Communists in the German Resistance - Walter Ulbricht, Heinrich Rau, Bernhard Bastlein, Georg Elser, Franz Jacob, Harry Naujoks, Robert Uhrig (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Walter Ulbricht, Heinrich Rau, Bernhard Bastlein, Georg Elser, Franz Jacob, Harry Naujoks, Robert Uhrig, Harro Schulze-Boysen, Fritz Diez, Charlotte Bischoff, Katharina Jacob, Kurt Schumacher, Dagobert Biermann, Beppo Romer, Liselotte Herrmann, John Sieg, Robert Abshagen, Herbert Michaelis, Albert Hensel, Kurt Held, Hans Coppi, Ilse Stobe, Siegfried Radel, Werner Dissel, Max Reimann, Hilde Coppi, Erich Weinert, Erich Wiesner, Ernst Knaack, Peter Gingold, Ernst Goldenbaum, Gunther Krupkat, Wilhelm Guddorf, Josef Kiefel. Excerpt: Heinrich "Heiner" Rau (2 April 1899 - 23 March 1961) was a German communist politician and East German statesman. In 1918, he participated in the German Revolution and during the Spanish Civil War he was a leader of one of the International Brigades. He played an important role in East Germany in the early years after World War II. Prior to the proclamation of an East German state, he was chairman of the German Economic Commission, the predecessor of the future East German government; afterwards chairman of the National Planning Commission of East Germany and a deputy chairman of the East German Council of Ministers. He led diverse ministries at different times. In East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED), he was a member of the party's CC Politburo. Rau was born in Feuerbach, now a part of Stuttgart, in the German Kingdom of Wurttemberg, as son of a peasant who later became a factory worker. He grew up in the close-by city of Zuffenhausen (now also a part of Stuttgart). After he had finished school in spring 1913, he started working as a press operator at a shoe factory. In November 1913 he switched to the Bosch factory works in Feuerbach. There he completed his training as metal presser and worked, interrupted by war service during 1917/18 and the German Revolution 1918/19, until a...