Hans Günther (writer)

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Willy Fritz Hans Günther (born September 8, 1899 in Bernburg ; † November 10, 1938 in Vladivostok ) was a Marxist economist , German writer and literary critic .

life and work

Günther received his doctorate in 1923 with a thesis on Marx's theory of surplus value . He published theoretical articles, theater, film and literary reviews in the communist press.

In 1930 he joined the KPD . He wrote for Die Rote Fahne , Die Linkskurve, and became an employee of the "Agitation and Propaganda" department at the Central Committee of the KPD in Berlin . In 1932 he moved to Moscow and became a member of the Soviet Writers' Union and editor of the German-language edition of International Literature . The magazine was the organ of the International Union of Revolutionary Writers (IVRS) - an organization of the Comintern - and was published in German as well as in Russian. In 1935 he published his book The Lords Own Spirit there. The ideology of National Socialism .

In the course of the Stalin Purges , Hans Günther was arrested in the USSR on November 4, 1936 and sentenced to five years in a Gulag camp. He died of typhus in November 1938 in the Vladivostok transit camp . His Selected Writings only appeared in the GDR in 1981 .

Günther's partner Trude Richter (1899–1989) spent most of the years of emigration in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1953 in camp detention and exile . She only returned to Germany (GDR) in 1957. In her work Totgesagt. Memories Richter describes the life of Hans Günther under the abbreviation HG

literature

  • Trude Richter: Declared dead. Memories. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-354-00580-7
  • Handbook of the German Communists ( entry online )
  • Short biography Günther, Hans in: Institute for the History of the Labor Movement (Ed.): In the Fangs of the NKVD: German Victims of the Stalinist Terror in the USSR . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-320-01632-6 , p. 87

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trude Richter: Dead said . Memories. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-354-00580-7 , p. 122 f.
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Günther, Willy Fritz Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and literary theorist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernburg
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1938
Place of death Vladivostok