Telman biography

B - studied at a people's school. Before he was a transport worker. From his youth, he joined an organized working movement: he joined the Social Democratic Party of the German SDPG, to the Transport Workers Trade Union; He was one of the organizers of the youth trade union movement in Hamburg. Many years of experience in production and trade union activity developed the main personality trait T.

on the eve of the 1st World War-18 T. Liebknecht, R. Luxembourg and others. In T., he was mobilized into the army and sent to the Western Front. He was persecuted for revolutionary activities in the army. The October Revolution in Russia determined the purpose and direction of its further struggle. Since December, T. in the summer, as a delegate to the 3rd Congress of the Comintern, first visited Soviet Russia.

The achievements of the Soviet working class and the Bolshevik party made a huge impression on him. He played a leading role in the Hamburg uprising at the end of T. put forward the task of turning the CCA into a purposeful, unified, disciplined, closely related to the masses of the Marxist-Leninist party. The greatest historical merit of T. since the beginning of T. since May T.

B and the candidacy of T. He was one of the best party agitators, a genuine people's tribune, which enjoyed great respect for the broad masses of workers. He participated in the 5th and 6th Congresses of the Comintern, as well as in all the plenums of the ICKI, who passed the Comintern’s unity and cohesion. The most important, inextricably linked tasks of the proletarian revolutionary, he considered the protection of the first socialist state - the Soviet Union and the preparation of the working class of his country to conquer political power.

At the ICKI Plenum, he stated: “The question of the international labor movement is the question of the attitude to the dictatorship of the proletariat in the Soviet Union. Here opinions diverge, and they must disperse! Attitude to the Soviet Union gives an answer to the question to which camp you belong to German politics: to the Revolution camp or to the counter -revolution camp?

He made a significant contribution to the creative use of Marxism-Leninism and to develop the path of conquering political power by the working class in Germany. His ideas, first of all, a call to a decisive struggle against nationalism, this main ideological weapon of fascism, entered the program statement of the KKG Augustus on the national and social liberation of the German people.

In March, T. The anti -fascist struggle of the CCG clearly reflected in the activities of T. on his initiative, the KKS organized in May the movement of anti -fascist action aimed at achieving the unity of the working class and the unification of all anti -fascist democratic forces against the establishment of a fascist dictatorship. Together with his closest associates V.

Pik and I. Sheror T., the Refusal of the Right leaders of the SDPG from the unity of the actions of the working class led to a significant strengthening of the reaction positions, weakened the forces of the proletariat and contributed to the arrival of fascism to power. In, after the dictatorship was established by the fascist, T. through his wife Rosa Telman and daughter Irma maintained a constant connection with the CCG Central Committee, transmitting important instructions and information in which the unbending stamina of the communist, a fighter against imperialism and fascism, great faith, due to the working class, love for the Soviet Union and the ineffable fidelity of proletarian internationalism, were manifested.

In August T., the establishment of a socialist social system in the GDR, the fraternal union of the first German state of workers and peasants with the Soviet Union and others. Artikel und Reden. DREI ReichstagSreden, B. Watchman for Peace and Freedom, M. Telman, 2 ed.

Memories of E. Telman, per. Pages of life and struggle, 2nd ed. Bilder und Dokumbe aus Seineern Leben, B. Leben und Kampf, B. Honecker GDR.