Heinz Bausch

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Heinz Bausch (born March 30, 1899 in the Ruhr area ; † 1974 ) was a German miner, communist and former political prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp , who made a career in the People's Police after the liberation from the Nazi regime .

Live and act

After elementary school, Bausch learned the trade of miner like his father did. He became a member of the KPD and was a company commander of the Red Ruhr Army during the Ruhr uprising . From 1920 to 1922 he was a works council . During the Weimar Republic , he was on trial for high treason and served a six-year prison sentence. Then he worked as a functionary of the KPD in Saxony. In 1931/32 he completed courses at the International Lenin School in Moscow. After his return in 1933, he took part in the anti-fascist resistance in the National Socialist German Reich . He was arrested in Zwickau in 1933 and remained in custody during the Nazi era . From 1935 he was imprisoned in Waldheim prison, from where he was transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938. Most recently he was Kapo in the camp's effects room and witnessed the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945. In a report of two American officers on the role of the Communists in Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after liberation pad was was with another prisoner functionaries among others by name Hein captain and Arthur Dietzsch (of a communist was) adversely mentioned in connection with not committed by the SS brutality.

After his liberation, he took part in the development of the German People's Police (DVP) in Saxony from June 1945 , where he held various leading positions. As Erich Reschke's successor , he headed the Bautzen I prison from 1950 to 1953 . Most recently he headed the district authority of the DVP in Leipzig as a colonel until his retirement in 1959. Bausch was a member of the SED .

Bausch last lived as a veteran in Dresden.

Awards

literature

  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 35 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Lutz Niethammer (Ed.): The “cleaned up” anti-fascism. The SED and the red kapos from Buchenwald. Documents. Akad.-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-05-002647-2 .
  • Wolfgang Röll: Social Democrats in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-417-X , p. 233 (short biography).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 35.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Röll: Social Democrats in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-417-X , p. 233.
  3. ^ Human penal system and political abuse: on the history of the penal institutions in Bautzen, 1904 to 2000. Saxon State Ministry of Justice, 1999, p. 137.
  4. ^ High government awards on May 1, 1974 . In: Neues Deutschland , April 27, 1974, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Bausch, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German miner, communist and former political prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruhr area
DATE OF DEATH 1974