Reinhold Lochmann

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Reinhold Lochmann (born February 5, 1914 in Dresden , † July 26, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German electrician , resistance fighter against National Socialism , prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp and colonel in the German People's Police .

Life

Lochmann, son of the potter and communist Bruno Lochmann, came to Binningen in the Swiss district of Basel from January to April 1924 as the foster son of a communist carpenter after his father was arrested . Back in Dresden he became a Red Young Pioneer and from October 1924 a member of the Jungspartakusbund. He learned the profession of bicycle mechanic and was a member of the Arbeiter-Radio-Bund Deutschland . In 1928 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD), became Policeman in Dresden Neustadt and later in the old town. He was elected to the district management of the KJVD Saxony and was committed against the emerging National Socialism .

After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he was arrested on April 27, 1933, held for two weeks in an SA barracks, for two more weeks in the Dresden police prison, and then sent to the early Hohnstein concentration camp . After his release in December 1933, he continued his illegal resistance work. At that time he worked with Horst Sindermann , Erich Bär and Erich Stephan. He was again arrested on 13 February 1935 to three years and four months on 30 November 1935 by the Higher Regional Court Dresden prison convicted. In Zwickau prison he shared the cell with Erich Bauer for a year and was brought with him to the moor in Aschendorf in June 1937 . He was released on June 30, 1938 and transferred to the Papenburg District Court . On July 28, 1938, he was transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp. He was classified as a recidivist (red triangle with bar) and was given the prisoner number 2455. After a year in the electricians' command, Karl Barthel and Walter Jurich managed to get him to work in the radio workshop. He became a member of the International Military Organization (IMO). At the end of 1942, he set up an audio bridge in the DAW electrical workshop to listen to the international broadcasters BBC London and Radio Moscow .

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, he went to his sister in Waldheim in May 1945 , helped build the local organization of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and became deputy mayor of Waldheim. At the end of 1946 he was commissioned by Johannes Vogelsang , a comrade of his father in the Weimar period, to set up the district party school in Kriebethal . Until the end of 1948 he worked there as a teacher for Marxism-Leninism and party history. In January 1949, Leander Kröber, the head of the Thuringian People's Police, brought him to the state police authority (LPB) in Weimar . He became a member of the German People's Police with the rank of VP commander and the position of head of the personnel department of the LPB. With the formation of the districts in the GDR in 1952, he became political deputy to the head of the district authority of the German People's Police (BDVP) Gera . He was promoted to colonel in the VP and in 1960 came to the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR . Here he was included in the elaboration of the history of the German People's Police. Lochmann was retired in 1974 and lived as a colonel in the VP a. D. in East Berlin . Most recently he worked as a member of the central management of the Committee of Antifascist Resistance Fighters of the GDR and the Buchenwald-Dora and Commandos camp work group .

Lochmann died in 2008 at the age of 94. His urn was buried on August 22, 2008 in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in the cemetery for the victims and persecuted of the Nazi regime .

The journalist Karlen Vesper published an interview with Lochmann in the book “Light in Dark Night” .

Awards

  • 1961 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1974 in silver, 1979 in gold and 1984 honor bar for the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold

literature

  • Manfred Drews: Colonel VP a. D. Reinhold Lochmann . In: Publication of the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR: Life and Struggle in the Service of the People , Volume 3, Berlin 1984, pp. 193–225.
  • Karlen Vesper: Light in a dark night. Twelve conversations with other Germans , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-89144-427-6 .
  • Emil Carlebach / Willy Schmidt / Ulrich Schneider (eds.): Buchenwald a concentration camp. Reports - Pictures - Documents , Bonn 2000, p. 125, ISBN 3-89144-271-8 .
  • Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports, Berlin 1983, p. 756.

Web links

  • Reinhold Lochmann Friedpark: Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde (accessed on January 18, 2018).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany from 4./5. February 1989.
  2. ↑ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from August 16, 2008.
  3. ↑ Lochmann grave site at BillionGraves (accessed on January 16, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Lochmann, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter and police officer (KPD, SED)
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2008
Place of death Berlin