Ernst Hansch

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Ernst Emil August Hansch (born February 5, 1914 in Altona ; † November 24, 1970 in Berlin ) was a German KPD and SED functionary, anti-fascist resistance fighter and journalist .

Life

Hansch, son of a shipyard worker and a tobacco worker, graduated after attending the elementary school a book printing apprenticeship and then worked as a printer in Altona. In 1929 he became a member of the trade union and the SAJ , but shortly afterwards he joined the KJVD . In 1932 he attended the Marxist Workers' School in Hamburg . In 1933/34 he belonged to the KJVD sub-district management Hamburg-Altona.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Hansch took part in the resistance . In 1934 he became a member of the KPD and emigrated to the Netherlands in the same year . There he continued the illegal party work in Amsterdam and Rotterdam . From 1935 to 1938 he was the circle leader of the illegal emigrant organization in the Netherlands and in 1939/40 head of the agitation and propaganda department of the KPD national leadership in the Netherlands. After the occupation of the Netherlands by German troops, Hansch was imprisoned in 1940. Imprisoned in Hamburg from 1940 to 1942 , he was sentenced by the People's Court to six years in prison for “preparation for high treason ” and was then imprisoned in the Brandenburg and Gollnow penitentiaries . In 1943/44 Hansch had to do military service as a soldier in the Penal Battalion 999 . In 1944 he defected to the partisans in Greece . He became an officer in the 11th Division of the Greek People's Liberation Army ( ELAS ). Via Bulgaria he then came to the Soviet Union , where he taught in camps for German prisoners of war . First he was head of the Antifa collective in the POW camp 280 in Stalino in 1945/46 , then in 1947/48 he himself was a student at the Antifa school in Noginsk near Moscow .

After his return to Hamburg in January 1948, Hansch became a member of the KPD again. After moving to the SBZ , he became a member of the SED in April 1948 and initially secretary and head of the organization and press department in the central board of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid (VdgB). From January to August 1950 he was head of the agriculture department in the Central Committee of the SED , from September 1950 he was head of the German working group for agriculture and forestry. He was responsible for preparing the publication of the magazine We Farmers in the Federal Republic. In October 1956 he and Wilhelm Girnus , Secretary of the Committee for German Unity, met Herbert Wehner on the Lüneburg Heath . Another meeting between Wehner, Hansch and Girnus took place on November 10, 1956 in West Berlin . As an unofficial “Henkel” employee of the GDR State Security , Hansch continued to have secret contact with Wehner.

From 1949 to 1951 he was editor-in-chief of the VdgB weekly newspaper Der Freie Bauer , from 1951 to 1953 editor-in-chief of the VdgB magazine Die Ähre or Das Land and from 1953 to 1970 editor-in-chief of BZ am Abend . From 1954 to 1958 he was chairman of the Kulturbund in Birkenwerder near Berlin. From 1956 to 1968 he was chairman of the district association of the Association of German Journalists (VDJ) and from 1956 to 1970 a member of the VDJ central board .

Fonts

  • Agriculture and farmer in the Soviet Union . Deutscher Bauernverlag, Berlin 1948.

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personal data
SURNAME Hansch, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hansch, Ernst Emil August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German KPD and SED functionary and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1970
Place of death Berlin