Rudolf Mießner

Rudolf ("Rudi") Mießner (born November 7, 1907 in Rixdorf near Berlin ; † January 16, 1973 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ) and youth functionary ( KJVD / FDJ ).

Life

Mießner, the son of a bookbinder , attended a reform high school and completed a commercial apprenticeship. He then worked as a businessman in Berlin . In 1924 he joined the KJVD and in 1926 became a member of the KPD. In 1928 he was initially honorary secretary of the KJVD district of Silesia , and in the following year he took over this function in East Saxony. On the XI. KJVD Congress in September 1929 he was elected to the Central Committee of the KJVD. Mießner was temporarily secretary to the KPD Reichstag MP Siegfried Rädel . In 1930 he was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment by the Reichsgericht for “preparation for high treason ”, which he served in the Gollnow Fortress in Pomerania . In 1931 and 1932 he worked as a journalist for the KJVD organ The Young Guard , as an instructor in the publishing house of the Youth International and for the communist workers' newspaper for Silesia and Upper Silesia . In 1932 he was also an instructor in the organizational division of the Central Committee in Berlin and Upper Silesia .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Mießner worked under the code name Flodur in 1933/34 as the original structure of the Central Committee of the illegal KJVD in Berlin, Mannheim and Hamburg . In February 1934 he was arrested in Hamburg and the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court to two years and nine months in prison sentenced. After serving his sentence, Mießner was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp until 1939 . After his release he worked as a travel agent in Berlin.

After the end of the war he became a member of the Central Youth Committee of the SBZ , co-founder of the FDJ and member of the Central Council of the FDJ from 1946 to 1952, 1947/1948 also a member of the secretariat of the FDJ Central Council, responsible for culture and education.

He was editor- in- chief at Berliner Rundfunk until 1947 , worked from 1947 to 1949 as editor-in-chief of the FDJ central organ Junge Welt and then from 1949 to 1956 as editor-in-chief of the SED magazine Neuer Weg , organ of the SED Central Committee for questions of party life. From 1958 to 1966 he was editor-in-chief at German television broadcasting .

From 1952 to 1958 he was also a member of the FDGB federal executive committee and from 1956 to 1958 chairman of the secretariat of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship . Mießner was also a member of the central management of the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters .

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1955)

literature

• Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance 1933-1945 . Röderberg, Frankfurt / Main 1969, pp. 33, 36, 74f.
• Karl Heinz Jahnke : Young communists in the resistance fight against Hitler fascism . New Life, Berlin 1977, pp. 48, 107.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , pp. 545-546.
• Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, p. 979.
• Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan et al. (Ed.): The parties and organizations of the GDR. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 2002, p. 1030.
• Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Volume 12 (Second Supplementary Volume, K – Z). Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2005, p. 126.
• 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 , pp. 602-603.
• Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Miessner, Rudolf . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .