Heinrich Rau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Heinrich Rau

German Communist politician (1899–1961)

Date of Birth: 02-Apr-1899

Place of Birth: Feuerbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 23-Mar-1961

Profession: politician, resistance fighter

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Heinrich Rau

  • Heinrich Gottlob "Heiner" Rau (2 April 1899 – 23 March 1961) was a German communist politician during the time of the Weimar Republic; subsequently, during the Spanish Civil War, he was a leading member of the International Brigades and after World War II an East German statesman. Rau grew up in a suburb of Stuttgart, where early on he became active in socialist youth organizations.
  • After military service in World War I, he participated in the German Revolution of 1918-19.
  • From 1920 onward, he was a leading agricultural policy maker of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
  • This ended in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power.
  • Shortly afterward Rau was thrown in jail for two years.
  • As an enemy of the Nazi regime in Germany he was imprisoned, in total, for more than half of the time of Hitler's reign.
  • After his first imprisonment he emigrated in 1935 to the Soviet Union (USSR).
  • From there, in 1937, he went on to Spain, where he participated in the Spanish Civil War as a leader of one of the International Brigades.
  • In 1939, he was arrested in France, and was delivered by the Vichy regime back to Nazi Germany in 1942.
  • After a few months in a Gestapo prison, he was transferred to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in March 1943.
  • While in the concentration camp he participated in conspiratorial prisoner activities, which led to a camp uprising in the final days before the end of World War II in Europe. After the war he played an important role in the political scene of East Germany.
  • Before the establishment of an East German state he was the chairman of the German Economic Commission, the precursor to the East German government.
  • Subsequently, he became chairman of the National Planning Commission of East Germany and a deputy chairman of the East German Council of Ministers.
  • He was a leading economic politician and diplomat of East Germany and led various ministries at different times.
  • Within East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) he was a member of the party's CC Politburo.

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