Richard Daniel (politician)

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Richard Daniel (born December 8, 1891 in Stuttgart , † June 18, 1942 in Wolosniza, Soviet Union ) was a German architect and politician of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). During the November Revolution of 1918 he was chairman of the soldiers' council and in 1919 co-founder of the KPD in Ulm . In 1938 he fell victim to the Stalinist purges during the Great Terror in the Soviet Union and died in the Gulag in 1942 . In 1957 he was posthumously rehabilitated .

Life

Daniel, the son of a master carpenter learned after the elementary school the profession of Bautechnikers , where he worked until 1914 in Stuttgart. In 1907 Daniel was a co-founder of the social democratic youth workers in Stuttgart. From 1914 to 1918 he fought as a simple soldier in the First World War . During the November Revolution he became chairman of the soldiers' council of the 13th Pioneer Battalion in Ulm at the end of 1918.

In 1919 he and others founded a local group of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in Ulm. In the same year he married Berta Dick , who also held positions in the KPD. In 1923 Daniel was arrested in Ulm and imprisoned for three months for “preparations for a military uprising”. Then the Daniel couple returned to Stuttgart. In June 1924 Daniel was arrested again. He was able to escape from the Stuttgart state prison and then stayed illegally in Leipzig , where he worked undercover for the Red Aid of Germany (RHD).

At the beginning of 1926 Daniel went to Elgersburg in Thuringia , a stronghold of the KPD, and was active in the local council. In the house of the municipal council he had communist symbols installed and a " Lenin room " set up. In Thuringia, Daniel was involved in the violent clashes between the KPD and the KPD opposition and represented an ultra-left position that supported the course of the party leadership around Ernst Thälmann .

In March 1927, Daniel was arrested in Elgersburg and on 25 July 1927 by the Supreme Court to two and a half years imprisonment convicted, he in the Hohenasperg dismounted. He was released through an amnesty in 1928. Daniel settled in Berlin and worked as an architect. In 1930/31 he worked for the Soviet trade agency. At the end of 1931 Daniel moved to the Soviet Union and became a civil engineer, later an architect, in Moscow and Khabarovsk .

On February 22, 1938, Daniel and his wife were arrested by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) as part of the so-called " German Operation " . Shortly thereafter, Daniel was sentenced to eight years in a labor camp and worked as a prisoner in the construction of the Arkhangelsk - Leningrad railway and at Kotlas . On June 18, 1942 Daniel died in a camp in Volosnitsa in Kirov Oblast under unexplained circumstances.

On January 28, 1957, he was fully rehabilitated by the Moscow Military District Military Tribunal.

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  1. ↑ Wladislaw Hedeler, Inge Münz-Koenen (ed.), I came to your country as a guest ...: German opponents of Hitler as victims of Stalin terror. Family fates 1933 - 1956 , Lukas Verlag, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Daniel, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and politician (KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1942
Place of death Volosnitsa, Soviet Union