Hermann Matern was a German communist politician and high ranking functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the German Democratic Republic.
11 Facts About Hermann Matern
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Hermann Matern joined the Socialist Youth Workers and later the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1911.
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Hermann Matern resigned from the SPD when the party accepted war loans.
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Hermann Matern was a member of the Gau Board and the Reich Tariff Commission of the German Leather Workers' Association.
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Hermann Matern emigrated to Czechoslovakia, then via Switzerland to France.
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Hermann Matern's escape took him via Belgium to the Netherlands, Norway and finally Sweden.
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Hermann Matern became a member of the National Committee for Free Germany.
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Hermann Matern was one of the signatories of the programmatic appeal of the Central Committee of the KPD of 11 June 1945.
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Hermann Matern was a member of the National Defense Council of the GDR.
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Hermann Matern had been a member of the International Federation Resistance of Fighters General Council from 1963.
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Hermann Matern's urn was buried in the memorial of the socialists in the Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde in Berlin-Lichtenberg.