Paul Tastesen

Paul Tastesen (born March 5, 1899 in Hamburg ; † October 10, 1974 there ) was a German politician of the KPD and member of the Hamburg citizenship .

Life

Paul Tastesen was a soldier in the First World War from 1917 to 1919 . After the war he worked as a marble grinder until 1924 and as a belt maker in 1925/26.

Immediately after the war he became a member of the USPD in 1919 and switched to the KPD in late 1920. He was in custody for seven months in 1927. From the middle of 1927 he was employed as the full-time secretary of the RFB . In the same year he moved into the Hamburg parliament as a member of parliament and held his mandate there until 1931. From 1930 he also worked in the anti-militarist apparatus (cover name for the KPD's intelligence service). There he also attended a course at the M school of the Communist International under the code name Friedrich .

During the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, as part of the first political arrests, he was taken to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp in Hamburg for some time . In 1936 he testified as a witness in the trial of Etkar André and was arrested again immediately after the trial. He was convicted by the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in 1938 and spent a long time in a concentration camp (proceedings against Anton Saefkow and other defendants).

Immediately after the end of the Second World War , Tastesen became a member of the KPD again and was part of its Hamburg leadership. He was one of the proponents of the formation of a common socialist party in Hamburg. In 1946 he was a member of the Appointed Hamburg Citizenship . He has been a member and functionary since the DKP was founded in 1968. In addition, he was co-founder and chairman of the board of trustees of the »Ernst-Thälmann-Gedenkstätte« in Hamburg in the sixties.

literature

• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online [accessed January 5, 2013]).