Hans Klein (politician, 1904)
Hans "Knud" Klein (born May 5, 1904 in Hamburg-Billstedt ; † August 29, 1970 in East Berlin ) was a German communist politician and, as general, deputy chief of the People's Police (DVP) in the GDR .
Life
The son of an office worker and a farm worker learned the trade of a baker after attending primary school. In 1923 he became a member of the KPD , was imprisoned several times and in 1934 was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for “preparing for high treason”. In 1937 he emigrated to Denmark , where he met his wife, and in 1943 to Sweden .
In December 1945 he returned to Germany, worked in the Soviet occupation zone as an instructor or first secretary of the SED district leadership of Waren (Müritz) , from 1948 in Wismar . On November 25, 1947, he succeeded Hermann Witteborn as a member of the Mecklenburg state parliament and was a cadre leader in the SED state leadership from January to August 1950. He then went to Berlin , joined the DVP, and in October 1950 succeeded Heinz Hoffmann as Deputy Head of the DVP and Head of the Political Culture Department with the rank of General Inspector. After a conflict with the DVP leader Karl Maron and shortly after an illness in December 1950, this function was withdrawn from him again in the course of a review of the "Western emigrants" by the Central Party Control Commission of the SED. He then attended the party college , in 1953 became party organizer of the SED Central Committee in the Transformatorenwerk in Berlin-Oberschöneweide and in August 1953 he was co-opted into the SED district leadership in Berlin . In 1959 he became an instructor in the International Department of the Central Committee of the SED and retired from professional life in 1961 for health reasons. Klein was the holder of the GDR Medal of Merit and the "Fighters Against Fascism" medal and last lived as a pensioner in Berlin-Friedrichshain.
literature
- Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 1: Lexicon of organizations and institutions, departmental union management , League for Friendship between Nations (= rororo-Handbuch. Vol. 6348). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16348-9 , p. 223.
- Michael F. Scholz : Klein, Hans (Knud) . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael F. Scholz: Do you want Scandinavian experiences? Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07651-4 , also habilitation thesis, University of Greifswald 1999, here p. 138. on Google Books
- ^ New Germany of August 9, 1953.
- ^ Obituary of the SED district leadership Berlin-Friedrichshain, in: Neues Deutschland , September 3, 1970.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klein, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Small, Knud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German General of the People's Police |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg-Billstedt |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1970 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |