Josef Borst

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Josef Borst (born November 7, 1917 in Komotau , † March 28, 1985 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPTsch / SED ) of Sudeten German origin.

Life

Borst, son of a working-class family, attends elementary and commercial training schools . He completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1932 and then worked in this profession. In 1927 he became a member of the Red Young Pioneers and in 1932 of the Communist Youth Association of Czechoslovakia. In 1935 he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KPTsch). In 1938 he attended the central school of the KPTsch.

In 1939 he emigrated to Great Britain , from October 1941 to December 1945 he was a member of the Czechoslovak Army in Great Britain, France and Belgium . In May 1945 he returned to Czechoslovakia and completed military training as a corporal in the Czechoslovak army. In March 1946 he moved to the Soviet occupation zone . He became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and from April to July 1945 worked for the consumer cooperatives in Dessau . From 1946 he was also a member of the Central Council of the Free German Youth (FDJ). From August 1946 to December 1949 he was initially an employee, then from November 1946 head of the youth and sport department at the SED's Brandenburg regional board . In 1949/50 he studied at the party college "Karl Marx" of the SED. From 1950 he then headed the mass agitation department at the secretariat of the SED state committee in Brandenburg. On July 7, 1950, Borst moved up for Paul Merker in the Brandenburg state parliament .

In October 1950 he was released by the secretariat of the state executive for a post in the central party apparatus and appointed as an instructor in the organization instructor department. Between June and September 1951 he worked as an editor at Neues Deutschland , after which he was transferred back to the organizational instructor department.

Borst last worked in the League for Friendship of Nations of the GDR . He retired early in 1976 and lived in Berlin. Borst died after a long and serious illness at the age of 67 and was buried in the grove of honor for anti-fascist resistance fighters and fighters for the construction of socialism at the Baumschulenweg cemetery.

Awards

literature

  • Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52 . LIT Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6321-2 , p. 921.
  • Heike van Hoorn : New home in socialism. The resettlement and integration of Sudeten German Antifa resettlers in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Klartext, Essen 2004, ISBN 3-89861-241-4 , p. 327f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of the League for Friendship of Nations in New Germany , April 16, 1985, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Illustration of the tombstone .
personal data
SURNAME Borst, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPTsch, SED)
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Komotau
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1985
Place of death Berlin