Erich Wiesner (17 April 1897 – 16 October 1968) was a German communist Politician and last German Mayor of Stettin (today Szczecin).Wiesner was born in Weimar and worked as a bookprinter, he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1914 and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1919. He was drafted into the German Army in the First World War. Wiesner became a member of the Central committee of the Young Communist League of Germany in 1920 and moved to the Soviet Union in 1927, where he worked at the Comintern. Wiesner returned to Germany in 1930 and became a journalist at the communist newspaper "Volkswacht" in Stettin. Wikipedia
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