Samuel Glesel

Passport photo Samuel Glesel, August 1930

Samuel Glesel (* June 27 ^{. Jul} / 10. July  1910 ^greg. In Chrzanów , Austria-Hungary , † 5. November 1937 in Leningrad ) was a journalist and writer.

Glesel was a member of the KPD and wrote for the Red Flag , Die Welt am Abend and the Arbeiterstimme . In 1932 he emigrated to the Soviet Union with his wife Elisabeth Wellnitz , to Engels . In 1934 his German citizenship was revoked and in 1935 he took on the Soviet one. Under the pseudonym Sally Gles he published a drama, a play and two volumes of stories in the Kiev State Publishing House of the National Minorities of the USSR. In 1936 he was expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union and the Party during the Stalin Purges , which meant a professional ban. On September 4, 1937 he was during the so-called German operation arrested, sentenced to death on October 29 and November 5 shot .

Elisabeth Wellnitz was exiled to Kazakhstan after the start of the war , and in 1955 she returned to Germany - the GDR . A year later she was followed by her son Alexander (* 1935). In 1961 he married Inge Hähnel, the daughter of Walter Hähnel (1905–1979).

Works

• Forbidden , Drama, Kharkov 1933, published in the magazine Der Sturmstufe
• Murder in the Hohenstein camp. Reports from the Third Reich , co-author, Moscow 1933
• Germany awakes , Erz., Red. Karl Weidner , Engels 1935
• Germany yesterday and today , Erz., Kiev 1935
• Forbidden , May drama in three acts, Kiev-Kharkov 1935
• Struggle. German, revolutionary poets against fascism . Collection for middle-aged children, drawings by Heinrich Vogeler , co-author, Charkow 1935

literature

• Elfriede Brüning : Well, I'm still alive. German communists in Soviet camps . Berlin: Verlag am Park 2013. ISBN 978-3-89793-291-3
• Wladislaw Hedeler , Inge Münz-Koenen (ed.): "I came to your country as a guest ...". German opponents of Hitler as victims of the Stalin terror. Family fates 1933–1956 . Berlin: Lukas Verlag 2013. ISBN 978-3-86732-177-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Samuel Glesel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Глезель (Глес) Самуил Маркович (Glesel Samuel). In: Виртуальный музей Гулага (Gulag Museum). (Russian). 
• Samuel Glesel. In: Thuringian Literature Council. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 . 
• Remembering Sally Glesel from Gotha on the occasion of her 105th birthday. Press release from the City of Gotha, July 10, 2015.