Leo Borochowicz

Leo Borochowicz (* around 1900 in Russian Poland ; † February 4, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German-Polish politician and publicist.

Borochowicz came to Berlin as a student in 1918 or 1919 , where he worked in the following years for the two most important publications of the KPD , the Red Flag and the International . He usually drew his articles with Leo or Peregrinus . From the beginning he had close personal and political relationships with August Thalheimer , who regarded him as his "student". After 1924 Borochowicz contributed significantly to the theoretical self-understanding of the current around Thalheimer and Brandler and had been a member of the KPD-O from January 1929 , of which he belonged to the Reich leadership. He was also a frequent author of the party magazine Gegen den Strom and a leading member of the IVKO office . In 1933 he emigrated to Paris via Strasbourg and, together with Thalheimer, shaped the political line of the foreign committee of the KPD-O until 1938. In 1938/39 there was a complete rift between him and Thalheimer; Borochowicz was expelled from the foreign committee, resigned from the KPD-O and went to the USA before the outbreak of war , where he worked closely with Jay Lovestone , who had supported him in the previous dispute and had also obtained the necessary entry visa for him. After 1945 Lovestone integrated him (as well as Kuno Brandel , who also came from the KPD-O ) into the work of the Free Trade Union Committee - one of the most important and complex false flag operations of the American State Department or the CIA in the post-war decades . Borochowicz was editor-in-chief of the German and French editions of the FTUC magazine International Free Trade Union News until his death . His wife Elly also worked for the FTUC or the Department of International Affairs of the AFL-CIO .

literature

• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Bergmann, Theodor, “Against the Current”. History of the Communist Party Opposition, Hamburg 1987, pp. 361, 431, as well as the same, The Thalheimers. The story of a family of undogmatic Marxists, Hamburg 2004, p. 172.
2. ↑ See Bergmann, Gegen den Strom, pp. 305f., 320f.