Florian Schenk

Florian Schenk (born December 15, 1894 in Nieder-Thrush ; † September 20, 1957 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPTsch / SED ) and trade unionist of Sudeten German origin. He was chairman of the central board of the land, food and forest union.

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Life

Schenk, son of a family of day laborers and farm workers, attended elementary school and worked as an unskilled metal worker, stoker and machinist. He joined the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV) in 1912 and the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) in 1914 . In March 1926 he became a member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic (DSAP) and then a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KPTsch). From 1927 he was district secretary of the KPTsch in Komotau , from 1929 to 1933 he acted as district secretary of the KPTch in Komotau, from 1933 to 1935 as district secretary in Bodenbach. From 1929 to 1938 Schenk was a member of the Chomutov City Council. From 1935 to 1938 he was a member of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia. As part of the worsening Sudeten crisis , he went to Prague in September 1938 .

In January 1939 he emigrated to Great Britain, where he worked as a boiler heater and machinist. Schnek was a member of the KPTSch group in exile around Gustav Beuer and worked for the magazine Einheit .

At the beginning of September 1946 he returned to Czechoslovakia, but at the end of September 1946 he moved to the Soviet occupation zone . There he became a member of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). Until January 1950 he worked as a department head for agriculture in the SED state executive committee in Saxony and from 1950 to 1953 as chairman of the central executive committee of the land, food and forest union. He was a member of the federal executive committee of the FDGB and from 1956 until his death head of the office for agriculture of the FDGB federal executive committee.

Schenk was also a member of the German Peace Council and the World Peace Council .

His urn was buried in the memorial of the socialists in the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1955)
• Fritz Heckert Medal
• Medal of Merit of the GDR

literature

• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 769 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Andreas Herbst : Schenk, Florian . In: Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990). Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .

Web links

• www.sozialistenfriedhof.de Entry about Florian Schenk
• Friedparks (accessed June 17, 2017).