Richard Mildenstrey

Richard Mildenstrey (born July 7, 1884 in Buckow in der Prignitz , † April 25, 1956 in Plauen ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ). He was a member of the Saxon state parliament and helped build the city administration in Plauen in 1945.

Life

Mildenstrey, son of a farmer, learned the trade of locksmith . From 1904 to 1906 he did his military service. In 1907 he joined the SPD . During the First World War, Mildenstrey was a locksmith in an armaments factory in Berlin-Spandau . In 1917 he joined the USPD and joined the Spartacus group. 1919 became a member of the KPD. He worked as a locksmith at a company in Plauen until 1927 and had been a works council there since 1922. 1927 became full-time head of the KPD sub-district Plauen. From 1923 to 1933 he was a city councilor in Plauen, where he was chairman of the communist parliamentary group, and from 1928 to 1930 he was also a member of the Saxon state parliament. Mildenstrey belonged to the Saxon community chamber until 1933.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Mildenstrey was arrested at the beginning of March 1933 and initially held in the Zwickau-Osterstein concentration camp. He then stayed in so-called “ protective custody ” in Sachsenburg and Hohnstein concentration camps until mid-September 1934 . As part of the “ Aktion Gewitter ” he was arrested again on August 8, 1944 and was held in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until the beginning of December .

In May 1945 he was one of the founders of the anti-fascist action committee in Plauen. In the same month, Mildenstrey - while still under American occupation - became an employee of the food department of the city of Plauen. On July 15, 1945 he became district administrator of the Plauen district - now under Soviet occupation . He was a member of the district leadership of the KPD Plauen and in 1946 he became a member of the SED. In 1947 he became operations manager at Rubble Removal in Plauen, then he held managerial positions at VEB Wema Plauen. In 1949 Mildenstrey retired.

Honors

• The FDGB rest home "Richard Mildenstrey" in Jößnitz was named after him since 1971 .
• Until 1991 a street in Plauen was named after him.

literature

• Johannes Richter: Life and struggle of the Plauen anti-fascist Rudolf Hallmeyer: born on February 3, 1908 in Plauen, murdered on September 7, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee . Vogtland District Museum, Plauen 1974, p. 31.
• Andreas Krone: Plauen 1945 to 1949 - from the Third Reich to socialism. Denazification and personnel-structural restructuring in municipal administration, economy and education . Chemnitz University of Technology 2001 (PhD), passim.
• Mildenstrey, Richard . 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 .

Web links

• Entry: Mildenstrey, Richard on the page "Historical Protocols of the Saxon State Parliament".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Archives, DY 34/24641.