Paul Dietrich

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Paul Reinhold Dietrich (born November 6, 1889 in Großvargula , Province of Saxony , † November 5, 1937 in Leningrad , Russia ) was a German politician (KPD).

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Dietrich attended elementary school. Then he was trained at the secondary school in Langensalza and later at a teacher training college. In 1909 Dietrich, who worked as a teacher until 1912, joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). During the First World War , Dietrich moved to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD); after the war he joined the Communist Party of Germany .

For the KPD, Dietrich belonged to the Hamburg parliament from 1924 to 1937 . From 1928 to 1930 he sat for constituency 12 (Thuringia) in the Reichstag . Dietrich also gained importance in the KPD as editor of the Hamburger Volkszeitung , as secretary to the KPD chairman Ernst Thälmann (“Teddy's fountain pen”), as a political functionary and as a member of the central committee of the KPD.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Dietrich emigrated. After living first in Saarland and then for a while in Norway , where he was one of the most prominent German emigrants, he went to the Soviet Union in 1936. There he worked for the exile newspaper Deutsche Volkszeitung and for the Comintern .

In 1937 Dietrich was arrested and shot in the Lewaschowo district of Petersburg . In 1938 he was expatriated in Germany - where apparently nothing was known of his death. In the German Democratic Republic (GDR), after the rehabilitation of the German communists in exile murdered in Russia in the 1930s, Dietrich was venerated as an anti-fascist resistance fighter, but at the same time the cause of his death could not be mentioned.

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  • German fascism and the mass struggle of the KPD , 1932.

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Individual evidence

  1. Uwe Heilemann: Norge Med Willy. Through Norway in the footsteps of Willy Brandt , 2003, p. 23.
  2. ^ Herbert Wehner: testimony , 1982, p. 112.
  3. Dieter Staritz : The foundation of the GDR , 1984, p. 80.