Robert Lehmann (functionary)

Robert Lehmann (born November 23, 1910 in Hanover ; † June 24, 1993 in Berlin ) was from 1957 to 1964 chairman of the pioneering organization "Ernst Thälmann" in the GDR .

Life

Robert Lehmann was the son of a toolmaker and learned to be a painter from 1925 to 1928 after completing elementary school . During his apprenticeship he joined the trade union and the SAJ in 1926 . In 1929 Lehmann moved to the KJVD and became a member of the Hanover-Braunschweig district management. In 1932 he joined the KPD and was delegated by it to the International Lenin School in Moscow . In February 1934 Lehmann returned to Germany and was involved in the illegal youth work of the KPD in Leipzigused. From December 1934 he was a member of the Central Committee of the KJVD. In this function he took part in the VII World Congress of the Communist International in 1935 and in October of the same year in the Brussels Conference of the KPD in Moscow. In the same year he emigrated first to Prague , later to Paris , where he worked as an instructor for the Central Committee of the KPD. From February 1939 until the end of the war, Robert Lehmann stayed illegally in Amsterdam .

In September 1945 he returned to Hanover. In 1947 Lehmann became a member of the KPD in the Lower Saxony state parliament and was temporarily the third chairman of the Lower Saxony KPD. He was the license holder and editor of the "Lower Saxony Volksstimme" and the magazine "Neuer Weg".

Lehmann received a reprimand in 1950 as part of the party purges and checks on emigrants from the West and in 1951 had to move to the GDR. He was accepted into the SED and held various functions in Thuringia until 1957 , including as head of the culture department at the Gera District Council . From December 1957 to September 1964 he held the office of chairman of the pioneering organization "Ernst Thälmann". He was then Deputy Minister for Culture until 1967. In addition, he was a member of the Central Committee of the SED and a member of the People's Chamber from 1958 to 1967 . From 1967 to 1972 Lehmann was director of the GDR Cultural Fund. He then became chairman of the Central Committee of People's Solidarity and held this office until June 1982. Then Robert Lehmann retired.

His grave is in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in the burial complex for the victims and persecuted of the Nazi regime .

Awards

• 1958 medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945
• 1961 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• 1965 Order Banner of Labor
• 1975 Patriotic Order of Merit
• 1980 Karl Marx Order
• 1985 Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit

literature

• 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 .
• Andreas Herbst, Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Lehmann, Robert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Roswitha Foerster: Lehmann, Robert , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 350