Walter Plitt

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Walter Plitt (born November 1, 1905 in Gnadenfrei , Silesia ; † November 9, 1956 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD / KPD / SED ), journalist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Plitt, the son of an estate gardener, attended elementary school and secondary school in Reichenbach . From 1921 to 1923 he trained as a bank clerk in Nimptsch , then he worked in Reichenbach from 1923 to 1925. Plitt joined the Wandervogel movement in his youth . In 1926 he made up his Abitur in Berlin. From 1925 to 1928 he studied economics and business administration at the University of Economics in Berlin.

In 1925/26 he was a member of the Socialist Student Union, from 1926 to 1929 he was a member of the SPD and the Revolutionary Social Democratic Students and editor of their newspaper of the same name. From 1928 Plitt worked as a freelance journalist and writer. In 1929 he joined the KPD and became a member of the Reich leadership of the Red Students as well as there also editor of the body of the same name. He was also a member of the press commission of the KPD district leadership in Berlin. From 1931 to 1934 he worked as a financial clerk at the Soviet trade agency in Berlin.

After the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists , Plitt worked illegally for the KPD subdistrict lines in Berlin-Tempelhof and- Schöneberg (alias: Herrmann ). From 1933 he worked with the Soviet intelligence service GRU . In 1935/1936 he emigrated to Austria and Czechoslovakia . From 1937 he stayed in France . From July 1937 to autumn 1938 he was a member of the International Brigades in Spain. In 1938 he returned to Paris . In 1939/1940 he was interned in the Gurs and Argelès-sur-Mer camps.

In April 1941 he managed to escape. He initially operated illegally in Montauban before fling to Switzerland in June 1941 . He stayed illegally in Basel until the spring of 1945 . There he was active in the Free Germany Movement, worked for various newspapers such as Der Deutsche and the Süddeutsche Volksstimme , and from 1942 to 1945 for the KPD section leadership south.

In July 1945 he returned to Germany and in 1946 became a member of the SED. From August 1945 he was the economic editor of the Deutsche Volkszeitung , the central organ of the KPD in the Soviet Zone , from 1946 economic and agricultural editor of the SED central organ New Germany . From 1946 to 1955 he was editor-in-chief of the VdgB organ, Der Freie Bauer . In 1949 he was co-founder and editor-in-chief of the newspapers Deutsche Gärtner-Post and Der Kleingärtner . In 1951 he completed a distance learning course at the party college. 1955/56 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Der Genossenschaftsbauer .

Plitt was an active member of the Association of the German Press . Plitt died during a spa stay at the age of 51.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Plitt passed away . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 14, 1956, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Splitt, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD / SED) and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Merciless
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1956
Place of death Berlin