Anton Joos
Anton Joos (born March 8, 1900 in Gutach ; † March 30, 1999 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German KPD and SED functionary.
Life
The son of a locksmith and a farm worker joined the KPD after attending elementary school in Waldshut in 1919 .
From 1919 he was a miner in Bottrop and in 1920 he was a member of the Red Ruhr Army , which is why he was arrested and interned in Cologne . During these years he was also a works council in Titisee- Feldberg and in the following years held numerous trade union and party political functions, such as the office of works council chairman from 1931 to 1932, from 1930 to 1933 political director of the KPD sub-district of Oberhausen and from 1932 to 1933 member of the City council in Oberhausen.
In 1933 he emigrated to the Netherlands , where he was the treasurer and course leader of the KPD in Amsterdam as well as an instructor for the emigrants and had also taken on other functions. From July 1937 Joos was an employee of the KPD defense apparatus in Paris and from 1937 to 1939 Paul Bertz's secretary .
After his arrest, Joos was imprisoned in various camps, but was able to escape in April 1941 and found himself in the French resistance from 1942 , where he had connections with the KPD leadership in Toulouse until March 1943 . He was also active in the Free Germany Committee for the West .
In June 1945 Joos returned to Düsseldorf , where he became head of the personnel policy department in the KPD state leadership in North Rhine-Westphalia and in 1946 a member of the KPD district leadership in the Ruhr area-Westphalia. In 1947 he became a consultant in the personnel policy department of the SED and in 1950 head of the general affairs sector of the departmental cadre of the SED Central Committee .
From 1949 Joos was a member of the Central Party Control Commission of the SED, where he dealt, among other things, with the cause of Noel H. Field and in 1950 was significantly involved in the preparation of the first big party purge. Joos was regarded as the gray eminence of the management department of the Central Committee of the SED, where he was primarily responsible for security-related matters. From 1962 to 1966 he was deputy head of the GDR commercial agency in Stockholm .
Joos was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver on May 6, 1955 and in 1979 in gold.
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Joos, Anton . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web link
- Anton Joos in the DRAFD Wiki
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Joos in the DRAFD Wiki
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Joos, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German KPD functionary and SED functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Expert |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1999 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt (Oder) |