Robert Hauschild

Robert Hauschild (born April 28, 1900 in Gera ; † unknown) was a German publicist . During the Weimar Republic he was considered a military expert for the Communist Party of Germany and fell victim to the Stalinist purges in Moscow in 1936/37 .

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Hauschild was already involved in the workers' youth movement as a teenager . In 1916 he took part in the illegal Easter Conference of Youth Against the War, at which Karl Liebknecht and Otto Rühle spoke to 60 left-wing representatives of the social democratic youth workers. After graduating from high school , he became a journalist . In 1919 he joined the KPD. During the 1920s he worked partly under the pseudonym Rudolf or Robert Haus as an editor of various newspapers and magazines of the party, including from 1921 to 1924 for the Neue Zeitung ( Jena ) and 1926/27 for the fighter in Chemnitz . He was considered an expert on military issues and worked in the AM apparatus ("KPD anti- military apparatus"). He also wrote philosophical treatises on the relationship between Karl Marx and Ludwig Feuerbach and edited writings by Friedrich Engels .

In 1932 Hauschild settled with his wife Hilde (* 1904), b. Löwenstein (called: Hilde Löwen ) to the Soviet Union . Under the pseudonym Rudolf Haus he worked as an editor for the Deutsche Zentral-Zeitung and the magazine Gegen-attack in Moscow. On August 31, 1936, he was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to five years in a camp in May 1937 as a “ Brandler follower”, “Compromiser” and “ Trotskyist element”. He was probably shot in the gulag . The exact date of his death is not known. Hilde Löwen, who is also missing in the Gulag, was also charged with him.

Publications

• Rudolf Haus (Ed.): Marxist series of publications. A. Schultz, Berlin.
• Friedrich Engels and Rudolf Haus: The Franco-German War 1870/71. War history writings. 1st edition. Verl. For literature and politics, Vienna 1931.
• Rudolf Haus and Georgij V. Plechanov: Hegel or Marx? Marxism as heir and conqueror of Hegelian philosophy with special consideration of the materialistic dialectic. With an appendix: On the 60th anniversary of the death of GWF Hegel / G. Plechanow. A. Schultz, Berlin 1931.

literature

• Hauschild, Robert . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

• Memorandum of the cadre department on "Trotskyists and other hostile elements among the emigrants of the German Communist Party" (in English)