Herbert Ansbach

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Herbert Ansbach (born March 2, 1913 in Tarnowitz , † July 31, 1988 in Berlin ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism and SED functionary in the GDR. From 1956 to 1958 he was Secretary General of the Chamber for Foreign Trade of the GDR.

Life

After graduating from high school , the son of a Jewish businessman Herbert Ansbach began an apprenticeship as a shoemaker, from which he was dismissed in 1929 for taking part in a strike . He then began a commercial apprenticeship in 1929 and worked in this profession until 1931. In the same year he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD). He was smuggled into the Socialist Youth Association within the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD) in a covert operation , where he did so-called disintegration work until 1932.

In 1931 Ansbach made his KJVD membership public and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After he had resumed his schooling at the Karl Marx School in Berlin-Neukölln in 1931 , he was Reichsleiter of the Socialist Student Union (SSB) and editor of the SSB magazine Der Schulkampf from 1932 . After the National Socialists came to power and communist activities were banned, Ansbach also supported the party in illegality. Since he was under surveillance by the Secret State Police (Gestapo), he emigrated to Paris in June 1933 . In the late summer of 1934 he returned to Berlin and became political director of the KJVD for the sub-district Berlin-Südost and was one of the leading members of the Berlin resistance group around Herbert Baum .

Ansbach was arrested in early 1936 and sentenced to two and a half years in prison at the end of October 1936 for “preparing for high treason ” . Due to a serious heart disease, he was released from prison in Brandenburg in 1937 and emigrated to Czechoslovakia in January 1938 and to Great Britain in March 1939 . There he met his future wife Vera Meyer . After the outbreak of war he was interned in England as an "enemy alien" and deported to Australia . Ansbach was able to return to England in 1941, worked as an employee until the end of the war and was involved in the Free German Cultural Association . His parents, who could not leave Germany, were deported to Riga in 1942 and murdered.

In August 1946 came Ansbach back to Germany, was member of the SED and was at the October foreign editor News Agency General German intelligence service (ADN). From May 1947 he was an employee of the German Administration of the Interior and until March 1949 head of the office for the protection of public property in the state of Brandenburg .

From March to December 1949 Ansbach was a consultant in the central secretariat of the SED party executive , first in the cadre department , then in the economic department. After the founding of the GDR, however, he was discriminated against as a "Western emigrant" and temporarily dismissed from his functions in the SED. In 1949 Ansbach became head of the Association of People's Own Enterprises (VVB) Spiritus . In 1955 he became head of the Technik publishing house . From 1956 to 1958 Ansbach was Secretary General of the Chamber for Foreign Trade of the GDR. In 1959 he retired for health reasons. Ansbach was a member of the district committee for anti-fascist resistance fighters in Berlin .

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  1. ↑ Brigitte Schmiemann: Exhibition against forgetting In: Die Welt , January 26, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Ansbach, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary, resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnowitz
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1988
Place of death Berlin