Karl Bauerfeind

Karl Bauerfeind (born August 31, 1903 in Schwaderbach ; † October 3, 1988 ) was a German party functionary ( KPTsch / SED ) of Sudeten German origin.

Life

Bauerfeind, the son of a musical instrument maker and a worker, attended elementary school and secondary school in Graslitz . He then completed an apprenticeship as a furniture polisher. Between 1919 and 1932 he worked in various companies in the musical instrument, textile and coal industries in neighboring Saxony . In 1922 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Czechoslovakia and in 1927 the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KPTsch). From 1932 to 1935 he attended the Comintern International School of Lenin in Moscow . He then acted from 1935 to 1938 as the first district secretary of the KPTsch in South Bohemia . From 1936 to 1938, Bauerfeind did illegal border work for the KPTsch.

In 1938 Bauerfeind emigrated to Great Britain , where he became a member of the Beuer group. 1939/1940 he was warehouse manager in Farlyhall, then from 1940 to 1944 forest and construction worker and 1944/1945 radio operator at TASS in London .

After the end of the Second World War , Bauerfeind went to the Soviet zone of occupation via Prague in December 1945 and joined the KPD there. He became an employee in the youth department of the Auerbach district office . From 1946 he was a member of the district secretariat of the KPD Auerbach and there secretary for propaganda. From 1946 to 1949 he worked as a secretary for culture, then as a secretary for economics at the SED district leadership in Leipzig . In 1949/50 he was the second secretary of the Chemnitz district leadership of the SED. In 1950 he became an instructor for all-German questions in the organizational instructor department of the Central Committee of the SED . In 1969 he left the Central Committee as a political employee for reasons of age and health.

Bauer enemy urn was on the Central Cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in the graves plant for the victims and persecuted by the Nazi regime buried.

Awards

• Medal of Merit of the GDR
• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1963), in silver (1968) and in gold (1973)
• Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit (1978)
• Karl Marx Order (1983)

literature

• 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. 326.

Web links

• 25th anniversary of death on the side of the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery.