Robert Neddermeyer

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Robert Neddermeyer (born April 3, 1887 in Altona , † October 18, 1965 in Potsdam ) was a German worker, sailor, resistance fighter against National Socialism and politician (KPD, SED).

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Neddermeyer attended elementary school . Later he worked as a construction worker. In 1904 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a seaman . In 1918 he was actively involved in the Kiel sailors' uprising.

After the establishment of the Weimar Republic , Neddermeyer joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In the autumn of 1921 he took part in a political course at the central party school of the KPD in Berlin and then from 1922 to 1926 he served as party secretary in various local districts. Among other things, he took over the political management of the Bielefeld sub-district in 1923 .

In 1924 Neddermeyer was elected for his party as a member of constituency 17 (North Westphalia) in the Reichstag in Berlin, to which he belonged until 1928. In the same year he took part in the Fifth World Congress of the Comintern in Moscow. In 1925 Neddermeyer finally joined the so-called ultra-left group within the KPD. From 1926 to 1933 he was also employed in the East Prussian land department of the KPD.

After leaving the Reichstag in 1928, Neddermeyer became a member of the state parliament in Prussia. After all , he was to be a member of the Prussian Landtag - re-elected several times - without interruption until 1933. In 1930 Neddermeyer became the private owner of a poultry farm near Liebenwalde . In the same year he became a city councilor in Königsberg , an office that he would retain until 1933. In 1931 he founded the Revolutionary Agricultural Workers' Association East Prussia , of which he also became the first chairman.

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " in 1933, Neddermeyer took part in the illegal resistance of the underground KPD in Germany. Since July 1937, he has been in charge of the editorial team of the Socialist Republic , an underground newspaper that appears in Cologne and which was able to sell 1,000 to 2,000 copies with each new issue. Due to his past as a communist politician and his continued activity in the resistance, Neddermeyer was repeatedly arrested between 1933 and 1945 and taken to prison and concentration camps. Among other things, it was kept in the Sachsenhausen and Esterwegen concentration camps . He was liberated in 1945 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison.

In 1945 Neddermeyer served briefly as mayor of Liebenwalde . From 1945 to 1946 Neddermeyer then held the office of deputy district administrator of the Niederbarnim district . At the same time, he was also active from August 1945 to February 1947 as a senior district administrator based in Bernau. In the same year he also became de facto chairman of the Brandenburg State Soil Commission and state secretary - later also state chairman - of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid (VdgB) in Brandenburg. After he had already succeeded Richard Kramer as secretary of the VdgB from March 1947 to autumn 1948, Neddermeyer finally succeeded Albrecht as chairman of the VdgB in 1949. In addition, he was a member of the Brandenburg state parliament from 1948 to 1952 and chairman of the committee for agriculture and forestry there from 1950 to 1952. In 1952 he moved into the district assembly of Potsdam.

Appreciation

In Oranienburg there was a polytechnic high school and an agricultural engineering school, in Löwenberg there was a polytechnic high school, and in Liebental near Liebenwalde there was an LPG named after Robert Neddermeyer. From October 1982 the missile technology base of the NVA in Brück was named Robert Neddermeyer.

Fonts

  • Farm workers fighting against barons, Nazis and bigwigs! , 1932. (KPD election leaflet)
  • It started in Hamburg. A German Communist Tells From His Life , Berlin 1980. (published posthumously by Karl Grünberg)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Stroech: The Illegal Press. A weapon in the fight against German fascism , 1979, p. 231.
  2. ↑ http://www.rwd-mb3.de/tte/inst/rteb2.htm .
personal data
SURNAME Neddermeyer, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism and politicians (KPD, SED), MdR, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1965
Place of death Potsdam