Ernst Lohagen
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Portrait by Roger & Renate Rössing, 1951 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Saxony | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 4 December 1948 – 27 June 1952 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serving with | Erich Mückenberger (1948–1949) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Otto Buchwitz Wilhelm Koenen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Karl Schirdewan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 12 May 1897 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 2 November 1971 (aged 74) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | KPD (1919–1946) SED (after 1946) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | Spartacus League (1916–1918) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Paula Niewöhner
(m. 1926; died 1942) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Allegiance | German Empire Revolutionaries Revolutionaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Branch/service | Imperial German Army Ruhr Red Army Antimilitärischer Apparat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1916–1918 1920 1921 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ernst Lohagen (12 May 1897 - 2 November 1971) was a German communist politician (KPD, SED). He was a member both of the Reichstag before the Nazis took power in 1933 and of the East German equivalent assembly between 1946 and 1952, although under the Leninist power structure applied in East Germany it was his membership of the party Central Committee till 1952 that was of greater significance.
He suffered a fall from grace in February 1952 and never recovered his former political influence.
A record of political activism meant that he spent most of the twelve Nazi years in state detention: Lohagen's wife was murdered in Auschwitz.