Hans Jendretzky

Hans Jendretzky ( born July 20, 1897 in Berlin, † July 2, 1992 ) was a German politician ( USPD, KPD, SED) in the Weimar Republic and the GDR.

Life

The son of a book printer graduated after school a locksmith teaching. In 1919 he joined the USPD, a year later, he joined the Communist Party, whose full-time functionary he was 1926. He led the Red Front Fighters' Union in Berlin and was from 1928 to 1932 the Prussian Landtag on. 1933/34, he was a member of the KPD district headquarters in Berlin. In 1934 he was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison for " conspiracy to commit high treason". The detention, he was serving in Luckau, then he was taken to the concentration camp Sachsenhausen and not released until 1938. Then he could work as a locksmith again. 1943/44, he worked with in the Saefkow -Jacob Bästlein organization, whereupon he was arrested again in August 1944. In October 1944 he was sentenced by the People's Court to three years in prison and was serving the sentence in the penitentiary Brandenburg and Nuremberg. In April 1945, he managed to escape.

After the war, Jendretzky involved in the reconstruction of the German Communist Party and was a signatory to the call to the KPD of 11 June 1945. Magistrate in Berlin he became head of the Department of Labour, which was responsible for the labor. In 1946 he co-founded the fdgb in the Soviet occupation zone and until 1948 also its chairman. From 1948 to 1953 he was the head of the Berlin SED. Jendretzky was also a member of the board of the whole party and since 1950 member of the Political Bureau.

His political rise was held back in 1953 after he was removed after the uprising of the 17th June as supporters of Zaisser - Herrnstadt group of its functions. In August 1953 he was replaced as first secretary of the SED district leadership Berlin by Alfred Neumann. Then he was up to September 1957 served as chairman of the council of the district of Neubrandenburg. After XX. Congress of the CPSU in 1956 was the rehabilitation, in February 1957, he was co-opted along with Alexander Abusch and Franz Dahlem as a member of the Central Committee of the SED. In February 1958 he was appointed as the successor of Franz Peplinski to the Deputy Minister of the Interior and Secretary of State for matters of local councils. 1960/61, he was Secretary of State and Head of the Secretariat of the Ministerial Council, November 1961-May 1963 Minister and Head of the Central Commission of State Control (successor of Ernst Wabra ). From May 1963 to 1965 he was a member of the Bureau and secretary of the Federal Board of fdgb.

Member of the People's Chamber was Hans Jendretzky 1950 to 1954 and again from 1958. 1965 he took over the presidency of the fdgb Group in Parliament. All party offices and mandates he had to give up during the turn and peaceful revolution in the GDR.

Honors

Publications

• Produce more! Distribute Correct! Live better! , Berlin 1947
• Prague, the first but crucial step, Berlin 1947
• The new German trade unions and November 9, 1918, Berlin 1948
• With Paul Lähne, the tasks of the trade unions in the mining industry, Berlin 1948
• New German trade union politics. Shown in speeches and contributions, Berlin 1948
• The reparations, Berlin 1948
• Rush - we build on. For the unity of Berlin, opposite the splitter elections, Berlin 1948
• Structure Plan for Berlin - a peace plan for the whole of Germany, Berlin 1951
• Some tasks of the local organs of state power in the Seven-Year Plan, Berlin 1960
• The trade union struggle for peace, unity and socialism 1945-1948. From speeches and essays, Berlin 1961
• The new tasks of the state and social control, Berlin 1962
• The unit is the rock on which rests the future of the working class. Reminders of important stages of my work in the labor movement, Berlin 1987