Max Schneider (politician, 1909)

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Max Schneider (born November 19, 1909 in Böhmisch Leipa , Austria-Hungary, † February 2, 1958 ) was a Czechoslovak-German communist party official.

Life

The son of an employee attended elementary and advanced training school in his hometown. Then he received training as a commercial clerk. In 1923 Schneider joined the Communist Youth Association, five years later he became a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia . From 1930 to 1933 he worked as secretary of the Communist Youth Association in Reichenberg and from 1930 was also a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth Association. In 1930 Schneider attended a course at the school of the Communist Youth International in the Soviet Union . Between 1931 and 1933 he was secretary of the Communist Youth Association of Northern Bohemia. In 1934 Schneider went to Moscow as an instructor for the Communist Youth International . He returned to Czechoslovakia in 1935 and became secretary of the Communist Youth Union in Prague. In 1937 he switched to the party newspaper Rote Fahne as head of propaganda . After the German occupation of the "remaining Czech Republic " , Schneider emigrated to Great Britain via Poland in 1939. There he worked as an employee both for the emigre management of the Communist Party of Germany and for the Czech Refugee Trust Fund . After internment as an "enemy alien" in 1940, Schneider worked as a forest worker in Cumberland . In 1941 he joined the Czechoslovak Brigade.

After the end of the Second World War, Schneider returned to Czechoslovakia in 1945. There he worked as a communist economic functionary and was responsible for the resettlement of German anti-fascists in the Soviet occupation zone . In 1946 he moved to East Berlin himself and joined the KPD. Schneider initially worked as the main advisor in the press department of the central committee of the KPD and, after the founding of the SED through the compulsory merger of the SPD and KPD, as the main advisor for press and radio advertising in the central secretariat of the party executive. In 1947 Schneider attended the first journalism course at the party college "Karl Marx" at the Central Committee of the SED and was then appointed as deputy head of the press and radio advertising department in the central secretariat of the party executive. In 1949 he became secretary of the SED regional leadership for Greater Berlin and from 1950 first deputy of the agitation department at the SED Central Committee. In 1952 Schneider received the post of secretary of the National Development Committee for Greater Berlin and in 1953 he was appointed head of the agitation and propaganda department of the Berlin SED district leadership.

In November 1955, the previous party official moved to the DEFA documentary film studio as editor-in-chief and deputy director . He held these offices until his death. Schneider died in 1958 at the age of 48 and was buried in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Communication from the Central Committee of the SED. In: Neues Deutschland , February 16, 1958, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak-German communist party functionary
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bohemian Leipa , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1958