Theodor Thiele

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Theodor Thiele (born February 7, 1906 in Magdeburg , † December 16, 1974 in Berlin ) was a German socialist politician ( SPD ).

Life

As a toolmaker, Thiele became a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) in 1920 and a member of the SPD in 1928. He moved from Magdeburg to Berlin and became chairman of the SAJ in the Wedding district . Since the social democratic resistance against the emerging National Socialism seemed too weak for him, he joined the Marxist underground group Neu Beginnen . The SPD excluded him from the party with other cadres from New Beginning in 1933. After the SPD was banned, he belonged to the inner circle of new beginners in Berlin (code name "Mielenz"). In 1936 Thiele was arrested and taken to the Columbiadamm-Berlin concentration campdelivered. He spent a year in custody and was eventually sentenced to one and a half years in prison.

After the liberation from National Socialism , Thiele was active again in the SPD. At first he belonged to left-wing socialist circles. So he worked in a group of cadres around Robert Havemann who tried to gain influence in both the SED and the SPD.

Thiele quickly made a career in the West Berlin SPD. With other leading Social Democrats, whom he knew from the time of New Beginnings, he explicitly saw himself as part of the right wing of the party.

Thiele became district chairman in the Wedding district and a member of the party executive of the Berlin SPD . From 1946 to 1962 he was secretary at the Berlin regional association, then from 1963 to 1965 deputy chairman of the SPD. At the top of the SPD he was the shop steward of the head of the SPD's east office, Stefan Neumann . In the 1950s and 1960s he was a member of the party arbitration commission of the SPD. Thiele was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1955 to 1960 and was later a district councilor for social affairs in the Steglitz district . In the 1960s he headed the Office for General Berlin Issues, which was part of the governing mayor's division .

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 262 (331 pages).
  • Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : Resistance in a workers' district (= Wedding), Issue 1 of the series of publications on the resistance in Berlin 1933 to 1945, Berlin 1983, p. 40 f.
  • Berlin history workshop of BV VdN eV: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933-1945. A biographical lexicon , Berlin 2006.
  • Willy Brandt : Berlin Edition, Volume 3: Berlin Remains Free. Politics in and for Berlin 1947-1966 , Bonn 2004.
  • Hans-Jürgen Heß : The effects of the activities of intra-party groups on the government function of a political party using the example of the Berlin SPD in the years from 1963 to 1981. Dissertation. Berlin 1983.
  • Michael Kubina: About Utopia, Resistance and the Cold War. The untimely life of the Berlin councilor communist Alfred Weiland (1906-1978) , Berlin. Lit-Verlag 2001.
  • Berlin voice August 29, 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Brandt: Berlin Edition, Volume 3: Berlin stays free. Politics in and for Berlin 1947-1966, Bonn 2004, p. 685
  2. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Hess: The effects of the activities of intra-party groups on the government function of a political party using the example of the Berlin SPD in the years from 1963 to 1981. Dissertation. Berlin 1983, p. 73
personal data
SURNAME Thiele, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1974
Place of death Berlin