Hans Weiß (journalist)

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Hans Weiß (born April 25, 1912 in Munich ; † 1992 ) was a German journalist and communist politician. He was a member of the National Committee for Free Germany (NKFD), 2nd Mayor in Senftenberg and editor-in-chief in Frankfurt (Oder) .

Life

Hans (Johann) Weiß was born on April 25, 1912 in Munich, the second of three children to a family of craftsmen. Until 1939 he was trained as a carpenter. After a time as a carpenter's journeyman, he became unemployed. He got married to Helene Holzer and had two children. At the beginning of the war in 1939, Weiß was drafted into the Wehrmacht , rank of sergeant . In 1943 he was taken prisoner of war in the USSR . After attending the Antifa school in Krasnogorsk (Lunjowo), Hans Weiß became a member of the National Committee for Free Germany . Hans Weiß returned to Germany as a member of the Anton Ackermann / Hermann Matern initiative group of the NKFD. The landing took place in Sagan behind the lines of the 1st Ukrainian Front .

He joined the KPD and became first chairman of the KPD in the Calau district . When the SPD and KPD were forced to unite , he became a member of the SED . From 1945 to 1949, Weiß was mayor of Senftenberg / Niederlausitz together with Rudi Rutzen, also a member of the initiative group . Since that time he began a relationship with Hildegard Levy, from which the son Robert Levy (* 1946) emerged. Robert Levy later called himself Robert Weiß and became a political scientist in the GDR .

After 1949, Hans Weiß was an editor and freelance journalist. Until 1952 he was the head of culture of the SED district leadership “ Märkische Volksstimme ” in Potsdam. There he had close relationships with the writers Erwin Strittmatter , Hans Marchwitza and others. From 1952 he was first editor-in-chief, then deputy editor-in-chief of the newly founded body of the district management of the SED Frankfurt (Oder) “ Neuer Tag ”. After an April Fool's joke in "New Day" on April 1, 1953, which caused a sensation among the GDR press and fell for the entire top functionaries of the SED district leadership, he was subjected to party proceedings and replaced as deputy editor-in-chief. From 1966 until his retirement in 1982, Weiß worked as a freelance journalist for the GDR foreign press service " Panorama ".

literature

  • Wolfgang Blöß: Borders and reforms in a society of upheaval: From the state of Brandenburg to the districts 1945-1952 (= publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives, vol. 66). Berliner Wiss.-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8305-3248-4 .
  • Jeannette Mittelmann: Activists from the very beginning. The Antifa in the Soviet zone of occupation . Böhlau Verlag Köln-Weimar-Wien 2002, ISBN 3-412-04602-7 , p. 127 ff.
  • Helmut Welz : The city that should die. Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1975.
  • Robert Weiß: Chronicle of a collapse: The "hot" autumn 1989 and its consequences in the countries of the Warsaw Pact. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 978-3-320-01615-9 .
  • Robert Weiß, Manfred Heinrich: The Round Table: Bankruptcy Trustees of “Real” Socialism: Analysis and Comparison of the Work of Round Tables in Europe . Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, Cologne 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jeannette Michelmann: The activists of the first hour. The Antifa 1945 in the Soviet occupation zone between the occupying power and the exiled KPD , University of Jena, Diss., 2001, DNB 964216981 , p. 130
personal data
SURNAME White, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anti-fascist, journalist and politician (KPD, SED)
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 1992