1933 he worked full-time in the Gdansk district management. From 1924 to 1931 Malachinski was a member of the city citizenship. In 1925, Malachinski came as a successor to the Gdańsk People's Day, of which he was a member until 1927. From 1933 to 1937 he was an acquisition agent for the "Freiheit" and the "Volksstimme" in Danzig. He was arrested in September 1939 and held in the Stutthof concentration camp until 1941 . He then worked as a self-employed businessman and did illegal resistance work for the KPD. In 1944 he fled to Sopot and stayed in hiding until the Red Army invaded in 1945.
In 1945 Malachinski first built local KPD groups in Sopot, Danzig and others and then became the leader of the first resettlers' procession to Güstrow in Mecklenburg . Until 1947 he was mayor of Bellin in the Güstrow district and from 1947 head of the Güstrow SED. From 1948 to 1951 he was the district secretary of the Association of Persecuted Persons of the Nazi Regime .
Awards
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1966).
- His name can be found on the memorial for the resistance fighters against fascism in the Güstrow cemetery
literature
- Malachinski, Paul . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 574.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry: Rada miejska (City Council) on the Gedanopedia page.
- ↑ Cenotaph at the Güstrow cemetery .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Malachinski, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD / SED) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1971 |
| Place of death | Guestrow |