Bernhard Pfaffenzeller

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Bernhard Pfaffenzeller (born October 18, 1883 in Augsburg , † June 1950 in the Solikamsk labor camp in the Northern Urals) was a German politician .

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The social democrat Pfaffenzeller, who migrated north from Augsburg before the First World War , found a adopted home in Hagenow in Mecklenburg . He was a carpenter by trade. During the First World War he was seriously wounded in Flanders. He remained in English captivity until the end of 1919. After returning home, he entered the city parliament and became a paid senator.

In the period from July 1, 1945 to November 13, 1945 he was district administrator in the Hagenow district . In the state election on October 20, 1946, Pfaffenzeller was elected to the 1st state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . From the end of 1946 he took over the chairmanship of the FDGB of the Hagenow district and tried in this function to defend the independence of the unions against the SED .

The convinced sympathizer of the policies of SPD chairman Kurt Schumacher in West Germany then had to accept the first public criticism of the party by the SED on November 14, 1947; Baseless accusations - not least because of Pfaffenzeller's social democratic convictions - followed. Due to his persistent resistance to the compulsory unification of the KPD and SPD to form the SED, his mandate was withdrawn, so that he had to resign from the state parliament on October 3, 1949. But Bernhard Pfaffenzeller remained an opponent of the communists and their totalitarian ideology; he was spied on by the communist security organs and had to endure defamation.

In June 1949 Bernhard Pfaffenzeller was arrested because of his democratic sentiments, an uncomfortable opponent for the communists within the SED in the intended Stalinization of society, and sentenced by a Soviet military tribunal to 15 years in prison. He was then deported to a Russian labor camp, where he died under inhumane conditions in June 1950 in the Solikamsk camp in the Northern Urals.

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  1. ^ Franz Osterroth: Biographical Lexicon of Socialism. Volume 1: Deceased Personalities. Verlag JHWDietz Nachf. GmbH, Hanover 1960, p. 238
personal data
SURNAME Pfaffenzeller, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH June 1950
Place of death Solikamsk