Karl Dienstbach

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Karl Dienstbach (born October 6, 1900 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 30, 1977 in East Berlin ) was a German communist , interbrigadist and functionary in the People's Police (VP) of the GDR .

Life

Karl Dienstbach joined the labor movement early on, becoming a union member as early as 1916. Since 1925 he was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was active in the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) in the late 1920s . In 1930 he became a functionary of the Red Trade Union International, founded in Moscow in 1921 .

From 1930 he was a parliamentarian of the KPD in Hessen-Nassau . In March 1931 Dienstbach and the member of the RGO Reichsleitung Erich Steffen were arrested in Ludwigshafen am Rhein on suspicion of engaging in industrial espionage in IG Farbenwerke for the Soviet Union . He was sentenced to two years in prison in a trial before the Frankenthal (Palatinate) regional court .

Before starting his prison sentence, he managed to emigrate to the Soviet Union in 1932, where he attended the International Lenin School and received military training. During the Spanish Civil War he fought on the side of the Republic in the International Brigades as a commander in a tank brigade. After the end of the Spanish Civil War, he returned to the Soviet Union via various countries. After Germany's attack on the USSR, Dienstbach worked as a political instructor for the National Committee Free Germany in POW camp No. 68 in Chelyabinsk .

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After the end of the Second World War , he first worked as chairman of the trade union in the Berlin-Mitte district from 1947. In 1950 he joined the German People's Police and later held managerial positions in the criminal police. Most recently he had the rank of Colonel in the VP.

Awards

Private

The urns of Karl Dienstbach and his wife Mia Niederkirchner were buried in the “Pergolenweg” grave of the Socialist Memorial at the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

Karl Dienstbach was married to Mia Niederkirchner-Dienstbach (1911–1982), the daughter of Michael Niederkirchner (1882–1949), and was thus the brother-in-law of Käthe Niederkirchner (1909–1944). Käte Niederkirchner (* 1944 in Chelyabinsk) is his daughter.

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 107.
  • Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the historical commission for Nassau. 71 = prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report in the Social Democratic Press Service, Berlin, April 14, 1931, pp. 5-6.
  2. ↑ Helmut Lüders u. a .: Patriotic writings . Volume 1 - Volume 3, p. 148, Mannheim, 2004 ISBN 3-938164-00-X .
  3. ^ Entry by Karl Dienstbach in: Nassau parliamentarians. A Biographical Handbook, Part 2 .
  4. ^ Günter Koch: Probation on the Ebro , Berliner Zeitung , April 18, 1971, p. 8.
  5. ^ New Germany of December 5, 1967.
  6. ^ New Germany of December 30, 1968.
  7. ^ New Germany of October 6, 1975.
  8. ^ New Germany of December 1, 1970
  9. ^ High awards for the national holiday of the GDR , Neues Deutschland, October 2, 1975, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Dienstbach, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist, GDR functionary and people's police officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1977
Place of death East Berlin , German Democratic Republic