Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1983 - 10 Pfennig

Meritorious Personalities of the German Workers 'Movement, Edition 1983 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes five commemorative postage stamps depicting illustrious figures of the German workers' movement. No special first-day cover envelope Special cancellation from January 25 to March 24, 1983 Siegfried Rädel Born on March 7, 1893, the son of a printer in Copitz near Pirna. After attending the elementary school in Pirna and Posta (near Pirna) apprenticeship as a carpenter and carpenter. 1909 connection to the workers youth movement; 1910 entry into the German Timber Workers Association. 1912 member of the SPD. 1913-1918 military service. In the November Revolution in Germany member of the Workers' and Soldiers Council in Pirna. Co-founder of several local groups of the KPD in Pirna and the surrounding area. Political leader of the local group and the subdistrict Pirna of the KPD. In 1920 one of the organizers of the resistance against the Kapp Putsch in East Saxony; Chairman of the works council in the artificial silk factory Küttner near Pirna. 1921-1932 city councilor in Pirna. 1921 to 1924 substitute member or member of the Central Committee of the KPD. 1927 to 1929 again member of the district management Ostsachsen of the KPD. He was one of the leading social politicians of the KPD and played a significant role in the development of his revolutionary social policy. 1928 to 1933 Chairman of the Association of Sociopolitical Organizations (Arso). 1928 to 1930 and 1932 to early 1933 responsible for the publication of their organ "Proletarian social policy". At the 12th Party Congress of the KPD 1929 election to the candidate of the Central Committee. Since 1929 Political Secretary of the subdivision Leipzig and member of the district leadership Saxony of the KPD. After the establishment of the fascist dictatorship illegal work in Berlin; Participant in the illegal meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party on February 7, 1933 in the Sporthaus Ziegenhals (near Berlin). End of 1933 Grenzstellenleiter of the KPD in the CSR. 1935 Referent for social policy in the German sector of the Red Trade Union International. Since the end of 1935 head of Section South Section of the Central Committee of the KPD in Switzerland; Expulsion to France. Since the end of 1936 at the head of the emigration line of the German Communists living in France. 1937 2nd chairman of the Association of German Emigrants; in this capacity member of the International Advisory Council of the High Commissioner of the League of Nations for German Refugees. 1939 participation in the Bern Conference of the KPD; Election as a member of the Central Committee. September 1939 Internment by the French authorities. August 1942 extradition to fascist Germany, where he was sentenced to death. On 10 May 1943 Siegfried Rädel was murdered in the penitentiary Berlin-Plötzensee.