Erich Reschke

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Erich Reschke (born March 14, 1902 in Dortmund ; † November 21, 1980 ) was a German communist , trade unionist , former political prisoner in the Lichtenburg and Buchenwald concentration camps , after 1945 Thuringian Police President , President of the German Administration of the Interior (DVdI), imprisoned, repatriated and rehabilitated as an alleged war criminal in Vorkuta , boiler smith , major in the German People's Police(DVP) and honorary SED party secretary in the residential area.

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After attending primary school in Hamburg, Reschke completed an apprenticeship as a riveter in shipbuilding . In 1920 he joined the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV). In 1922 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), the Red Aid (RH) and the Red Front Fighters League (RFB). He took part in the Hamburg uprising in 1923 . Because he had distributed leaflets of the competing Red Trade Union Opposition (RGO), he was expelled from the DMV in 1930. He was active against the emerging National Socialism . In 1933 he was arrested and transferred to prison and the Lichtenburg concentration camp. In 1938 he was taken to Buchenwald concentration camp as a prisoner, where he became a Kapo in the construction team and the first camp elder .

After liberation from Nazi rule , he became head of the police in the state of Thuringia , and from July 1946 to July 1948 he was president of the DVdI. In 1948 he was recalled to the Central Commission for State Control, a forerunner of the Workers and Peasants Inspection (ABI). In 1950 he was appointed head of the Bautzen prison . In the same year, Soviet organs arrested him and sentenced him as an alleged war criminal to life imprisonment in the Vorkuta labor camp , where he had to live from 1951 to 1955.

In October 1956 he was released home and was assigned a job as a boilermaker in the VEB Bergmann-Borsig . In 1956 he was rehabilitated by the SED and was subsequently a major in the People's Police in the prison administration. When he retired in 1962, he volunteered as SED party secretary in his residential district. He last lived in Hohen Neuendorf, his urn was buried in the local cemetery.

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  1. ↑ Klaus Froh & Rüdiger Wenzke, (Eds.): The Generals and Admirals of the NVA: A biographical manual, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2007, p. 227.
  2. ↑ Heinz Koch, Udo Wohlfeld: The German beech forest committee. The period from 1945 to 1958. Weimar 2010, ISBN 3-935275-14-5 , p. 189.
  3. ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from November 28, 1980.
  4. ^ New Germany from July 1, 1960.
  5. ^ New Germany of April 28, 1967.
  6. ^ New Germany of February 26, 1972.
  7. ^ New Germany of March 1, 1977.
personal data
SURNAME Reschke, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political concentration camp prisoner, police chief
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1980