Joseph Rubens

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Joseph Rubens (born January 18, 1900 in Schalke , † October 29, 1969 in East Berlin ) was a German doctor and police officer. He was major general and from 1948 to 1959 head of the main health department of the German People's Police and the administration of medical services of the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR .

Life

Rubens, son of Salomon and Julia Rubens, became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) as a young doctor in 1931 . As the responsible KPD functionary, he actively fought against fascism.

He went into Soviet exile , initially lived in Moscow and was in NKVD custody from March 1938 to November 1939 as an alleged "class enemy" . On October 16, 1941, he and his wife Franziska Rubens (1894–1971), whom he had married in Soviet exile, were evacuated from Moscow to Uzbekistan by a decision of the party . He was employed as a doctor in the medical combine of the then largest silk mill in the Soviet Union in Margelan and his wife as a teacher of the German language in the Russian school.

The couple returned to Germany in the Soviet zone of occupation in 1948 . He became a member of the German People's Police (VP) and a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). As chief inspector of the VP , he took on the role of head of the main health department of the German People's Police and, after the founding of the GDR in October 1949, headed the administration of the medical services of the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR (MdI). In July 1957 he was reassessed to major general. In 1959 he was replaced by Friedrich Oberdoerster and retired.

Rubens died at the age of 69. His urn was buried in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde , Pergolenweg.

Awards

literature

  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 1: Lexicon of organizations and institutions, departmental union management , League for Friendship between Nations (= rororo-Handbuch. Vol. 6348). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16348-9 , p. 224.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Congratulations from the Central Committee . In: Neues Deutschland , January 19, 1960, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Biographical databases: BERGMANN, HERMANN
  3. ^ A letter to the editor from Franziska and Joseph Rubens. In: Neues Deutschland , December 7, 1968, p. 9.
  4. ↑ The burial of Joseph Rubens' urn . In: Neues Deutschland , December 5, 1969, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Rubens, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and major general of the People's Police
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Schalke
DATE OF DEATH 29th October 1969
Place of death East Berlin