Josef Eisenberger
Josef Eisenberger (born August 3, 1891 in Munich , † February 4, 1938 in Orotukan near Magadan , USSR ) was a communist publicist and politician ( KPD , VKPD ).
Until 1910 Eisenberger worked as a sales representative in Germany, then abroad, most recently in Russia . In 1912 Eisenberger became a member of the SPD . In the course of the outbreak of World War I , he was interned in Russia and exiled to Siberia as an enemy alien . After the October Revolution of 1917 he returned to Germany. Here he was initially a member of the USPD , from 1919 of the KPD . From 1920 to 1923 he was editor of the Neue Zeitung in Bavaria , during the same period he was also active for the secretariat of the KPD district leadership in southern Bavaria and a member of the state parliament (MdL) in Bavaria (among other things as a member of the constitutional committee; his successor in the state parliament became Karl Grönsfelder ).
In October 1920 Eisenberger was sentenced to two years in prison, which he served in Landsberg .
In 1923 he was appointed to the central committee of the KPD. From May of that year he was secretary of the German section in Moscow at the Executive Committee of the Communist International (EKKI). In 1924 he became a member of the Communist Party of Russia (KPR (B)). He appeared as a denunciator to “deviants” from the law. In 1937 he was sentenced to several years' imprisonment in the SewWostLag , Dalstroi's main camp, for “ counter-revolutionary activity” . A year later he died of heart failure, malnutrition and frostbite and was buried in the camp cemetery in Orotukan.
On December 1, 1958, Eisenberger was posthumously rehabilitated by the Moscow War Tribunal. Eisenberger was married to a Russian princely daughter in the Soviet Union and had sons Iossif (* 1918) and Andrej (* 1924), called Anarik.
Fonts
- Lenin up close: the Russian comrades at work, criticism of Kautsky's work: “Terrorism and Communism” . Publishing cooperative “Der Kampf”, 1919.
literature
- Eisenberger, Josef . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6
- Andrej Eisenberger : If I don't scream, I'll suffocate , Weltbild, Augsburg, 2003, ISBN 3-8289-7353-1 .
Web links
- Josef Eisenberger in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
- Josef Eisenberger in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
- Josef Eisenberger at gulag.memorial.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eisenberger, Josef |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eisenberger, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | communist publicist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1938 |
| Place of death | Orotukan near Magadan , USSR |