Berthold Rose

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Berthold Rose (born December 4, 1904 in Berlin ; † June 6, 1965 ) was a politician ( DBD ) of the GDR and from 1950 to 1963 a member of the People's Chamber .

Life

The son of a postman attended elementary school in Berlin and worked in agriculture from 1920 to 1924. He then attended the agricultural college Luisenhof near Oranienburg. In 1925 he joined the Free German Trade Unions as a worker and became a trade union official. From 1925 to 1940 he worked as a business assistant, worker, clerk and also as a postman.

In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht for military service (heavy flaka division 222 / VIII. Flak division). [8] Under the direction of Hans Schnitzler , a resistance group was established within the Wehrmacht. On August 15, 1943, his unit was subordinated to the 11th Flak Division (Flak Group Auschwitz) (heavy flak division 903 a total of 7 batteries including his unit ZbV 10721) Wilkowitz site in the immediate vicinity of Auschwitz III Monowitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau . At the end of 1944 the resistance group was 82 men strong (10 German flak members and 72 Russian prisoners of war). The resistance group holds key positions in the large battery (battery chief Oberleutnant Oetter, forward observer vB Hans Schnitzler, E-Messer Erich Flitsch, radio test sergeant Schulz and driver vB Berthold Rose) and is ready to fight. There is contact with the Polish resistance.

There was a plan to enable a mass escape of prisoners in the Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp when Russian troops approached. For this purpose, around 1000 grenades were to be fired at the SS barracks and selected watchtowers with 24 cannons of caliber 8.8. In addition, a large breach should be made in the camp fence. The plan was not carried out because the camp prisoners were increasingly evacuated into the interior of the Reich at that time. The death marches could be clearly observed from the position. The Polish side also rejected a liberation operation in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by direct fire, because apparently there was no willingness to help Jewish prisoners.

When the long-awaited Russian offensive began on January 12, 1945, the resistance group became active. The command of the commander "Major Engel" to lay barrages in front of the Russian attack and then destroy the guns was bypassed. On January 26th, Hans Schnitzler, as a forward observer , directed the fire of 24 anti-aircraft guns of caliber 8.8 a total of 4500 grenades with raised fuses at his own troops in the Neu Berun area.

On May 10, 1945, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets . Together with Hans Schnitzler, he attended the Central Anti-Fascist Schools in 2040 and 2041.

After his release he became a member of the Democratic Peasant Party of Germany on February 1, 1949 and head of the organization department at the DBD's zone committee.

In 1950 he became a member of the People's Chamber and led the DBD parliamentary group there. In the People's Chamber he was a member of the standing committee, the economic committee and the committee for foreign relations. Since 1950 he was a member of the National Council of the National Front . In 1951 he became general secretary of the DBD. From 1955 to 1958 he was a member of the central board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship . In 1963 he was the victim of an intrigue in the party executive committee of the DBD and released from all functions and was most recently director of a DEFA company in Berlin-Johannisthal.

Berthold Rose was awarded the Badge of Honor of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship in 1954 , the Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver on May 6, 1955 , the Order of Labor of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1957 and the Ernst Moritz Arndt Medal in 1959 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler : My castles or How I found my fatherland. Edition Nautilus Verlag Lutz Schulenburg, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-89401-249-8 , p. 44
  2. ↑ Dariusz Zalega: Germany against Hitler Zalega: Niemcy przeciw Hitlerowi website
  3. ↑ Dariusz Zalega: Germany against Hitler Zalega: Niemcy przeciw Hitlerowi website
  4. ↑ BStU MfS AP6122 / 63: Schnitzler curriculum vitae Bl. 1-5, Appendix 3, August 28 1950
  5. ↑ BStU MfS AP6122 / 63: Schnitzler on events in the party executive
  6. ^ Theresia Bauer: Block Party and Agrarian Revolution from above: The Democratic Peasant Party of Germany 1948-1963 , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56703-9 , p. 152ff
personal data
SURNAME Rose, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DBD), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1965