Wolfgang Salus

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Wolfgang Václav Salus (born June 24, 1909 in Prague , † March 5, 1953 in Munich ) was a Czech-German communist .

Career

Hugo Salus' son, who was friends with Franz Baermann Steiner , joined the League of Young Communists in 1924, and in 1927 he visited Moscow as a delegate of the communist youth. There he came into contact with the Left Opposition . From 1929 to 1933 he worked as Trotsky's secretary on the Turkish island of Prinkipo and then as chairman of the Trotskyist group in Prague . After the Stalinists came to power, he left Czechoslovakia in 1948 and took part in the development of the German section of the Fourth International in Munich . In 1951 he was involved in founding the Independent Workers' Party of Germany . On February 13, 1953, he was poisoned in Munich by a Stasi and KGB agent with a slow-acting poison, of which he did not die until the night of March 4 to 5, 1953, so that pneumonia was originally assumed to be the cause of death . It was not until 1992, through research by the journalist Natalija Geworkjan, that the true circumstances of his death became known.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfons Fleischli: Franz Baermann Steiner. Life and work . Hochdorf, Freiburg im Üechtland 1970, p. 11 [1]
  2. ^ A b Robert Jackson Alexander: International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A documented analysis of the movement . Duke University Press, Durham 1991, p. 234 [2]
  3. ↑ Archives for the History of Resistance and Labor , Issue 18, Germinal, 2008, p. 702 [3]
  4. ^ A b Hermann Weber : The SED and Titoism (with a picture by Werner Safe alias Wolfgang Salus), bpb.de
  5. ↑ Hermann Bubke: The use of the Stasi and KGB spy Otto Friday in Munich postwar . Publishing house Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2004, p. 55 [4]
  6. ↑ Hermann Weber, Gerda Weber: Life according to the "left principle": memories from five decades , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2006, p. 217 [5]
  7. ↑ Boris Volodarsky: The KGB's Poison Factory. From Lenin to Litvinenko . Frontline Books, Havertown 2013, p. 36 [6]
  8. ↑ Natalija Geworkjan: The KGB is alive. Facts, people and fates from the history of the Soviet secret service . Edition q, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-86124-141-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Salus, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salus, Wolfgang Václav; Krieger, W. (pseudonym); Sure, Werner (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-German communist who was involved in the Communist Youth International
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1953
Place of death Munich