Karl Raab (party official)

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Karl Raab (front 1st from right) 1976

Karl Raab (born May 3, 1906 in Berlin ; † May 11, 1992 in Berlin) was head of the financial administration and party operations department of the SED Central Committee .

Life

Karl Raab was born and raised in a Berlin working-class family. He completed a commercial apprenticeship at Dresdner Bank . Early on, he became involved in the union and he was a member of the council elected Dresdner Bank. He was also a functionary in the »Fichte« workers' sports club . In 1927 he joined the KPD . He also founded the Dresdner Bank operating cell of the KPD and was its political director. He wrote articles for the Rote Fahne and for the employee newspapers "Kampfstimme" and "An Arbeiter-Kampf". He was a member of the Central Workers' Correspondents Commission at the Central Committee of the KPD. In 1928 he founded the KPD company newspaper "Rote Bilanz" and was its editor until 1934. In May 1931 he drove as a delegate of the VI. German workers' delegation to the Soviet Union . Because of a report on this trip, he was terminated by Dresdner Bank on June 30, 1931, but had to be reinstated after a judgment by the Berlin State Labor Court. Thereupon the bank management gave him a house ban. Until February 1932 he was still a member of the Dresdner Bank works council. On February 24, 1932, the dismissal was confirmed by the Reich Labor Court in Leipzig.

Raab became an accountant in the communist publishing house “Rote Fahne”. From January 1933 until the KPD was banned in March 1933, he was managing director of the KPD's International Workers' Publishing House in Berlin. Raab went underground and was responsible for organizational issues of the Berlin state leadership of the KPD. In January 1935 he emigrated to the USSR. He first studied at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West . From September 1935 to August 1937 he attended the Lenin School in Moscow under the pseudonym Arthur Fiedler . Subsequently, Raab was deputy editor-in-chief of the German department on Moscow radio until April 1945 . In 1939 he was stripped of his German citizenship. In October 1941 he was evacuated to Kuibyshev with the transmitter.

Raab returned to Germany on May 6, 1945 as a member of the Sobottka group . He initially worked as the editor of the newspaper of the 2nd Belarusian Front "Deutsche Zeitung" in Western Pomerania. In July 1945 he was appointed editor-in-chief of the “ Schweriner Volkszeitung ” and a member of the national leadership of the KPD. After the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED , he went to Berlin and became Anton Ackermann's personal assistant in the central secretariat of the SED . From January 1947 to November 1948 he was first deputy head and then head of the party training, culture and education department in the central secretariat of the SED. He was a co-founder of various newspapers and publishers, including Sportecho and Sportverlag . From December 1, 1948, he was the main department head in the main finance administration of the German Economic Commission (DWK) and editor-in-chief of the magazine Deutsche Finanzwirtschaft . On December 1, 1949, he was then deputy chief cashier in the SED secretariat. From 1950 to 1982 he was head of the financial administration and party operations department of the SED Central Committee and in this position was also responsible for the financial matters of the CDU , LDPD and NDPD bloc parties . From 1950 Raab was also a member of the Central Revision Commission of the SED and from 1974 a member of the central management of the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters . After his retirement in 1982 he became an honorary member of the Central Veterans Commission of the Central Committee of the SED.

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SURNAME Raab, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1992
Place of death Berlin