Bruno Koehler

Bruno Köhler (born July 16, 1900 in Neustadt an der Tafelfichte, Austria-Hungary , today Nové Město pod Smrkem ion Czech Republic ; † March 21, 1989 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak politician of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ).

Life

Köhler had been associated with the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) since his youth , but later joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, which emerged from its left wing and founded on May 14, 1921, as a member. He was temporarily chairman of the youth organization of the KSČ and at the end of the 1920s a graduate of the International Lenin School in Moscow (so-called "Comintern Party School"). After his return he became a full-time functionary of the KSČ leadership around Klement Gottwald and, due to his connections to leading figures of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), was often involved in the interpretation of the party line, which could lead to disputes from the party. He joined the radical, Moscow and Comintern-oriented group around Klement Gottwald, which later went down in history under the nickname " Buben von Karlín " ("karlínští kluci"). At the 5th party congress of the CPC in February 1929, these young functionaries took over power in the CPC. He was elected to the House of Representatives (Poslanecká sněmovna) of Czechoslovakia in the election of May 19, 1935 and was a member of this until October 30, 1938, after the border shifted in the course of the Sudeten crisis . He then worked as an editor in Radčice, before going into exile in France during the Second World War and later in the Soviet Union .

After his return from the Soviet Union, Köhler became head of the office of the Secretariat of the Central Committee (ZK) in 1945 and also a member of the KSČ Central Committee in 1947. He was a member of the Organizational Secretariat of the Central Committee for the first time between January and September 7, 1951 and again from January 31, 1953 to June 11, 1954. At the Xth Party Congress (June 11-15, 1954) and at the XI. At the party congress (June 18-21, 1958) he was not only confirmed as a member of the Central Committee, but also a member of the Secretariat and Secretary of the Central Committee. On June 12, 1960 he also became a member of the National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (Národní shromáždění republiky socialistické Československé) and belonged to it until June 13, 1964.

In June 1961 he was also a candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee, but lost this post a year later at the XII. Party Congress (December 4-8, 1962). On this he was confirmed as a member of the Central Committee, at the same time again as a member of the Secretariat and Secretary of the Central Committee. In April 1963 he and Václav Slavík prematurely lost their functions as members of the secretariat and secretary of the Central Committee and became Čestmír Císař and František Penc . The reason for the dismissal was the investigation of a commission headed by Drahomír Kolder into the show trials of the 1950s and other illegal judicial and political practices of a group of conservative communist functionaries. On the XIII. At the KSČ party congress (May 31 - June 4, 1966) he was finally no longer elected a member of the Central Committee.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Václav Drchal: Malý vítězný únor. Na pátém sjezdu komunistů Gottwald stranu "zbolševizoval" , Euro.cz portal, published under the patronage of Mladá fronta , March 10, 2019, online at: euro.cz / ...

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