Ernst Plaschke

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Ernst Plaschke (born December 10, 1906 in Neudörfel near Aussig , † March 1988 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( DSAP / KPD / SED ) and anti-fascist resistance fighter of Sudeten German origin.

Life

Plaschke, son of a carpenter , learned the trade of bricklayer between 1921 and 1924 . He then worked as a bricklayer's assistant, later as a foreman in Riegersdorf . In 1921 he joined the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic (DSAP). In 1930 he joined the construction workers' union. Since 1933 he took an active part in the fight against the Henlein movement in Czechoslovakia. In 1935 he became a member and was later group leader of the Red Army, an anti-fascist protection organization for German workers in Czechoslovakia.

After the occupation and annexation of the Sudetenland , Plaschke was arrested by the Gestapo in November 1938 and was imprisoned in various remand prisons , most recently in the Dresden police prison. In January 1939 he was taken to the Dachau concentration camp and in November 1939 to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he was imprisoned until he was liberated in 1945. In Buchenwald, Plaschke (inmate number 7009, block 37) was initially assigned to the penal company. Later he had to work as a bricklayer and became Kapo of Construction Command I. As such, Plaschke achieved a relief of the working conditions for the young prisoners through clever arguments with SS-Obersturmführer Erich Gust .

In the summer of 1945, Plaschke first returned to his homeland in Czechoslovakia. In September 1945 he moved to the Soviet occupation zone and became a member of the KPD. He initially lived in Weimar , where he worked in the city administration. Then he was head of department in the Ministry of Economics and Labor of the State of Thuringia . In 1952 he became head of the rural construction department in the Ministry for Construction of the GDR in Berlin . After its dissolution, Plaschke was a research assistant and main consultant in the Ministry of Construction of the GDR. In 1972 he retired.

He died in Berlin at the age of 81 and was buried on April 7, 1988 in the VdN facility of the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde .

family

Plaschke is the father of Herbert Plaschke (1929–2010), who later became the GDR's ambassador to Hungary and Romania .

Awards

literature

  • Wolfgang Röll: Social Democrats in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945 . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-417-X , p. 302.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Bartel, Klaus Trostorff (Red.): Buchenwald - warning and obligation. Documents and reports . 4th, completely revised edition. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1983, p. 312 f.
  2. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of March 29, 1988, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Plaschke, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DSAP / KPD / SED) and anti-fascist resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Neudörfel
DATE OF DEATH March 1988
Place of death Berlin