Walter Janka at the extraordinary party congress of the SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany/Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands) in Berlin (December 1989)
Born
29 April 1914
Kleinmachnow, Germany
Died
17 March 1994 (1994-03-18) (aged 79)
Berlin, Germany
Nationality
German
Occupation
Publisher
Walter Janka (29 April 1914 – 17 March 1994) was a German communist, political activist and writer who became a publisher.[1]
Janka is notable for having spent time incarcerated as a political prisoner under the rule of the Nazis and later imprisoned under suspicion of counter-revolutionary activities by the Supreme Court of East Germany, in both cases serving most of his sentence at Bautzen prison.
^Carsten Wurm; Bernd-Rainer Barth. "Janka, Walter: Leiter des Aufbau-Verlags, »Säuberungs«-Opfer". Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
WalterJanka (29 April 1914 – 17 March 1994) was a German communist, political activist and writer who became a publisher. Janka is notable for having...
Spanish Civil War. In a 1991 interview, International Brigade veteran WalterJanka recalled, "While I was fighting at the front, shooting at the Fascists...
Mielke, the future head of the East German Ministry of State Security. WalterJanka, a veteran of the Republican forces who remembers him described Mielke's...
a year later, he appeared as a reluctant witness against his friend WalterJanka at another show trial in 1957. Paul Merker was born near Meissen in Kingdom...
irregularities" and replaced briefly by WalterJanka. In October 1948, the SED was instrumental in replacing Janka, Volkmann and Bergmann as corporate directors...
Brandt Georg Dertinger Karl Wilhelm Fricke Otto Maercker Herbert Crüger WalterJanka Gustav Just Heinz Zöger Wolfgang Harich Erich Loest Kurt Vieweg Rudolf...
she reported to her handlers include the high-profile intellectuals WalterJanka and Christa Wolf, both of whom were near neighbour's in the prestigious...
against a former friend WalterJanka, head of the Aufbau Publishing Company, creating a new "text book" characterized enemy. "Janka vs. Harich: the worldly...
Wilson Homer Elkins, 85, American educator and university administrator. WalterJanka, 79, German communist, political activist and writer. Elenjikal Chandy...
Leipzig. In Berlin there was a "circle of like minded persons" centred on WalterJanka and Gustav Just. There was also a "Thursday circle" around Fritz J. Raddatz...
trials. It is true that the sentences handed out to Wolfgang Harich, WalterJanka and their alleged fellow conspirators in 1957 were less savage than those...
at the publishing house Verlag Volk und Wissen, afterward succeeding WalterJanka as head of Aufbau-Verlag, working there until 1966. In 1963, Gysi became...
through dress-making. With other KPD members, such as Fritz Fugmann, WalterJanka and "Lex" Ende, she maintained contact with internees/prisoners still...
high-profile show trials prosecuted by Melsheimer included Wolfgang Harich, WalterJanka, Leo Herwegen, Otto Fleischer und Leonhard Moog. Melsheimer served as...
in water. On the Janka scale of hardness, which measures hardness of woods, lignum vitae ranks highest of the trade woods, with a Janka hardness of 4,500 lbf...
Just and five other soldiers promptly volunteered. Janka was found guilty, along with WalterJanka, Heinz Zöger, and Richard Wolf, and sentenced to four...
collected in the 1970s by three Byelorussian writers, Ales' Adamovich, Janka Bryl', and Vladimir Kolesnik and published as a book in Russian and Byelorussian...
as much heat.[citation needed] List of woods Hardwood flooring Softwood Janka hardness test Brinell scale John N. Owens; H. Gyde Lund (2009). Forests...
formerly placed in Vicia include: Lens nigricans (as V. nigricans (M.Bieb.) Janka) Vicia means 'binder' in Latin; this was the name used by Pliny for vetch...
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