Paul Schuster (politician)

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Paul Schuster (* 1894 in Tunzenhausen ; † after 1958) was a German former political prisoner in the Bad Sulza and Buchenwald concentration camps , from 1958 leader of visitor groups in the National Buchenwald memorial (NMG) and city ​​councilor for housing in Weimar .

Life

Schuster acted illegally against the Nazi regime , was arrested in April 1934 and interned in the Bad Sulza concentration camp until September. He was then sentenced by a court to four years in prison for high treason and then transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp as a political prisoner with prisoner number 2,223.

After the liberation from Nazi rule , he led groups of visitors through the newly founded NMG on a voluntary basis from 1958 and served as the city council for housing construction in Weimar.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Koch, Udo Wohlfeld: The German beech forest committee. The period from 1945 to 1958 . Weimar 2010, ISBN 3-935275-14-5 , p. 190.
personal data
SURNAME Schuster, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political concentration camp prisoner, resistance fighter against the Nazi regime and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunzenhausen
DATE OF DEATH after 1958