Hans Pink

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Hans Pink (born April 14, 1906 in Saarbrücken , † May 14, 1974 in Völklingen ) was a Saarland politician ( KPD ) and resistance fighter .

The metal worker became a member of the Saarland KPD in 1924. He was involved in the Red Aid of Germany (RHD) and was the organ leader of the RHD Saar. As such he organized a. a. organized a solidarity campaign for Ernst Thälmann and managed to visit him in prison in May 1934 with a delegation from Saarland.

In 1932 he was elected to the last Landesrat of the Saar area . During an illegal stay in the German Reich, he was arrested in 1933 and temporarily taken into protective custody. After the Saar referendum in 1935 , he emigrated to France, like many opponents of Nazism in the Saarland, where he earned his living in a quarry. After his internment in 1939, he managed to escape from the camp and joined the Resistance .

After the war he returned to Saarland and worked there as a functionary in the Saar Metal Association. He was also active again in the Saarland KPD - even after 1957, when the KPD ban was implemented in Saarland . In 1961 he supported August Hey in his candidacy for a seat in the German Bundestag.

He was married to Maria Pink (1904–1988, née Maria Oster), who had been a KPD member since 1932 and who, together with her husband, was also involved in the Resistance.

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