Richard Eyermann

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Richard Eyermann (born February 6, 1898 in Erfurt , † July 29, 1971 in Magdeburg ) was a German KPD and SED functionary and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Eyermann was born into a working-class family, attended elementary school and trained as a metal grinder. He worked as a railroad and shunting worker. In 1916 he was drafted into military service. In 1918 he was one of the founders of the Erfurt local branch of the USPD . In 1920 he became a member of the KPD. From October 1924 to 1933 he was a member of the state parliament in Thuringia . From 1925 to 1933 he was secretary of the KPD sub-district leadership in Bad Salzungen, Jena and Erfurt, and from 1924 he was also a member of the KPD district leadership in Greater Thuringia. After the KPD district leadership moved from Jena to Erfurt in 1930, he first became agitprop secretary, then in 1931 the organ leader.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he actively participated in the resistance . The Central Committee of the KPD sent him and Walter Duddins to Saxony at the beginning of March 1933, where Eyermann was to rebuild the party as organ leader. Eyermann was arrested in April of the same year and imprisoned in Nohra concentration camp , then in Bad Sulza concentration camp . After his release in December 1934, he was placed under police supervision. Arrested again in January 1937 and sentenced to one year and six months in prison in May 1937. He was imprisoned in Ichtershausen until August 1938 . He then joined the resistance group around Theodor Neubauer and Magnus Poser . In 1944 he was arrested for the third time and taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp .

In 1945/46 Eyermann was a member of the KPD district leadership in Thuringia. On July 6, 1945, negotiations between representatives of the KPD and the SPD began on an action program. In Weimar, in the party house on Goetheplatz, Eyermann took part in a joint meeting with the communists Johannes Brumme , Ernst Busse , Hugo Günther and Walter Wolf as well as the social democrats Heinz Baumeister , Hermann Brill , August Frölich , Paul Hildebrandt and Caesar Thierfelder . The aim of this discussion was to form a joint working committee of the KPD and the SPD for Thuringia . Afterwards, Eyermann appeared together with August Frölich in joint general meetings of the SPD and KPD in order to promote the unification of the two workers' parties. Eyermann was delegate of the unification party congress for Thuringia on April 6th and 7th in Gotha and delegate of the unification party congress of the SPD and KPD on April 21st and 22nd, 1946 in Berlin . Subsequently, he was temporarily secretary of the SED state leadership in Thuringia. From 1946 to 1952 he was again a member of the state parliament in Thuringia , where he was chairman of the SED parliamentary group. From 1952 he was a member of the Magdeburg district assembly . From 1949 to 1952 he was chairman of the state party control commission of the SED in Thuringia. From 1952 to 1971 Eyermann was a member of the SED district leadership in Magdeburg, from 1952 to 1969 also a member of the office and secretariat of the SED district leadership and chairman of the district party control commission there. From 1950 to 1969 he was also a candidate for the Central Party Control Commission of the SED.

Since the winter semester 1970/71 Eyermann had a teaching position at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in the philosophy / history section . He taught the history of the international labor movement until his death .

Fonts

  • On the way to the unity of the labor movement in Thuringia 1945/46 . In: Contributions to the history of the German labor movement , 8 (1966), special issue, pp. 67–70.

Awards and honors

A ring named after Richard Eyermann in Erfurt was renamed Julius-Leber-Ring in 1992. The former POS "Richard Eyermann" in Erfurt has housed the elementary school on the Roten Berg since 1991.

literature

  • Andreas Herbst , Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked . Volume 3: Lexicon of Functionaries . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 168.
  • Monika Zorn (ed.): Hitler's twice killed victims. West German final solution of anti-fascism in the area of ​​the GDR . Ahriman, Freiburg i. Br. 1994, ISBN 3-89484-401-9 , p. 227.
  • Eyermann, Richard . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst: German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 .
  2. ↑ Erfurt street directory ( Memento from February 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 2.43 MB). City administration Erfurt 2012, p. 86
personal data
SURNAME Eyermann, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German KPD and SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1971
Place of death Magdeburg