Stefan Szende

Stefan Szende (born April 10, 1901 in Szombathely ; † 1985 ), also István Szende , was a Hungarian-Swedish political scientist , socialist politician, journalist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Stefan Szende began studying political science and philosophy at the universities of Budapest and Vienna in 1919 and joined the Hungarian Communist Party in the same year . 1925 doctorate he in Budapest for Dr. rer. pole. , was arrested because of his political activities, sentenced to eight years in prison and expatriated, whereupon he emigrated to Vienna in 1928, where he received an additional doctorate to become a Dr. Phil dropped. In the same year he went to Berlin, where he joined the newly founded KPO and joined the SAPD in 1932 with its minority wing around Jacob Walcher , Paul Frölich and August Enderle . Willy Brandt wrote of Stefan Szende that he had "played a leading role in our Berlin group".

After the NSDAP came to power, he belonged to the illegally working Berlin district leadership of the SAPD and, together with Walter Fabian, edited the party organ Banner of Revolutionary Marxism , but was arrested by the Gestapo in November 1933 , temporarily detained in Oranienburg concentration camp and later in prison for two years sentenced. After serving his sentence at the end of 1935, Szende was expelled and went first to Prague, then to Stockholm in 1937 , where he was active in the management of the SAPD structures and represented them in the International Group of Democratic Socialists . He worked closely with Willy Brandt, August Enderle and Arno Behrisch and, like them, approached the SPD in 1944/45 , which he then also joined. In 1944 he published Den siste juden från Poland, one of the first books on the extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany, in Swedish . After 1945 Szende did not want to return to Germany or Hungary for family and political reasons and worked in Sweden as a journalist, writer and in educational work, for example as editor-in-chief and owner of the news agency Agence Européene de Presse (AEP).

Fonts

On the post-war policy of the German socialists. Stockholm 1944. (Co-author, with Willy Brandt, August Enderle, Irmgard Enderle and Ernst Behm)
The last Jew from Poland. Zurich and New York 1945.
European revolution. Zurich and New York 1945
Erich Mühsam on the 40th anniversary of his death. Berlin 1974.
Between Violence and Tolerance: Testimonies and Reflections of a Socialist. Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-434-00252-9 (with a foreword by Willy Brandt)

Footnotes

↑ Willy Brandt: Left and Free. My way 1930 - 1950 . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-455-50267-1 , p. 102.

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personal data
SURNAME	Szende, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Szende, István
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian-Swedish political scientist, socialist politician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Szombathely
DATE OF DEATH	1985

[1] Willy Brandt: Left and Free. My way 1930 - 1950 . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-455-50267-1 , p. 102.