Karl Gaile

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Karl Gaile (born October 11, 1905 in Schöneberg , † November 19, 1979 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ), interbrigadist and diplomat .

Life

Karl Julius August Gaile, son of the bricklayer Wilhelm Gaile and the cleaning woman Ida Emma Emilie born. Bronów was born in the main road 86 and attended the elementary and continuation school in Berlin. He completed an apprenticeship as a car mechanic . From 1920 to 1932 he worked as a worker and driver . In 1920 he became a member of the SAJ , in 1931 he joined the KPD.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he took part in the communist resistance . He was an operations instructor in KPD sub-district 5 in Berlin. He was arrested in May 1933. He was imprisoned as a “ protective prisoner ” until December 1933 in the Berlin police prison, in the Plötzensee prison and in the Brandenburg concentration camp . After his release , he emigrated to Switzerland .

From December 1933 to August 1935 he did illegal border work from there and was an instructor. From September 1935 to February 1937 Gaile stayed in the Soviet Union , including for treatment in a hospital and in a sanatorium. He then studied from January to December 1936 at the Institute for Foreign Languages ​​in Moscow .

In February 1937 Gaile went to Spain to fight on the side of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. First at the officers' school in Pozo Rubio, he was then sergeant in the XI. Brigade, from October 1937 adjutant of the battalion commissar, from January to April 1938 political leader of the XI. Brigade, later head of propaganda in the German department at the General War Commissariat ( André Marty and Luigi Longo ).

From February 1939 he stayed in France and was imprisoned there in various camps until 1944. After the self-liberation he found connection to a partisan unit, most recently he was deputy battalion commander of the Maquis unit Jean Pirson in southern France (code name: Charles Cailler ). From late autumn 1944 he was a member of the management of the Comité Allemagne libre pour l'Ouest (CALPO, Committee Free Germany for the West), and later he headed the Southern France section of CALPO. In 1945/46 he was responsible for the political work of the KPD in the prisoner of war camps in France.

In 1946 he returned to Germany. From 1946 to 1949 he was an employee, later the main consultant of the main traffic administration in the German Economic Commission , he also worked as a teacher at the Berlin State Party School. From December 1949 he worked in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the SED , initially as the main advisor for transport in the Economic Policy Department of the Central Committee of the SED, and from April 1950 as Deputy Head of the Economic Policy Department. From November 1951 to 1953 he was deputy head of the trade and transport department of the SED Central Committee. In 1953 he headed the trade, transport and communications department of the Central Committee of the SED, and from 1953 to 1959 the management and training department in the GDR Ministry of Transport . In 1960 he was head of the GDR trade agency in Damascus and from 1961 to 1965 consul there . In 1965 Gaile retired as a party veteran.

tomb

His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Awards

memories

  • Episodes from the Maquis . In: Dora Schaul : Resistance. Memories of German anti-fascists . Dietz, Berlin 1973, pp. 214-218.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Schöneberg I No. 2486/1905 .
personal data
SURNAME Gaile, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Charles Cailler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD, SED), Spain fighter and functionary
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Schöneberg
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 1979
Place of death Berlin