Karl Wloch

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Karl Wloch 1954

Karl Wloch (born August 4, 1905 in Berlin ; † September 30, 1982 ibid) was a GDR politician and association functionary. He was committed to improving German-Polish relations.

Wloch was a younger brother of Wilhelm Wloch . In 1924 he joined the Communist Party of Germany . After the Second World War he worked as a translator and teacher in POW camps in Poland . There he directed a. a. the re-education of German officers in the sense of a socialist construction in Poland and Germany. In 1949 he became general secretary of the Hellmut von Gerlach Society (today: German-Polish Society of the Federal Republic of Germany ) in East Berlin . From 1954 to 1956, Wloch was head of the Office for Literature and Publishing, responsible for the printing approval process, the central process for censoring literature in the GDR.

During the 1950s, Wloch was, alongside Horst Anspach, one of the most important functionaries who maintained a conspiratorial connection between the Gerlach Society in Düsseldorf and East Berlin. In 1967 Wloch became head of the country commission for Poland in the Society for Cultural Connection with Abroad in East Berlin.

His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

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  1. ↑ Kochanowski, Jerzy: In Polish Captivity. German prisoners of war in Poland 1945 - 1950, Osnabrück 2004, pp. 324–337
  2. ↑ Hübner, Christa: On the work of the German-Polish Society for Peace and Good Neighborhood 1948-1952; in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 27 (1979), pp. 409-422, here p. 413.
  3. ↑ Lotz, Christian: The interpretation of the loss. Political memory controversies in divided Germany about flight, expulsion and the Eastern Territories (1948–1972), Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007, p. 95.
  4. ↑ Lotz, Christian: The interpretation of the loss. Political memory controversies in divided Germany about flight, expulsion and the Eastern Territories (1948–1972), Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007, p. 234.

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SURNAME Wloch, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1982
Place of death Berlin