Friedl Baruch

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Siegfried "Friedl" Baruch (born February 17, 1905 in Göttingen ; † November 3, 1995 in Bergen ) was a German politician and journalist ( KPD , CPN ) who spent most of his life in exile in the Netherlands .

Life

Baruch studied economics in Göttingen and Hamburg ; In 1929 he became a member of the KPD. After the seizure of power in 1933, he went into exile in the Netherlands , where he became a member of the Communist Partij Holland (CPH), which was renamed Communist Partij Nederland (CPN) in 1935. There Baruch was active in the International Red Aid and in 1938 in the party newspaper Volksdagblad . In 1943 he became a member of the party leadership underground during the German occupation in World War II , where he was responsible for party and other programs.

After the Second World War, Baruch was together with Fred Schoonenberg from 1949 to 1953 editor-in-chief of De Waarheid , the successor body of the Volksdagblad . The leadership duo was unable to counter the rapid decline in importance that began before he took office; even under Baruch's predecessor Paul de Groot , the newspaper had become Stalinist and had lost much of its reputation. After serving as editor-in-chief , Baruch and Marcus Bakker wrote the book De Grote Oktoberrevolutie en de revolutionaire arbeidersbewegung in Nederland (The Great October Revolution and the Revolutionary Workers' Movement in the Netherlands), which was published by the Soviet state publisher in 1957 with a print run of 100,000 copies.

When the CPN began to focus more on the People's Republic of China than on the Soviet Union during the Sino-Soviet quarrel , Baruch stuck to the latter's ties. For this reason he was not re-elected in the April 1964 board elections. Baruch then sharply attacked Chairman De Groot and was expelled from the party in September 1964. His Waarheids colleague Wim Klinkenberg suffered the same fate, who later wrote Communist Notities for Baruch's paper, among others , which reached a maximum circulation of 2,500 copies. The book Linksaf / naar rechts (Links ab, nach rechts), written by Baruch, was published in 1967 about the conflict in the CPN . He was also the editor of the monthly organ of the Vereniging Nederland-USSR (Association Netherlands-USSR).

Works

  • With Marcus Bakker : De Grote Oktoberrevolutie en de revolutionaire arbeidersbewegung in Nederland , Staatsverlag, Moscow 1957
  • Big power in a small country: a beeld van het monopolie-kapitaal en zijn invloed in Nederland , Pegasus, Amsterdam 1962
  • Left af / naar right. Portret van een politieke partij of de ommezwaai van de CPN in het conflict Moskou-Peking , Kruseman, The Hague 1967
  • With W. Klinkenberg, D. Lataster, H. Lataster: De rode vlag gestreken: een kritiek op het ontwerppartijprogram van de CPN , In de Knipscheer, Haarlem 1982
  • With Will Boezeman-Boekhoff, Leo van Gaasterland: De Sowjet-Unie anders bekijken , Vereniging “Nederland-USSR”, Amsterdam 1986
  • With Wim Hulst, Will Boezeman-Boekhoff: Aan de border voorbij: over de betrekkingen tussen Nederland en de USSR (1917-1987) , De Schalm, Amsterdam 1987

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ parlement.com: AD Schoonenberg (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Verrips, p. 127
  3. ↑ Verrips, p 389
  4. ↑ Journalistiek in Nederland 1850-2000 - Beroep, Cultuur en Organizie by Huub Wijfjes, p. 384 (Dutch)
  5. ↑ "Archief Wim Klinkenberg" at the International Institute of Social History (Dutch)
  6. ↑ Verrips, p. 397
personal data
SURNAME Baruch, Friedl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baruch, Siegfried (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD, CPN) and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1995
Place of death Mountains