Paul Hentschel

This article deals with the politician Paul Hentschel. For other people see Paul Henschel .

Paul Hentschel (born October 26, 1913 in Breslau , † November 20, 1959 in Magdeburg ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was chairman of the council of the Magdeburg district .

Life

Hentschel, the son of a shipbuilder and a worker, attended elementary school and did an apprenticeship as a stone setter from 1928 to 1931 . In 1930 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany . In the years 1931 to 1934 Hentschel was unemployed, in 1934/35 he had been made compulsory for the Reich labor service . From 1935 to 1940 he practiced his learned profession in Breslau, Plön and Gleiwitz . In December 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . As a private, he went over to the Red Army in February 1942 and was taken prisoner by the Soviets . In 1943 he was a founding member of the National Committee “Free Germany” (NKFD) in Krasnogorsk and attended the Central Antifa School there , and from January 1945 the KPD party school in Moscow .

In May 1945 Hentschel returned to Germany and joined the KPD. In 1946 he became a member of the SED when the SPD and KPD were forced to unite . From May to July 1945 he was head of human resources at the city ​​council of Greater Berlin . From July 1945 to 1949 he then worked as the head of the personnel department of the state government of Brandenburg . From 1949 to 1951 he was deputy head of the state administration department at the Central Committee of the SED . On April 28, 1950, by resolution of the SED secretariat, Hentschel was appointed "political advisor" for the implementation of the Waldheim trials . From August 30, 1951 to June 1953, Hentschel was city ​​councilor for administration and personnel policy in the Berlin magistrate and from February 13, 1953 to June 1953, secretary of the magistrate.

From June 1953 until his death in 1959 he was finally chairman of the council of the Magdeburg district and a member of the district assembly as well as a member of the local SED district leadership and its office.

Hentschel died at the age of 46 as a result of a heart attack . His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1955) and in silver (1959)
• Medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945 (1958)

literature

• Andreas Herbst :  Hentschel, Paul . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 232f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of August 31, 1953.
2. ^ Berliner Zeitung of February 14, 1953.
3. ↑ New Times of November 24, 1959.
4. ^ New Germany of December 16, 1959.