Emmerich Stoffel

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Emmerich Stoffel (* 1913 in Csák ( German  Tschakowa ), Temes County , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † March 17, 2008 ) was General Secretary of the German Antifascist Committee for Romania , member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party (RKP) and Romanian Ambassador in Switzerland .

Life

Emmerich Stoffel came from the ethnic group of the Banat Swabians and was a member of the RKP from 1930. He was arrested in 1935, 1936 and 1939. While incarcerated in Doftana Prison, he shared a cell with Nicolae Ceaușescu . After the royal coup in Romania in 1944 , he worked as a reporter for Lupta CFR magazine . In 1944, Stoffel was entrusted with the establishment of the "Kronstadt Regional Party Committee" and later became secretary of the RKP committee in Reșița . From 1949 to 1951 he was general secretary of the German Antifascist Committee for Romania. In 1950 Stoffel was appointed Ministerialrat in the "State Secretariat for Nationalities".

From June 1951 to 1955, Stoffel was Romania's ambassador to Switzerland. During his tenure on February 14, 1955, the Romanian embassy in Bern was occupied by five Romanians in exile from the Federal Republic of Germany under the leadership of Oliviu Beldeanu . The aim of the group was the release of political prisoners in Romania. A member of the embassy was killed in the exchange of fire; Stoffel and his wife were able to escape from the window of the embassy gardener's house and were unharmed. The perpetrators were convicted in Switzerland.

In 1965 he became director in the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1971 Stoffel was appointed editor-in-chief of the magazine Neue Literatur , which he headed until his retirement in 1984. From 1965 to 1974 he was a member of the Central Committee of the RKP and from 1974 to 1979 a member of the Central Revision Commission.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Saurer: How the Romanian Securitate hunted the Bernese embassy occupiers. In: Berner Zeitung of July 23, 2011.
  2. ^ Ingmar Brantsch : The survival of Romanian German literature after the upheaval. Geest, Vechta-Langförden 2007, ISBN 978-3-86685-044-6 , 249 pp., 170.
  3. ↑ Germany Archive . Volume 12 (1979), Issues 5-8, p. 519 ( online ).
  4. ↑ a b c d Horst Fassel (Hrsg.): The German State Theater Timisoara after 50 years against the background of German theater development in Europe and in the Banat since the 18th century: Contributions from the International Scientific Conference in Timisoara from 5. – 7. May 2003. Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies , Tübingen 2005, 191 pp., 143.
  5. ^ Announcements by departments and other federal administrative agencies: Changes in the diplomatic corps from June 18 to 30, 1951 . In: Federal Gazette . 1951, Vol. 2, H. 27, p. 463 f.
  6. ↑ The Federal Minister of the Interior : Abuse of the right of hospitality by individual groups of foreigners in the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn July 27, 1967.
  7. ↑ Elke Sabiel: "Poets, translators, poets!" Sibiu conference on the difficulties of translation. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Romania from June 14, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Stoffel, Emmerich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Ciacova , Temes County , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 2008