Robert Leibbrand
Robert Leibbrand (born May 1, 1901 in Stuttgart , † January 25, 1963 in East Berlin ) was a German politician of the KPD .
Leibbrand was a ZK member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany in the Weimar Republic . After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he was in the concentration camp Natzweiler-Struthof and in the Buchenwald concentration camp detained.
After 1945 Leibbrand was state chairman of the KPD in Württemberg-Baden and was replaced by the party leadership in February 1951 because he was accused of not having adequately represented the Soviet line in Germany policy in the election campaign. He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 until January 26, 1950. From 1946 to January 21, 1950 he was a member of the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden .
His second wife Gertrud Strohbach , with whom he later moved to the GDR , was also a member of the Bundestag for a short time (1951–1953) . In the GDR, Robert Leibbrand worked as a deputy head of department in the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED . In 1957 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and in 1961 the Order of Labor Banner .
Publications
- Beech forest. A factual report on the history of the German resistance movement (= documents of the evil. Vol. 2). Europa-Verlag, Stuttgart.
literature
- Leibbrand, Robert . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany , October 7, 1957
- ^ New Germany, May 30, 1961
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leibbrand, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1963 |
| Place of death | Berlin |