Bruno Peterson
Bruno Peterson (born April 16, 1900 in Karlshorst ; † January 28, 1966 in East Berlin ) was a German communist resistance fighter and publishing director.
Life
The son of a carpenter attended elementary school from 1906 to 1914 and trained as a printer and typesetter in the years that followed. Peterson organized himself in the workers' youth movement and was from 1916 to the end of 1918 a member of the youth education association of the Spartakusbund , which made him a member of the KPD at the turn of the year .
In the 1920s, Peterson worked as a typesetter and proofreader at the publishing house of the Communist Youth International in Berlin-Schöneberg . In 1929 he became the agit prop. Secretary of the RFB federal board; after its ban, he continued this function in 1929/30 in the staff of the Central Committee of the KPD. In 1931/32 Peterson took over the management of the International Workers' Publishing House in Berlin.
In 1933 Peterson took part in the resistance against the Nazi terror and organized, among other things, an "illegal" quarter for Herbert Wehner, a member of the Central Committee of the KPD . From February 1933 he worked in the illegal state leadership of the KPD; he was arrested in November 1933 and was a witness in the Reichstag fire trial at the end of the month . On February 13, 1934, he was sentenced by the People's Court to two years in prison, which he spent from 1934 to 1936 imprisonment in Luckau prison. After his release from prison he emigrated to the CSR and was responsible for the printing of the KPD central organ Die Rote Fahne in Prague . From 1937 to 1939 Peterson was in charge of the publishing house of the Communist International Prometheus in Paris. In 1940, as a Czech citizen, Peterson became a soldier in the Czechoslovak Corps of the French Army and, as a "French" soldier, was a German prisoner of war from 1941 to 1945.
In 1945/46 Peterson was print shop manager in Saarbrücken and at the same time Agit.-Prop.-Secretary of the KPD district management for the Saar area until he was expelled from the French occupation zone, after which he returned to Berlin in July 1946. Here he participated in the development of the JHW Dietz Nachf. GmbH Berlin publishing house ; from 1946 to 1950 he was a senior editor, then editor-in-chief at Dietz Verlag.
From 1950 to 1954 he was head of the Volk und Welt publishing house, and from 1954 to 1963 he was in charge of the Neues Leben publishing house . From 1963 he was managing director of the German booksellers' association in Leipzig .
From 1947 Peterson was a member of the SED district leadership in Köpenick . In 1956 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Bruno Peterson . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists . Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Second, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
- Dora Schaul : Resistance. Berlin 1973
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The “other” capital of the Reich: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1 . P. 315
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peterson, Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher, head of the Volk und Welt publishing house |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlshorst |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1966 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |