Dr. Rudolf Paul (30 July 1893 in Gera [1] - 28 February 1978) was a German politician.
He studied law in Berlin and Leipzig and practiced as a lawyer in Gera. [2] He was a member of the German Democratic Party until its dissolution in 1933. Under the Nazi Regime, he was banned from his profession.
Paul was appointed as mayor of Gera on May 7, 1945 by the American city commander. After the American retreat from Thuringia, the Soviet military administration appointed him as first Minister-President of the state on July 16, 1945. He became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1946. On September 1, 1947, he fled into the American occupation zone.
Paul features in the fourth part of the novel Berlin by the anti-Nazi German writer Theodor Plievier.
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Fritz Eikemeier was the Chief of Police in East Berlin between 1953 and 1964.
Hermann Weber was a German historian and political scientist. He has been described as "the man who knew everything about the German Democratic Republic".
Rudolf Bahmann was an East German politician. Between 1973 and 1977 he served as chairman of the council in the Gera administrative district.
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People of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organisation is a list of participants, associates and helpers of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organization, which was one of the largest anti-Nazi resistance organisations that came into existence during World War II in Germany. It was formed in Berlin and had contacts to many other regions that hosted industrial manufacturing. It is therefore also referred to in the literature as the operational leadership of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). However, it was not only communists among the groups of the Saefkov Jacob Bästlein organisation. The 506 known persons included about 200 before 1933 to the KPD, 22 to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) or to the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAP) and around 200 were non-party; one in four was a woman. 160 men and women were unionised before 1933, more than 60 of them in the German Metal Workers' Union (DMV). The local or region is indicated for the people who worked outside Berlin and Brandenburg.
Herbert Ziegenhahn was a German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
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