COMMUNISTS GAIN POLITICAL INFLUENCE IN LAND SACHSEN

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• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
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• Publication Date: June 3, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.-
COUNTRY Soviet Zone Germany
SUBJECT Political; Biographic
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily ,newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Berlin; Zurich; Halle
DATE
PUBLISHED 3 Apr - 5 Jun 1950
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INFORMATION 1950
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
COMMUNISTS GAIN POLITICAL INFLUENCE IN LAND SACRSEN
NAME NEW SACHSEN-ANHALT MINISTER OF INTERIOR -- Freiheit, No 79, 3 Apr 50
Josef Hegen [photograph available in CIA graphics register No 7020],
former Inspector-in-Chief of the People's Police. in Sachsen-Anhalt, has been
sworn in as Minister of Interior for that Land.
Hegen was born in 1907 in Hunschgruen, Czechoslovakia, the son of a miner.
He attended public school and at the age of 11+ went to work in a brickyard.
At an early age he became a member of the'Socialist Youth League, but
later joined a group which oppoced. the League's policy.
In 1921+ he helped organize a local cell of the Communist Party in
Hunshgruen. From 1933 to 19311. he was a member of the Central Committee
of the Communist Youth League in Czechoslovakia. Following the occupa-
tion of that country by Germay, be emigrated on orders from the Central
Committee. Iu 191+3, after Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, he was
betrayed to the Gestapo and committed to Mauthausen concentration camp,
where he remain ea until 1911.5.. After the' stablishment of Soviet Zone
Germany, he becmae a party functionary in Sachsen. He was appointed Chief
of the People's Police for Sachsen-Anhalt in 1944.
PURGE CDU MEMBERS IN LAND SACHSEN -- Neue Zuercher Zeitung, No 1177, 5 Jun 50
Professor Hickmann, former leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
in Sachsen, and two CDU members of the Sachsen Land Diet, Rohland and Haentz-
schel, have been expelled from the party by the CDU Land Executive.
Hickmann, who was one of the most prominent bourgeois politicians in East
Germany, was removed from his various offices at the beginning of 1950 be-
cause he advocated the neutralization of Germany. The Communists now have
finally deprived him of his last chance to return to, public life, man- .
euvering the affair in such a way as to humiliate the CDIJ at the same time,
since Hickman had to be ousted by his own political adherents. The Com-
munist method apparently is to compromise the bourgeois party leaders in a
manner which will make their own followers despise them.
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WOMEN ACTIVE IN SACHSEN-ANRALT PUBLIC LIFE -- Taegliche Rundschau, No 110,
13 May 50
The 2.4 million women in Sachsen-Anhalt represent 56 percent of the total
population. Their participation in public service and industry has been in
proportion to the above figure. Thirty-seven women are burgomasters, 21
are municipal and Kreis counselors, 386 are delegates to Kreis diets and
municipal council assemblies, and approximately 3,500 are community repre-
sentatives.
The largest reprer-ntation of women is in industry. Over 450,000 women
are employed in mining, chemical industry, meta-lurm,; and light industry.
Many of the Land's 700,000 women worker, have become activists and occupy
key po3itions in industry.
TEACHERS' GROUP TO PLUG NATIONAL FRONT -- Taegliche Rundschau, No 103, 4 May 50
The first Activist Teachers' Group of the Free German Youth of Sachsen
has been established in the Diesterweg School in Werdau. The group's aim
is to familiarize the students with the National Front and to get them to
work for its objectives.
SHIPYARD WORKERS JOIN GIMAN-SOVIET FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY -- Taegliche Rundschau,
No 86, 13 Apr 50
Membership in the German-Soviet Friendship Society is increasing steadily
ernunumber of shipyard
by more than 300 monthly in Wismar, a town with a large
workers. Total membership for the Kreis is 77,000
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