August Bach

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August Bach at the party conference of the East German CDU in Erfurt in 1964
Grave of August Bach in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin

August Bach (born August 30, 1897 in Rheydt , † March 23, 1966 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and CDU politician in the GDR .

Life

Bach, the son of a provincial building officer, attended grammar school . From 1916 to 1918 he did military service and was taken prisoner by the French . From 1918 to 1922 he studied German and history at the Universities of Bern , Frankfurt am Main and Berlin . In 1922 he found a job at the Central Office for Research into the Causes of War in Berlin. Bach was also the publisher's director and from 1922 to 1944 co-editor of the Berlin monthly books and a supporter of the DDP . From 1937 to 1943 he was the owner of Quader Verlag in Berlin, which was bombed out in 1944. Bach then moved to Weimar .

After the end of the Second World War , in 1945 he co-founded the CDU in Thuringia , as well as a member of the state executive committee and its executive committee. From 1946 he was the publishing director, from 1949 to 1958 editor-in-chief of the Thüringer Tageblatt in Weimar. From 1947 he was a member of the provisional state board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) and from 1949 deputy chairman of DSF Thuringia, later also a member of the presidium of DSF. From 1948 to 1966 he was President of the German Schiller Foundation . From May 1950 to 1952 he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament and from July 1950 its second vice-president (successor to Walter Rücker ).

Re-election of Bach as party chairman in 1960

Bach became a member of the 1st People's Council of the Soviet Occupation Zone in March 1948 and when the GDR was founded in October 1949 a member of the provisional People's Chamber or People's Chamber , from 1949 to 1955 chairman of the CDU parliamentary group there. From June 18, 1950 to 1952 he was state chairman of the CDU Thuringia.

From 1950 he was a member of the CDU main board , from 1952 a member of the Political Committee and from 1954 of the presidium of the CDU main board. From 1955 to 1958 August Bach was a member of parliament and president of the GDR Land Chamber . In November 1957, the National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany co-opted him into the Presidium of the National Council.

After Otto Nuschke's death , on March 18, 1958, Bach was entrusted with the management of the business of the party chairman and was confirmed as the new party chairman on October 3, 1958 at the 9th party congress. He then held this office until his death in 1966. From 1958 to 1963 he was deputy president of the People's Chamber and from 1963 to 1966 a member of the Presidium of the People's Chamber. From 1962 he was a member of the Presidium of the Franco-German Society, from 1964 its Vice-President.

Awards

Fonts

  • From speeches and essays 1946–1966. Berlin 1977.

literature

Web links

Commons : August Bach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neue Zeit , July 8, 1950, p. 2.
  2. ^ First chairman: Bach . In: Neue Zeit , June 20, 1950, p. 2.
  3. ^ Bach in the Presidium of the National Council . In: Neue Zeit , December 14, 1957, p. 2.
  4. ^ August Bach chairman of the CDU . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 4, 1958, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Bach, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (CDU), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheydt
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1966
Place of death Berlin