Rudolf Bernstein

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Rudolf Bernstein (born February 29, 1896 in Berlin , † October 6, 1977 in East Berlin) was a German Comintern and film functionary.

Life

Bernstein attended the Jewish boys' school in Berlin, from 1906 to 1912 the grammar school and then a commercial school in connection with a commercial education. In 1915 he was called up for military service, from which he successfully deserted in October 1918 in order to fraternize with the revolutionary soldiers of Russia.

In early 1919 he took part in the Spartacus uprising and became a member of the USPD , with the majority of which he joined the KPD in 1920 .

He was married to Martha Bernstein. His daughter Hanna Podymachina was born in 1924.

From 1925 he was a full-time functionary of the KPD. He headed various party operations and before 1933 worked in the KPD headquarters in the Karl-Liebknecht-Haus as secretary of the business department. He was also a KPD district councilor in Berlin.

After the Reichstag fire in 1933, he was arrested and imprisoned without charge in the Alexanderplatz police prison and then in Spandau , later in the Sonnenburg concentration camp . From there he was brought before the Dimitrov trial as a witness . He and his family managed to escape to the Soviet Union in 1934 , where he worked for the Comintern .

In 1943 he became captain of the Red Army and in 1945 editor of the “Österreichische Zeitung” in Vienna. In 1947 he returned to Berlin and until 1950 was department head for party operations at the SED Central Committee .

In 1950 he was appointed German co-director of the Progress Film Distribution . On October 1, 1955, he became the first director of the GDR State Film Archive and remained so until April 1958.

During his career, Bernstein received a number of medals and state awards from the GDR, including the gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit (1976) and the NVA's gold medal of merit (1970).

He was buried in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

  • Torture hell Sonnenburg. Factual and eyewitness report from a former prisoner in protection. Publishing house of the International Red Aid Zurich / Paris 1934

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Broadcast comrades-in-arms - companions, the cities - the shots from Dannenberg from November 2, 1967 (PDF; 65 kB)
  2. ↑ DRAFD-Information 12/2002, p.14 (PDF; 1.0 MB) Interview with Hanna Podymachina
  3. ↑ library.fes.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / library.fes.de  
  4. ↑ riot of naked on one day
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland , May 1, 1976, p. 5
  6. ^ Johannes Tuchel : GoogleBooks The Forgotten Resistance; Page 255
  7. ↑ triller-online.de
personal data
SURNAME Bernstein, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party functionary (USPD, KPD, SED), Comintern and film functionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1977
Place of death East Berlin