Bruno Leuschner

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Bruno Max Leuschner (12 August 1910 – 10 February 1965) was a German politician and functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Leuschner was born into the family of a shoemaker and a seamstress. After graduating from high school in Berlin-Neukölln, he completed a clerical internship at the Lachmann & Meyer clothing factory in Berlin, where he then worked as a clerk, calculator, salesman, and most recently as an employee of the export department. In the evenings he studied economics, philosophy and psychology at the Lessing University and the Friedrich Wilhelm University. He also attended the Marxist Workers' School and in 1931, he joined the KPD in the Berlin-Neukölln district, then he was active in Berlin-Wedding Ost, and from 1933 he held positions. He was a collaborator of the newspaper "Der Rote Wedding" and was also active in KPD's military intelligence M-Apparat. In 1936, Leuschner was arrested and sentenced in 1937 by the District Court of Berlin to six years in prison for "conspiracy to commit high treason", which he served in Brandenburg-Görden and Sonnenburg prisons. He was then imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps until he was liberated in 1945. Leuschner was involved in establishing the economic department of the KPD, of which he was then head. As head of the Economic and Finance Department of the SED Central Committee, he played a major role in the creation of the German Economic Commission, where he was entrusted with the leadership, first of the Economic Affairs Department, then of the Planning Department and at the same time deputy head of the entire planning commission.