Emil Hršel

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Postcard from prisoner Emil Hršel from Buchenwald concentration camp from 1942

Emil Hršel (born January 30, 1901 in Neu Königgrätz as Emil Girschel ; † May 31, 1972 ) was a Czech communist , resistance fighter against National Socialism , prisoner in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps and ambassador of Czechoslovakia (Czechoslovak Republic and Czechoslovak Socialist Republic) in the Mongolian People's Republic and Denmark .

Life

Hršel joined the Communist Party of the Czechoslovak Republic in the youth . From 1924 to 1929 he was the chief secretary of the Komunistický svaz mládeže Československa - Komsomol. In 1931 he was one of the co-founders of Svaz přátel Sovětského svazu and was its first secretary until 1934. From 1936 until its dissolution in 1938, Hršel was the chief secretary of the Federace proletářské tělovýchovy (FPT).

After the " smashing of the rest of the Czech Republic " he was taken from Waldenburg to the Buchenwald concentration camp on September 20, 1939 on a prisoner transport (which also included Jindřich Veselý [1906–1964], a Communist Party secretary and later head of the Czechoslovak State Security). where he initially worked in the library command and was later assigned to the pathology work command. Here he carried out anti-fascist resistance work by establishing communications links to the Dora concentration camp when deceased prisoners were sent to the Buchenwald crematorium for cremation . These messages from the Dora camp were hidden in the wound dressings of the deceased and were then deciphered by Hršel using a key from the book “Outline of All Practical Medicine”. Hršel was a member of the International Camp Committee (ILK) and in this capacity one of the main organizers of the uprising.

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, Hršel returned to the ČSR and joined the Foreign Service in 1948 . With the opening of the Czechoslovak embassy in North Korea , Hršel was appointed ambassador of the CSR in Korea on September 27, 1950. Hršel was u. a. from June 1951 to April 1953 head of the diplomatic mission and envoy in the GDR , from July 1956 to December 1958 ambassador of Czechoslovakia (ČSR or ČSSR) to the Mongolian People's Republic (MVR) and from September 1960 first envoy and from November 1963 to August 1964 ambassador to Denmark.

Publications

  • Mongolská lidová republika , 1960

literature

  • Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports , Berlin 1983, p. 755.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Torsten Seela: Books and Libraries in National Socialist Concentration Camps: the printed word in the anti-fascist resistance of the prisoners . Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, p. 188.
  2. ^ Emil Carlebach / Willy Schmidt / Ulrich Schneider (eds.): Buchenwald a concentration camp. Reports - Pictures - Documents , Bonn 2000, p. 76, ISBN 3-89144-271-8 .
  3. ↑ http://www.policie.cz/soubor/securitas-imperii-9-pdf.aspx
  4. ^ Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin - History of the diplomatic mission
  5. ^ Embassy of the Czech Republic in Ulaanbaatar - History of the diplomatic mission
  6. ^ Embassy of the Czech Republic in Copenhagen - History of the diplomatic mission
personal data
SURNAME Hršel, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Girschel, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH New Königgrätz
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1972