Alexander Abusch

Alexander Abusch ( born February 14, 1902 in Krakow, † January 27, 1982 in East Berlin) was a journalist, writer and politician in the GDR.

Training

The son of a coachman attended elementary school and business training school in Nuremberg. 1916 to 1919 he completed a commercial apprenticeship.

Political career

In 1916 he became a member of the Free Socialist Youth ( FSJ ). 1918 joined Abusch into the KPD. 1918 to 1923 he participated in the revolutionary struggles in Central Germany and in 1920 and 1922, accused of high treason. Since 1921 he was editor of various Communist newspapers. From 1930 to 1932 he was editor in chief of the Red Banner.

Exile

After the takeover of the NSDAP, Abusch fled to France. His first place of exile was Paris, where he was from 1934 as chief editor of the magazines operated Our Time, The counter-attack and from 1935 to 1939 the Red Flag. In addition, he was co-editor of the Brown book on Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror. In Lutetia Circle ( 1935-1936 ), he was involved in the trial a " popular front" to provide against the Hitler dictatorship. After entry of the German troops in France, he was interned ( 1939/1940 ). Abusch could escape from the camp and fought in the French Resistance in the south of France. In 1941 he emigrated to Mexico, where he was one of the founders of the Free German movement Latin America and the National Committee for a Free Germany in Mexico next to Paul Merker, there he was, until 1946, chief editor of the monthly magazine Free Germany.

Return

In 1946, Abusch returned to Germany and joined the SED. In 1946, he was Head of Department at Cultural Association of the GDR and in 1948 member of the German Economic Commission ( TWC ), the practical first German central government in the Soviet occupation zone. 1948 to 1950 he was a member of the party executive he SED. In 1949 he became Vice- President of the Cultural Association and a full-time employee of the Central Committee of the SED. In August 1950, he was released temporarily from all functions associated with the flag affair.

Proven since 1953 was Abusch as a secret informant (GI Ernst) with the Ministry of State Security of the GDR working. 1956 belonged Abusch in the German Academy of Arts on a task force for the further development of the East German literary journal Sinn und Form ( DAdK ). 1954 Abusch Deputy Minister of Culture, 1956 Secretary of State. On 1 February 1957 he was co-opted as a member of the Central Committee of the SED. From December 1958 to February 1961, he headed the Ministry of Culture of the German Democratic Republic from 1961 to 1971 he served as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Culture and Education. Then in October 1972, was Vice President from 1975 or honorary president of the Cultural Association of the GDR. Already 1949/50, he was a member of the Provisional People's Chamber, in November 1958, he was again deputy and was for many years chairman of the KB Group.

After his death, his urn at the memorial of the Socialists was buried at the Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin- Lichtenberg.

Alexander Abusch published under the pseudonym Ernst Reinhardt.

Awards

Writings

  • The fight against the factories. A story, Berlin 1926
  • Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror, ( co-editor ), Paris 1933
  • The aberration of a nation. A contribution to the understanding of German history, Mexico 1945
  • Stalin and the vital questions of the German Nation, Berlin 1949
  • Who are you, masters of culture? The role of cultural workers in the struggle for peace, Berlin 1950
  • Literature and reality. Contributions to a new history of German literature, Berlin 1952
  • Johannes R. Becher. Poet of the nation and of peace, Berlin 1953
  • Learn creatively from the science and art of the Soviet Union, Berlin 1953
  • Schiller - Size and tragedy of a German genius, Berlin 1955
  • The young artist in our time, Berlin 1956
  • In the ideological struggle for a socialist culture, Berin 1957
  • Schiller of people and the socialist humanism, Berlin 1960
  • Our epoch requires humanists fact, Berlin 1961
  • Cultural problems of socialist humanism. Contributions to the German cultural policy. 1946-1961, Berlin 1962
  • Johann Gottlieb Fichte and the future of the nation, Berlin 1962
  • The national task of socialist culture in the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1963
  • Shakespeare. Realist and humanist, Genius of world literature, Berlin 1964
  • Twenty years Cultural Association in the fight for the spiritual rebirth of the German nation, Berlin 1965
  • Humanism and realism in literature. Essays, Leipzig 1966
  • The tasks of the German League of Culture in the developed social system of socialism, Berlin 1968
  • Past and Present of socialist humanism, Berlin 1971
  • The code name. Memoirs, Berlin 1981
  • The world Johannes R. Becher. Works from the years 1926-1980, Berlin 1981
  • Views on some classics, Berlin 1982
  • With open sights. Memoirs, Berlin 1986
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