Theodor Beutling

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Theodor Franz Friedrich Beutling (born January 22, 1898 in Odessa , † 1942 in Schelesnodoroschny , Soviet Union ) was a German politician (KPD).

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Beutling attended elementary school . He then worked as a metal worker. In the 1920s he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). From 1926 to 1928 he studied at the International Lenin School in Moscow . He then worked initially as political director in Berlin-Neukölln , later as secretary for trade union issues in the district leadership of the KPD in Berlin-Brandenburg. From 1928 onwards, Beutling belonged to the Reichstag as a member of his party for constituency 3 ( Potsdam II) , but left the parliament of the Weimar Republic in 1930 .

Because of his wavering attitude in the Wittorf affair , Beutling came under pressure in the KPD and gradually lost his important functions. After having worked as an employee in the Soviet trade agency in Berlin until 1933, he emigrated to Moscow. There he was initially active in the Red Trade Union International (RGI) , and from 1934 as a lecturer at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West (KUNMS) , where he was head of the German section.

In January 1938, Beutling was arrested during the German operation of the NKVD . He was thus a victim of the first of the so-called "national operations" during the Great Terror . Under torture, he confessed to the constructed accusation as head of the German section of the KUNMS to have made the German section the "hub" of a conspiracy of the anti-communist bloc - and a center of the fictitious organization of a " Hitler Youth in the USSR". He later retracted his confession. After that he lived in Soviet captivity for at least three years, asked at least twice in vain for his release from prison and permission to return to Germany (“I want to go back to my German homeland, which I only learned to appreciate in prison here in the Soviet Union . ”), Before finally disappearing from May 1941 on.

According to official information from the Soviet Union, Beutling "died" in 1942 in Schelesnodoroschny.

At the request of his son Horst, who was able to return to Germany in April 1946, Theodor Beutling was posthumously rehabilitated on November 19, 1956 by the Central Party Control Commission (ZPKK) of the SED .

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  1. ^ Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst: German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2004, p. 94.
  2. ↑ Eckhard Jesse : Until the destruction . In: The time . 35/1998, p. 32.
  3. ^ Online edition of the Biographical Handbook of the German Communists
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SURNAME Beutling, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beutling, Theodor Franz Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH 1942
Place of death Zheleznodorozhny