Werner Rosenberg (officer)

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Werner Rosenberg was among other things chairman of the editorial board for the yearbooks "The World - Data, Facts, Information" (1964–1969)

Werner Rosenberg (born January 25, 1911 , German Reich ; † December 1990 or 1992) was a German historian and survivor of the Holocaust .

Rosenberg grew up in a Jewish orphanage and became a member of the Communist Party of Germany in 1931 . For his illegal work against the Nazi regime and because of his Jewish descent, he was first sent to prison in 1933 and 1936, then to a concentration camp in 1939 and spent the years up to his liberation in 1945 in Sachsenhausen (1939–1942 and 1944–1945) or . Monowitz Buna (1942-1944); in the end he is said to have weighed only 38 kg.

After the World War Rosenberg did his doctorate in the GDR and worked as a political officer in the NVA , made it to the position of colonel and became chairman of the party control commission of an association of the NVA. He acted as the editor of several propandistic treatises (but also of the yearbooks Die Welt - Daten, Facts, Informations , 1964–1969 published by Dietz-Verlag ) and was repeatedly honored for this by the SED regime.

Rosenberg was one of three experts of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , the Rudolf Bahro's book The alternative rated (1977) as "anti-Marxist".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Neues Deutschland from January 25, 1971, page 2: Comrades Werner Rosenberg
  2. ↑ a b c Neues Deutschland from January 25, 1986, page 2: Central Committee of the SED congratulates
  3. ↑ Lexicon Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi Regime 1933-1945 , Volume 6, Name Register
  4. ↑ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : Resistance in Prenzlauer Berg and Weissensee , page 109. In: Edition 12 of series of publications on the resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 , German Resistance Memorial Center , Berlin 2000
  5. ↑ a b Kurt Schliwski: My Life , page 16. VVN-BdA Landesvereinigung MV, Schwerin 2014
  6. ↑ Heike Amos: The SED's policy of expellees 1949 to 1990 , page 162. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2009
  7. ↑ a b c Martin Sabrow , Norbert Frei : The birth of the contemporary witness after 1945 , page 210f. Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2012
  8. ↑ a b c VVN-BdA , district association Berlin-Pankow: Commemoration at the water tower
  9. ↑ scharf-links.de: resistance in Auschwitz (Part VII)
  10. ^ Guntolf Herzberg, Kurt Seifert: Rudolf Bahro - Faith in the Changeable - a biography , page 240. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2002
personal data
SURNAME Rosenberg, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political officer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1911
DATE OF DEATH 1990