Alfred "Fred" Dellheim

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Alfred (Fred) Dellheim (* May 17 1924 born in Mutterstadt ; † 9 October 2003 in Berlin ) was a fighter against the old and new fascism , a socialist politician and economic official in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was from 1963 to 1990 director of the Berlin Machine Tool Factory (BWF) in Berlin-Marzahn . He was Chairman of the 1992 interest group of Victims of Nazi Persecution (IVVdN) and since 2002 Chairman of the Victims of Nazi Persecution Association - Association of anti-fascists and anti-fascists (VVN-BdA).

After the takeover of the Nazis was the son of Jewish parents Alfred Dellheim, victim of racist persecution and had to because of the Nuremberg Laws, he left high school. In January 1939, he was sent by his parents with a the children's transport to Britain. The closest part of the Dellheim family were in the later murdered in the Holocaust. In 1940 he was in England as "enemy alien internment" and until 1942 in Canada held. After his return to Britain he became a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ). From the end of 1943 Dellheim was a soldier in the British armed forces and fought until 1945 in the Second World War, including the Normandy . In 1944 he was in the Communist Party of Germany was added (KPD).

After the war ended, Dellheim worked as an interpreter for the British military government in Germany, but was then treated as "red soldier". After his discharge from military service in 1947 he was first secretary of the district administration of the FDJ in the Lower Rhine in Herne , 1949, the country's line of North Rhine-Westphalia in Dusseldorf . [1] He began in 1950 on a course at the FDJ youth high school at Bogensee part. In October 1951, Dell Home moved on behalf of "the party" in the GDR. He was a member of the SED and for years to fight for the recognition of his Communist Party membership.

1951-1953 Dellheim was clerk, later Director of Labor and 1953-1958 Plant Manager of the VEB Fritz-Heckert-work in Karl-Marx-Stadt . From 1958 to 1961 he was chief director of the parent VVB machine tools and tools in Karl-Marx-Stadt. After studying at the TU Dresden , which he described as an economics graduate graduating, Dellheim founded in 1961 initially working Director of VEB Engineering "7th October " , then the Berlin Machine Tool Factory (BWF) in Berlin-Marzahn. Both companies were later to VEB Kombinat machine tools' 7. October " . 1990 retired from Dellheim from work.

From 1958 to 1960, Dellheim, a candidate of the SED district leadership Karl-Marx-Stadt and 1964-1967 member of the SED district leadership Berlin.

Dellheim, after turning from 1992 to 2003 Chairman of the interest group of Victims of Nazi Persecution (IVVdN) and from October 2002 Chairman of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime - Federation of anti-fascists and anti-fascists (VVN-BdA). The International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) selected him as one of its vice-president.

Dellheim was buried on 29 October 2003 at the Central Cemetery in Berlin-Friedrich field.