Josef Frank (politician)

Josef Frank (* February 15, 1909 in Plumau, Moravia, † December 3, 1952 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak communist and trade unionist.

Life

Frank joined in 1926 the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( CPC-S ) to. In the 1930s he was General Secretary of the Federation of Private Employees ( Federace soukromých zaměstnanců ). In 1939 he was arrested by the Gestapo and taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was detained until 1945. After his liberation, he became in 1945 a member of the Central Committee and the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. In 1948 he was elected Deputy General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and the deputies of the National Assembly. In 1951 he was arrested, tried and expelled from the party. In the show trial of Rudolf Slansky to 1952, he was sentenced to death for alleged collaboration with the SS in Buchenwald concentration camp. Frank was executed on December 3, 1952 in Prague.

1963 Frank was rehabilitated by the party and state. In 1968 it was posthumously awarded to him by the Czechoslovak President Ludvik Svoboda of the title " Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic ".