Hans Schaul
Hans Schaul (born December 13, 1905 in Hohensalza ; died May 10, 1988 in East Berlin ) was a German interbrigadist, editor and politician.
Life
Schaul attended a humanistic grammar school in Frankfurt (Oder) from 1915 and studied economics and law at the universities of Berlin, Freiburg and Heidelberg from 1925 to 1928. He then worked as a trainee lawyer at courts in Berlin for three years. During this time he married the author Ruth Rewald in 1929 . She and their daughter (* 1937) were killed in Auschwitz. From 1932 he was admitted to the bar and from then on worked as a lawyer in Berlin. Because of his Jewish origins, he was banned from working in 1933 and fled to Paris. There he joined the KPD. From there he moved to Spain to take part in the Spanish Civil War as a lieutenant in the International Brigades on the Republican side from 1936 . At times he worked in the office of the Inspector General of the International Gallo Brigades . and became editor of several newspapers. He returned to France in 1938, where he worked in the aid committee for the German Spanish fighters in Paris. In September 1937 he was interned in St. Jean-de-la-Ruelle near Orléans. He was sent to various camps until he joined a British labor company in Algeria in 1943. In 1944 he traveled to the USSR , where he arrived in November. At first he was an instructor in camps for French and Japanese prisoners of war, later a teacher at various Antifa schools , including the Antifa School No. 2041 in the village of Talizy.
In 1948 the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ordered his return to Germany, where he later married Dora Davidsohn . At first, however, Schaul was a personal employee of the chairman of the German Economic Commission Heinrich Rau , also a Spanish fighter. He later became head of the legal department and head of a main department in the German Economic Commission. From 1949 he worked in the Ministry of Planning , which was converted into the State Planning Commission from 1950 . Between 1951 and 1956 Schaul was a professor at the Berlin School of Economics . After that he was editor-in-chief of the SED magazine Einheit until 1972 . In 1955 and 1971 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit , in 1975 the Medal of Honor for the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold and in 1965 the Karl Marx Order .
His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 8, Munich a. Leipzig, KG Saur, p. 778.
- Andreas Herbst : Schaul, Hans . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schaul, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German editor and politician (KPD, SED) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hohensalza |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1988 |
| Place of death | Berlin |