Gerhard Reinhardt

Gerhard Reinhardt ( born May 4, 1916 in Werdau, District of Zwickau; † August 22, 1989 ) was a German politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism.

Life

Reinhardt was born into a textile worker's family and learned the trade of machinist himself, then he went on wanderings through various European countries (including France, Switzerland and Austria ). In 1930 he joined the KJVD.

After the " seizure of power" by the National Socialists in 1933, Reinhardt was active in the resistance. Reinhardt was arrested in 1936 and sentenced to imprisonment, which he spent in Waldheim. Between 1939 and 1942 he worked as a machinist in Werdau before he was drafted into the 1942 penal battalion 999. In August 1943 he transferred to the Greek partisans. He was among the founding members of the Anti-Fascist Committee for a Free Germany in Greece and then his agent for the XIII. ELAS Division. He was a captain in the Greek People's Liberation Army, ELAS before in Yugoslavia officer of the Second Battalion in the Austrian Freedom III. Yugoslav army.

In the summer of 1945 he returned to Germany and in 1946 a member of the SED. He was first employee in Agriculture and Forestry Ministry and Interior Ministry before he was from 1961 to 1963 secretary of the Central Committee on youth initiation and later secretary of the Central Committee of the leadership of the Anti-Fascist resistance fighters.