Eugene Fried

Eugen Fried (born March 13, 1900 in Trnava , † August 17, 1943 in Brussels ) was a Slovak politician.

Life

Eugen Fried was the son of Jewish merchants from Slovakia . After the First World War he became a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia . In 1929 he took part in the overthrow of the leadership of the Czech Social Democratic Party in favor of leaders devoted to the Soviet Union . He went to the Soviet Union in 1930 and joined the central apparatus of the Communist International .

After several missions in Ukraine , Switzerland and Hungary, he went to France . After his arrival in France he became an important player within the French Communist Party under the code name "Clément" . Fried was killed in Brussels in August 1943. Ex-communists claim he was murdered on behalf of Moscow.

literature

Annie Kriegel , Stéphane Courtois , Eugen Fried, le grand secret du PCF , Seuil, Paris, 1997.
Michel Dreyfus, "Eugen Fried", in Comintern, l'histoire et les hommes: dictionnaire biographique de l'Internationale communiste en France, en Belgique, au Luxembourg, en Suisse et à Moscou: (1919–1943) , José Gotovitch et Mikhaïl Narinski, Paris, 2001, pp. 292-295.
Cahiers Marxistes number 110 (Jan. 1983) “Qui a tué Eugène Fried, dit Clément? » ; José Gotovitch, Claude Coussement. Bruxelles. ( Online )

Individual evidence

^ Herbert Lottman: The Left Bank: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1998, ISBN 0-226-49368-7 , pp. 57 ff., 78, 134 (English, limited preview in Google book search).
^ Georgi Dimitrov: The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949 . Ed .: Ivo Banac (= Annals of Communism Series ). Yale University Press, New Haven 2008, ISBN 978-0-300-13385-1 , pp. 30 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search - note 50).

personal data
SURNAME	Fried, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Slovak politician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 13, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Trnava
DATE OF DEATH	August 17, 1943
Place of death	Brussels

[1] Herbert Lottman: The Left Bank: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1998, ISBN 0-226-49368-7 , pp. 57 ff., 78, 134 (English, limited preview in Google book search).

[2] Georgi Dimitrov: The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949 . Ed .: Ivo Banac (= Annals of Communism Series ). Yale University Press, New Haven 2008, ISBN 978-0-300-13385-1 , pp. 30 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search - note 50).