Bernhard Reichenbach

Bernhard Reichenbach ( born December 12, 1888 in Berlin, † 19 February 1975 in London) was a communist politician and journalist.

Life

Born and raised in Hamburg, he worked as an actor Reichenbach, and then from 1912 to 1914 to study literature, art history and sociology in Berlin; Furthermore, he was active at this time in the youth movement and the board of the Free Students and served as Associate Editor of The Move. 1915-1917 soldier, he then worked until 1919 in the press office of the Foreign Office.

1917 Reichenbach was a founding member of the USPD and called 1920, without being previously been a member of the Communist Party, the Communist Workers Party of Germany ( CAPD ) with environment, whose organ Communist Arbeiter-Zeitung, he headed at times. In 1921 he represented the KAP on the Executive Committee of the Communist International ( ECCI ) and at the Third Comintern Congress in the same year, in Moscow; There he also negotiated with Lenin on the start of CAPD as a full member. 1922 excluded together with Karl Schroeder as part of the Essenes direction from the KAP, Reichenbach joined - without abandoning his previous political conviction - in 1925 in the SPD and worked as an event speaker at the Young Socialists and the SAJ. Professionally, he worked as an officer at a chemical plant in Krefeld.

1930/31 Reichenbach played a central role in the founding process of the council communist Red fighter, by creating the contacts SAJ Left Opposition groups to circle around Karl Schroeder, Alexander Schwab and Arthur Goldstein in Berlin. From 1931 until his expulsion in August 1932, he worked entristisch within the SAPD and could also attract members of the Red fighters there. 1932/33, he was responsible for leading the transition of the organization work on conditions of illegality.

After getting banned from working as a journalist in 1934 and two suffered raids by the Gestapo, Reichenbach 1935 emigrated via the Netherlands to the UK, where he settled in London. Here he joined the Labour Party and worked with exiled Social Democrats. 1940-1941 interned Reichenbach worked as an editor for the issued by the Foreign Office POW newspaper The Week post.

After the war, Reichenbach was a London correspondent, inter alia, worked for the South German Radio and the Westfälische Rundschau. In 1958 he took the German Federal Cross of Merit 1st class.

Works

• Planning and freedom. The teachings of the English experiment. Frankfurt / Main 1954
• England at the crossroads of its history. Dortmund 1961