Bernhard Steinberger
Bernhard Steinberger (born September 17, 1917 in Munich , † December 16, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German economist, anti-fascist and dissident in the GDR .
Life
Steinberger received an engineering education after attending primary school . In 1936 he emigrated to Milan because of his political activities and from there in 1938 to Switzerland . There he was interned in the labor camp for emigrants. In Switzerland he became a member of the KPD , the admission was made in May 1945 retrospectively for 1940.
After the war ended , he returned to Germany in 1945 . He worked in the Bavarian State Association of the KPD. In May 1947 he moved to Leipzig , where he began studying economics at the university . He joined the SED in 1947 .
On June 9, 1949, he was arrested by the occupation authorities, sentenced in 1950 to 15 years in a prison camp and deported to the Vorkuta labor camp . The Hungarian-born wife Ibolya Steinberger was also arrested and eight years ' imprisonment convicted. After his early release as part of an amnesty , he returned to the GDR on October 10, 1955 . The wife returned to the GDR a year later; she was acquitted in 1957 by the Hungarian public prosecutor's office.
Steinberger became an aspirant at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1956 . He was rehabilitated and resumed as a SED member.
On November 29, 1956, he was arrested again after Wolfgang Harich was arrested. This was followed by defamation in the GDR press. He was accused of "offenses against peace" .
On March 9, 1957, he was sentenced to four years in prison by the GDR Supreme Court . After his release on November 27, 1960, he worked for six months in an industrial company. After that, he was at the University of Economics Berlin worked and received his doctorate in 1967 , Dr. rer. oec. Until his retirement in 1977 he worked as a lecturer .
In 1989 Steinberger became an advisor to the citizens' movement “ Neues Forum ”.
On March 30, 1990, the 1957 judgment was overturned.
literature
- Wilfriede Otto : Thorny way of an anti-fascist. In Berliner Zeitung of April 6, 1990.
- Wilfriede Otto: Steinberger, Bernhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Jürgen Jahn: Robbed years. The life path of Bernhard Steinberger , in "Utopie Kreativ" (rosalux.de; PDF file; 77 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steinberger, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist, anti-fascist and dissident |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1990 |
| Place of death | Berlin |