Robert Hensel

Robert Hensel (born May 18, 1891 in Berlin ; † November 25, 1954 there ) was a German SED functionary. Among other things, he was a member of the party executive committee of the SED, a member of the German People's Council and the district mayor of Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg .

Life

Hensel, the son of a leather dyer, attended elementary school and completed an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk . He later worked in this profession and as a clerk. From 1906 he was a member and functionary of the Berlin workers' youth, in 1907 he joined the SPD. From 1910 he was the forwarder for the social democratic newspaper “Arbeiterjugend”.

In December 1914, Hensel was one of the co-organizers of the first anti-war demonstration in Berlin. Hensel was drafted into the war and fought as a soldier in the First World War . In 1917 he switched to the USPD and was temporarily its Berlin district secretary. Until March 1922 he was editor of the USPD newspaper " Freedom ". In 1922 he returned to the SPD. From 1920 to 1933 he was an assessor at the finance court, from 1922 city youth welfare officer, citizen's deputy and treasurer in the youth hostel association.

After the Nazis "seized power " in 1933, Hensel took part in the resistance . After the war ended in 1945 he became a member of the SPD again and served as its chairman in the Wedding district in 1945/46 . In 1945 he was head of department, department head and district councilor for popular education in the Berlin-Wedding district office. From 1946 Hensel was chairman of the Wedding District Committee of the SED, from April 1946 to March 1949 he was also a member of the SED State Committee Greater Berlin and from September 1947 to March 1949 also a member of its secretariat, responsible for local politics. Between September 1947 and July 1950, Hensel was a member of the SED party executive.

From 1946 to 1948, Hensel was a member of the Berlin-Wedding district council and there was also a district councilor for finance. In 1948/49 he was a member of the people's council. From March 1949 to February 1953, Hensel acted as district mayor of Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. He was then director of the Sparkasse Berlin.

Hensel died 63-year-old a cancer .

literature

• Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 927.
• Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED - history, organization, politics. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , pp. 972f.
• Thomas Friedrich (Ed.): Decisions of the SED 1948. From the stenographic records of the 10th to 15th meeting of the SED party executive . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002328-7 , p. 501.
• Harold Hurwitz (ed.): The Stalinization of the SED: On the loss of freedom and social-democratic identity in the executive boards 1946–1949 . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997, ISBN 978-3-322-85091-1 , p. 468ff.