Carl Bobach

Carl Bobach (born April 13, 1898 in Waldenburg , Saxony; † May 8, 1965 in Dresden ) was a German KPD and SED functionary and journalist .

Life

Bobach, the son of a potter, worked as a salesman after attending elementary and trade school. In 1912 he joined the SAJ , but was expelled during the First World War due to his anti-militarist stance. Bobach joined the Spartakusbund , later the USPD and then the KPD. In the First World War he did military service and was active as an agitator.

From 1924 he was the editorial secretary and later editor of the Chemnitz KPD newspaper Der Kämpfer . In 1929 he was sentenced to one year imprisonment and imprisoned for “publishing articles hostile to the state”. From 1932 to 1933 Bobach was an employee of the KPD weekly magazine Illustrierter Volksecho , from 1933 he was an employee of the communist press service.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Bobach joined the communist resistance . Arrested in November 1933, he was sentenced to three years in prison by the Dresden Higher Regional Court in July 1934 . Bobach remained imprisoned in Waldheim prison and in the Sachsenburg and Buchenwald concentration camps until April 1939 . In 1944 he was drafted into the 999 Penal Battalion and was taken prisoner by the Americans in September 1944 .

After his release from captivity, he joined the SED in 1946 and then worked in various party functions. In 1952 he was appointed deputy head of the information office at the Saxon state government. From January 1953 to 1961 he was editor-in-chief of the Sächsische Zeitung in Dresden (successor to Otto Trillitzsch ). From 1958 to 1960 Bobach was a member of the SED district leadership in Dresden .

Awards and honors

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1956)
• Franz Mehring Badge of Honor (1956)
• Labor Banner (1958)
• Medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945
• A street in Chemnitz-Helbersdorf is named after him, and a polytechnic high school in the Fritz Heckert residential area also bore his name.
• Another Polytechnic High School was named after him in Dresden- Hellerau (84th POS Dresden).

literature

• Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1961, p. 38.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 66.
• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 124.
• Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Carl Bobach . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .