Karl Kneschke

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Kneschke (center) together with Otto Nagel (right) and Otto Schwarz (left), 1952.

Karl Kneschke (born January 28, 1898 in Kratzau , † February 15, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPTSch / SED ), youth and cultural functionary. He was a member of the People's Chamber and Federal Secretary of the Kulturbund for the Democratic Renewal of Germany (KB).

Life

Kneschke, son of a working-class family, attended elementary and community school. He learned the trades of former , foundryman and cloth weaver . In 1914 he became a member of the Union of Young Workers Austria , and in 1915 he joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party as a textile worker . From 1916 to 1918 he made as a soldier military service in the Austro-Hungarian Army . From 1919 he worked full-time for the party. He played a leading role in the reconstruction of the Sudeten German Socialist Youth Movement after the First World War and in its majority transfer to the Communist Youth Association, of which he was a co-founder in 1920. In 1921 he was a delegate at the founding party congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KPTSch) and co-founder of the German section of the KPTsch.

1921 to 1929 Kneschke worked as district secretary of the KPTsch in Tetschen-Bodenbach , Karlsbad and Reichenberg . From 1929 to 1933 he was district secretary of the KPTsch Reichenberg. In 1929/1930 he was imprisoned for " secret bundling ". From 1930 he acted as central secretary of the KPTsch-related workers' sports and culture association. In 1938 he emigrated to England . In exile worked there as editor of the cultural magazine Einheit . In 1945 he returned to Czechoslovakia. In 1946 he moved to the Soviet occupation zone . There he joined the KPD and the SED. From February 1946 to 1951 he was Saxon State Secretary of the KB. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a presidential councilor, from 1950 to 1957 as federal secretary and first federal secretary of the KB. From 1951 to 1957 he was a member of the Presidential Council. Between 1953 and 1959 he was also editor-in-chief of the KB magazine Natur und Heimat .

From 1949 to 1958 Kneschke was a member of the Volkskammer, where he founded the GDR's Nature Conservation Act in 1954.

From 1950 to 1959 he was a member of the scientific advisory board at the Museum of German History in Berlin . From 1954 to 1959 he was a member of the "German League for the United Nations". His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Fonts

  • The cultural work in small places . Kulturbund, Leipzig 1954.
  • The tasks of the Kulturbund in the new course . Kulturbund, Berlin 1954.
  • Ten years of the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany . Kulturbund, Berlin 1955.
  • Educated by life. Youth years of a worker . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1960.

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  1. ↑ later name of the organization from 1963: League for the United Nations of the GDR. Archives in the German Federal Archives
personal data
SURNAME Kneschke, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPTsch, SED), MdV, Federal Secretary of the KB
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Scratching
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1959
Place of death Berlin