Karl Hans Bergmann
Karl Hans Bergmann (born March 17, 1910 in Berlin , † August 19, 2007 ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism, a communist politician and publicist. In 1945 he was a co-founder of DEFA in East Berlin. Until 1948 he was a member of the board.
Life
Bergmann was the son of a doctor. After graduating from high school, Bergmann studied history and theater studies from 1929 to 1932. 1930–1932 he was assistant director at the Volksbühne Berlin . In 1931 he joined the KPD . He was a member of the Reich Committee of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) and since the end of 1932 head of the RGO group film-stage-music. Bergmann was involved in the anti-fascist resistance, was co-editor of the illegal magazine Die Rampe and was arrested in 1935. He spent four years in various prisons and in the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps . After his release he worked illegally in the resistance group around Beppo Römer until he emigrated to Switzerland in 1942. There he took over the chairmanship of the provisional leadership of the Free Germany Movement in 1943 . In 1945 Bergmann returned to Berlin. From 1946 to 1949 he was a license holder and board member of DEFA. After Bergmann was interrogated by the Central Party Control Commission of the SED in the course of the Noel Field affair and ran the risk of becoming involved in the impending late Stalinist purge, he fled to West Berlin in the winter of 1949 . Until 1950 he worked as a freelancer for Die Neue Zeitung . From 1952 to 1968 he took over the management of the Freie Volksbühne Berlin . Since then he has been a freelance writer.
In his autobiographical study Sleep Before Awakening , he illuminates the period from 1931 to 1949, the time of his membership in the KPD and SED.
Works
- Sleep before awakening. DEFA Foundation, 2002, ISBN 3-929470-28-4 .
- Blanqui: a rebel in the 19th century. Frankfurt 1986, ISBN 3-593-33593-X .
- Babeuf. Equal and unequal. West German publishing house, Cologne / Opladen 1965.
- The "Free Germany" movement in Switzerland. 1943 - 1945. With a contribution by Wolfgang Stock: Swiss refugee policy and the exiled German labor movement 1933 - 1943. Hanser, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-446-11948-5 .
literature
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , pp. 89-90.
- Gottfried Hamacher . With the assistance of André Lohmar: Against Hitler - Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement: short biographies . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin. Volume 53. ISBN 3-320-02941-X ( PDF )
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Karl Hans Bergmann . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Hans Bergmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ George Hermann Hodos: Show trials. Stalinist purges in Eastern Europe 1948-1954 . Berlin 2001.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergmann, Karl Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 2007 |