Hans Bonkas
Hans Bonkas (born August 26, 1921 in Dresden ; † November 7, 2012 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German social democrat who was politically persecuted in the GDR and who moved to the FRG in 1956. After his retirement he became a board member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and was its federal chairman from 2004 to 2010.
Life
Bonkas grew up in a social democratic family and in 1932 joined the "Jungbanner", the youth organization of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . In the Third Reich he took part in leaflet campaigns against Hitler . After his conscription in the Second World War , he was in North Africa severely wounded. After a long recovery period, it was no longer usable for use on the weapon.
After the war, Bonkas worked as head of the court treasury in Halle an der Saale . After the forced unification of the SPD and KPD in the Soviet occupation zone , which he did not support himself, he became politically active underground. He informed the east office of the SPD in Berlin about the situation in Halle until he was sentenced to death by a Soviet court for “inciting against the Soviet Union ” and “betraying the working class” . The sentence was then converted to 25 years in prison , seven of which he spent in Bautzen . In 1956 he was released and released to the FRG . There he lived in Frankfurt am Main and started as a senior judicial officer in the Frankfurt district court . When he retired in 1986, he worked there as the personnel manager.
Since 1990, Hans Bonkas has been active on the federal board of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, which was newly founded after the war, from 2004 to 2010 as federal chairman and most recently as honorary chairman. The Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy made him an honorary member in 2006.
He was buried in the Enkheimer Friedhof in Frankfurt.
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit
- Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr in gold
- Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , 2004
- Hessian Order of Merit on ribbon, 2009
- Citizen Medal of the City of Frankfurt am Main , 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ buchwald.de
- ^ A b Against Forgetting - For Democracy eV: Honorary member Hans Bonkas died , accessed on June 11, 2017.
- ↑ Tobias Rösmann: Escaped death under Hitler and Stalin . In: FAZ . January 27, 2012, accessed June 11, 2017.
- ↑ Awarded the Hessian Order of Merit on December 16, 2009 . In: The Hessian Prime Minister (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 2010 No. 1 , p. 837 , 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.0 MB ]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bonkas, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German employee at the court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 2012 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |