German Mater ( German: Hermann Matern ; June 17, 1893 , Burg - January 24, 1971 , Berlin ) - German politician, member of the KKE and SED .
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| Successor | Ernst Hoffmann | |||||||
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| Successor | Erich Mückenberger | |||||||
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Biography
The son of a worker, a social democrat. After graduating from a public school, in 1907-1911 he studied at the tanner, then went on an internship to a master. In 1907 he joined the union of socialist working youth, in 1910 - into the union of German agricultural workers, in 1911 - into the Social Democratic Party of Germany . In 1914, in protest against the approval of military loans, he left the SPD. In World War I he served as a soldier and fought in France .
In 1918 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany and participated in the November Revolution , became a member of the Council of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies. He was appointed commander of the guard regiment in Magdeburg . In 1919-1926 he worked as a tanner, joined the KKE and headed the party organization in Burg. In 1929 he studied at the International Leninist School in Moscow and until 1931 he worked as political leader of the KKE on Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg, and later until 1933 - political leader of the East Prussia district. in 1932-1933 he was a deputy of the Prussian Landtag.
In February 1933, he took part in a meeting convened by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the Sports Palace in Ziegenhals near Berlin. Since April 1933, he led the underground organization of the KKE in the district of Pomerania.
In July 1933 he was arrested. In September 1934, he fled from the Stettinsky prison, emigrated to Czechoslovakia , then moved through Switzerland to France. In France, he worked on the creation of a popular anti-fascist front. From France through Belgium fled to the Netherlands , then to Norway and later to Sweden . In the spring of 1941 he moved to the USSR. He became a member of the Free Germany National Committee. He worked as a teacher at the Anti-Fascist School in Krasnogorsk .
May 1, 1945 he returned with the group of Ackerman to Germany. He was one of the signatories of the program appeal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of June 11, 1945. Until 1946, he served as first secretary of the KKE district council in Saxony. After the formation of the SED in 1946-1948, together with Karl Litke, he chaired the SED land association in Greater Berlin . In 1946-1950 he was a member of the central secretariat of the party’s board, from October 1948 he headed the Central Party Control Commission, and since 1950 he was a member of the Political Bureau of the SED Central Committee, where he was responsible for relations with illegal communist parties and their financing. He was a member of the National Defense Council of the GDR . Since 1963, he was a member of the General Council of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters .
Herman Matern was twice married. He was buried in the Central Cemetery of Friedrichsfeld .
Depicted on the 1973 GDR postage stamp.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118578812 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 filmportal.de - 2005.
Literature
- Nachruf in Neues Deutschland. Berlin, 25. Januar 1971.
- Axel Thiem: Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon. Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 .