Paul Jahnke

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Paul Jahnke (born August 13, 1893 in Pasewalk ; † October 27, 1951 in East Berlin ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Jahnke completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer and was recruited for military service in 1916. In 1917 he became a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany . In 1919 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and in 1920 the Communist Workers' Party of Germany . In 1922 he returned to the KPD and became secretary for them in the northeast of Berlin and a member of the Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg district council . In 1931 he was political director of the KPD sub-district of Neukölln.

At the end of 1932 he was appointed political head of the Munich district by the Central Committee of the KPD. In May 1933 he was appointed political leader of the Bremen district by the KPD, which was already fighting underground . In 1934 he emigrated to France . Because of his involvement in the resistance against National Socialism , he was sentenced to death in absentia in the Richardstrassen Trial in 1936.

From November 1936 to February 1939 he fought in the International Brigades against the fascists in Spain . He was first appointed as political commissar in Albacete and was then technical director of a party school.

In 1939 he managed to escape to Norway and after the occupation of this country by the Wehrmacht in 1940 he went on to Sweden , where he was interned by the German government. In Norway he met Hanna Sandtner , who became his partner. They returned to Germany together in March 1946.

Jahnke became a functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg . He later became head of personnel at the “ Berliner Verlag ”. After a political conflict with Rudolf Herrnstadt , the editor-in-chief of the Berliner Zeitung published by Berliner Verlag , Jahnke left the publisher and started working for the People's Police . There he was head of the back office and deputy head of inspection in the People's Police District Office in Prenzlauer Berg and then head of the press office. In 1951, like many other “Western emigrants”, he was dismissed from all political offices and demoted to the position of plant manager of VEB Berliner Elevator Construction. He died under mysterious circumstances on October 27, 1951 in the police hospital.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.marx.org/archive/cliff/works/1993/trotsky4/06-germany.html
  2. ↑ Hartmut Mehringer: The parties KPD, SPD, BVP in persecution and resistance p. 91
  3. ^ Obituary in Neues Deutschland from October 30, 1951
  4. ^ Uwe Heilemann: Norge med Willy. Through Norway in the footsteps of Willy Brandt , 2003, p. 23.
  5. ↑ Michael F. Scholz: Scandinavian experiences ... S. 57ff

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personal data
SURNAME Jahnke, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasewalk
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1951
Place of death Berlin