Rudolf Wehner

Rudolf Wehner (born March 4, 1908 in Dresden ; † 1980 ) was a German tool fitter , youth functionary (SAJ), resistance fighter against National Socialism and party functionary ( SPD / KPD / SED ).

Life

After elementary school, Wehner attended a vocational secondary school and learned to be a tool fitter. In 1926 he joined the Socialist Workers 'Youth (SAJ) and the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV). In 1928 he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1929 he found work at Carl Zeiss AG in Jena . In the vicinity of Heinrich Hoffmann , he became involved with the Young Socialists . In 1932 he became a board member of the SAJ.

After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, he held the Jena socialist youth together, which in 1941 became part of the Neubauer-Poser group . The majority of the members converted from the SPD to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After Poser's death, Wehner was the focus of the group.

After the end of the Nazi regime, Wehner re-founded the KPD local group in Jena and became its political secretary. In 1946 he became equal SED district chairman. Wehner was one of the communists who opposed command structures in the SED leadership, even when he was a member of the SED Central Committee in Berlin . Most recently he worked at the GDR embassy in Moscow .

publication

• On the development of democratic activity in the implementation of scientific and technical progress in the combine operation , 1986

literature

• Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 . Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 571.