Ulrich Osche
Ulrich Osche (born January 5, 1911 in Berlin , † February 27, 1975 ) was a German politician ( KPD , SED ), resistance fighter against National Socialism and journalist . He was General Director of the German Advertising and Advertising Company (DEWAG).
Life
Osche, the son of a tailor , attended elementary school and high school , which he graduated from high school in 1929 . He learned the profession of chemigrapher . In 1929 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD), in 1930 the KPD and the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO). He was a member of the KPD sub-district leadership Berlin-Schöneberg as well as a functionary of the KJVD and the RGO-Jugend Graphisches Gewerbe.
After 1933 he participated as district secretary of the KJVD Ruhrgebiet in the resistance against National Socialism . In 1934 he emigrated to the Netherlands . From September 1934 he worked illegally as an instructor in Moers , Essen and Duisburg , most recently as political secretary of the illegal KPD in the Ruhr area . Osche took part as a delegate at the VII. World Congress of the Comintern , on the VI. World Congress of the Communist Youth International and in October 1935 at the so-called Brussels Conference of the KPD near Moscow . At that time he lived in the Hotel Lux under the code name Lewald . Then he went back to Germany on behalf of the KPD, where he continued his illegal work as KPD secretary in the Cologne district . In March 1936, Osche was arrested by the Gestapo and in January 1937 sentenced to 15 years in prison by the People's Court . He was imprisoned in Siegburg prison. In July 1943 Osche was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he promoted the illegal party organization. Osche was liberated in Buchenwald in April 1945.
From 1945 until 1949 he was head of department and head of personnel at the German Central Administration for Agriculture and Forestry. Since 1946 Osche was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). 1949/1950 he worked as head of the postal newspaper sales in Berlin, from 1950 to 1952 as sales manager and cultural director of the publishing house and the editorial team of Neues Deutschland and from 1952 to 1954 as publishing director of the Märkische Volksstimme in Potsdam . From 1954 to 1959 Osche was an employee of the Central Committee of the SED and head of the Zentrag publishers . From 1959 to 1974 he was Chief Executive Officer or General Director of DEWAG.
Awards
- Patriotic Order of Merit (1959, 1961 in silver and 1970 in gold)
- Karl Marx Order (1974)
literature
- 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 , p. 619.
- Andreas Herbst : Osche, Ulrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 656.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich Osche in “Memories of the Brussels Party Conference 1935”. In: Neues Deutschland , April 15, 1967, p. 5.
- ^ Obituary in: Neues Deutschland , March 1, 1975, p. 2.
- ↑ Peter Hochmuth, Gerhard Hoffmann (ed.): Buchenwald, I cannot forget you. Pictures of Life (Series: Texts / Rosa Luxemburg Foundation; Vol. 35) (PDF; 1.5 MB). Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-320-02100-9 , p. 239.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Osche, Ulrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD, SED), Director General of DEWAG |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1975 |