Paul Baender

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Paul Baender (born November 30, 1906 in Rosdzin ( Katowice district , Silesia ), † December 18, 1985 in Berlin ) was a German politician of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and later the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1950 to 1952 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Supply of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was arrested in 1952 as a result of the Slansky trial and expelled from the SED; in 1956 he was pardoned.

Life

The son of a German-Jewish merchant and shopkeeper moved with the family from Rosdzin, Poland, to Görlitz in 1922 . There Paul Baender finished an apprenticeship as a merchant in a weaving mill in 1925, went to Hamburg and from 1927 worked as a salesman in the Görlitz department store . He left the Jewish religious community in early 1927 and joined the KPD shortly afterwards. Recorded had him Wollweber and Arthur Ullrich . After he lost his job, the KPD deployed tapes as a functionary in various places in Silesia . At the end of 1932, Baender took over the political leadership of the subdistrict Bunzlau .

From February to May 1933 he was a member and instructor of the KPD district leadership in Silesia. In the same year, Baender emigrated to Czechoslovakia and settled in Prague . In 1937 he was expelled from Czechoslovakia and lived in Bolivia until 1947 . From 1939 to 1947 Baender was vice-president of the Committee of Free Germans in Bolivia and head of a popular front group in La Paz . Until December 1943, Baender worked for the radio station Radio Libertad in La Paz and in 1943 co-founded the association Alemania Democrática en Bolivia as the umbrella organization for German exiles in Bolivia. Baender played for Bolivia at the 8th Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires in 1939.

In November 1947, Baender returned to Germany and worked in the Organization Department of the Central Secretariat of the SED and, from April 1949, General Manager of the GDR Trade Organization (HO). From 1950 to 1952 Baender was State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Supply. Until 1953 he was also President of the predecessor organization of the German Chess Association (DSV) of the GDR.

On November 21, 1952, the Ministry of State Security (MfS) arrested the Baender couple in connection with the Slansky trial and the Paul Merker and Noel H. Field affair . The bands were relieved of all functions and excluded from the SED. In addition to tapes, the Minister for Trade and Supply Karl Hamann (LDPD) and State Secretary Rudolf Albrecht were arrested. All were charged with years of sabotage. In the central remand prison of the MfS , Baender was interrogated by Soviet investigators and officers of the MfS and mentally tortured. In May 1954 he was sentenced to twelve years in prison, which three weeks later was reduced to six years in prison. Baender was imprisoned in Brandenburg until April 1956 , when he was pardoned and released.

From 1956 to 1959, Baender was head of the district administration of HO-Industriewaren Königs Wusterhausen in Eichwalde . In February 1957 the exclusion from the SED was lifted. In 1959, Baender became the head of the communal fruit and vegetable wholesaler in East Berlin . From 1961 to 1967 he was head of the HO department store on Alexanderplatz . From 1967 to 1971 Baender was a research associate at the Ministry of Trade and Supply. In 1971 he retired.

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  1. ↑ http://www.olimpbase.org/1939/1939bol.html
  2. ↑ President of the German Chess Federation on schachbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Tapes, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party functionary (KPD, SED), State Secretary in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosdzin, Katowice County
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1985
Place of death Berlin