Walter Mickin

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Walter Mickin (second from left) 1955

Walter Mickin (* 31 August 1910 in Berlin , † 16th July 2001 ) was a German architect , communist resistance fighters against Nazism , political prisoner in Nazi prisons , top district administrator in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ), SED functionary , Works director, union official and UN activist .

Life

After attending elementary school, Mickin completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and qualified as a structural engineer . Like his brother Hans Mickin , he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1929 and campaigned against the rise of National Socialism . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he continued to work illegally with anti- fascism . In 1935 he was taken into “ protective custody ”. In 1936 a court sentenced him to prison for “preparation for high treason ”, which he spent in the Luckau and Brandenburg-Görden penitentiaries .

After his liberation from prison on April 27, 1945 by the Red Army , the central KPD leadership commissioned Kurt Seibt to organize the anti-fascist movement in the Brandenburg province . From August 1945 to January 1947 he served as the deputy chief district administrator in the new district authority in Brandenburg (Havel), first as a representative of the KPD and from 1946 with the mandate of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He made his experiences in resistance and persecution available to the memorial work of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN). From 1947 to 1952 he was chairman of the VVN state board in Brandenburg, then VVN chairman in the Potsdam district .

He also held a number of functions in his party: from February 1947 he was deputy head, and from autumn 1948 head of the local politics department at the SED state executive committee in Brandenburg. From July 1949 to the summer of 1950 Mickin was the deputy head of the mass agitation department at the Brandenburg SED regional executive committee. During this time he had to take a reprimand for allegedly incriminating a comrade in 1935 against the Gestapo . In December 1951 he became director of culture and later director of VEB Projektierung. In the following years he took on a position on the central board of the industrial union building / wood . From 1972 Mickin was second secretary and from 1980 to 1985 political employee of the Association of Architects of the GDR . He had been retired since 1980.

Walter Mickin was married to his wife Margret.

Awards

literature

  • Elke Reuter, Detlef Hansel: The short life of the VVN from 1947 to 1953: The history of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Soviet Zone and GDR. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-97-4 , p. 577.
  • Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52 . Lit, Münster 2002, p. 948.
  • Matthias Helle: Post-war years in the provinces. The Brandenburg district of Zauch-Belzig 1945 to 1952. Volume 1, Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-111-2 , p. 66 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Tobias Zervosen: Architects in the GDR: Reality and self- image of a profession . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3390-0 , p. 89 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scientific journal. Volumes 9-10, University of Education Potsdam, 1966, p. 418.
  2. ^ Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52 . Lit, Münster 2002, p. 960. (books.google.de)
  3. ↑ Berlin athletes honored Werner Seelenbinder. Commemorative address by veteran worker Walter Mickin. In: Berliner Zeitung . October 24, 1980, p. 6.
  4. ↑ MICKIN, Walter 1910-2001. (boards.ancestry.de queried July 20, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Mickin, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2001
Place of death Berlin