Hermann Maschke
Hermann Maschke (born December 8, 1906 in Proschwitz an der Neisse , today Proseč nad Nisou , district of Jablonec nad Nisou ; † June 16, 1981 ) was a German politician ( KPTsch / SED ), Spain fighter and member of the German People's Police .
Life
Maschke was born into a working-class family and worked as a textile worker after completing school. In 1924 he became a member of the Communist Youth Association of Czechoslovakia, in 1925 a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KPTsch) and a member of the KPTsch district leadership Reichenberg . He was unemployed for six years. From 1936 to 1938 he was a member of the Second Battalion of the XI. International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War . In 1939 he was stripped of his German citizenship. He was imprisoned in Spain from 1938 to 1942. In 1942 he was extradited to Germany by the Spanish authorities and was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until liberation .
In 1945 Maschke became a member of the KPD , in 1946 of the SED. He joined the German People's Police (VP) and was temporarily secretary of the SED basic organization of the district authority of the German People's Police in Schwerin. He remained a member of the VP until 1958, most recently in the rank of major . From 1958 to 1962 he was chairman of the District Party Control Commission (BPKK) Schwerin of the SED and a member of the office of the SED district leadership.
Awards
- Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1959) and in silver (1966)
literature
- Jan Foitzik: Management transfer. The organized deployment of Sudeten German communists in the Soviet occupation zone 1945/46 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 31 (1983), issue 2, pp. 308–334 (short biography of Maschke, p. 331).
- 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. 516.
- Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED. History, organization, politics. A manual. Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 1024.
Individual evidence
Ewald Kultermann (1952–1958) | Hermann Maschke (1958–1962) | Rolf Schurisch (1962–1965) | Eva Naujoks (1965–1974) | Hermann Redlin (1974–1989)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maschke, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist, Spain fighter, employee of the German People's Police |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Proschwitz on the Neisse , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1981 |