Reinhold Hentschke

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Reinhold Hentschke (born May 25, 1899 in Neundorf ; † December 6, 1984 ) was a German politician ( SED ). From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament .

Life

Hentschke learned the profession of roofer. He joined the socialist youth organization in 1913, became a member of the Spartakusbund in 1918 and of the KPD in January 1919 . He was political leader of the KPD local group Oberseifersdorf and a member of the sub-district leadership Zittau .

After Hitler came to power , he did illegal resistance work. In 1934 he emigrated to the Soviet Union with his son Herbert Hentschke . From 1934 to 1936 he attended the International Lenin School in Moscow and then until February 1937 an officer course in Ryazan . In March 1937 he went under the code name “Herbert Wolter” with Heinz Hoffmann via Sweden, Denmark, Holland and France to Spain and took part in the Spanish Civil War on the part of the Republicans . He was assigned to an Andalusian partisan unit that fought in the hinterland of the putschists. In autumn 1937 he became secretary of the party organization of the XI. International Brigade . From January 1939 he worked illegally in France and Holland. He was arrested in 1940, sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1941 and imprisoned in Mauthausen concentration camp until the end of the war .

After his liberation he became a member of the KPD again in 1945 and worked in the Chemnitz party organization from July 1945 to April 1946. From 1946 a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), he was secretary of the SED district leadership in Chemnitz from April 1946 to 1947. At the same time he was a member of the SED state executive committee from April 1946 to August 1952 and belonged to the secretariat of the SED state executive committee from 1947 to 1950. From December 1946 to October 1950 he was a member of the SED parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament (substitute for August Friedel ). In the state parliament he was from January 1950 chairman of the committee for agriculture (successor to Alfred Ihle ). From 1950 to August 1952 he was head of a main department in the Ministry of Agriculture of the State of Saxony. He then held leading positions in the German People's Police (DVP). In 1953 he was temporarily 1st secretary of the Rostock district management of the GST . From 1954 he worked in Berlin in the administration of the DVP and from 1956 in the NVA with the rank of lieutenant colonel . For many years he was general secretary of the German Shooting Association.

Hentschke last lived in Dresden and died at the age of 85.

Awards

literature

  • Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945–1949 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 928.
  • Politics, economy, public life. In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (ed.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933-1945 . tape 1 . Walter de Gruyter, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-11-097028-7 , p. 284 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Hoffmann: Mannheim - Madrid - Moscow: Experiences from three decades , Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1981, p. 319.
  2. ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from December 21, 1984.
personal data
SURNAME Hentschke, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Neundorf
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1984