Leo Bauer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leo Bauer

German politician and journalist

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1912

Place of Birth: Skalat, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 18-Sep-1972

Profession: politician, journalist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Leopold Bauer (born Eliezer Lippa Ben Jossip David ha Cohen: 18 December 1912 - 18 September 1972) was a German political activist and journalist, originally from Galicia.
For reasons of race and politics he spent the twelve Nazi years in exile.
That eventful period included more than one year locked up by the authorities in Switzerland where grounds for his conviction included "damaging [Swiss] neutrality" ("Verletzung der Neutralität").
After 1945 he remained politically engaged.
In 1953 he was deported by a military court in East Berlin to the Soviet Union for execution.
In the event his sentence was commuted to a 25-year stretch in a Siberian labor camp.
Then in October 1955 he was released to West Germany in the context of a general agreement between the governments in Bonn and Moscow for the return of surviving German prisoners of war.
Leo Bauer later became a specialist advisor to Chancellor Brandt on East-West German relations ("Ostpolitik").