Word: thuringia
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Last week, the foehn again rolled across Bavaria and in its wake an unpredictable German politician, missing since he fled from the Russians last September, appeared in Munich as unexpectedly as the warm rush of the wind itself. He was Dr. Rudolf Paul, former minister president of Thuringia in the Soviet zone...
Changes of foehn-like abruptness have checkered Dr. Paul's political meanderings. When Hitler came to power, spectacled Dr. Paul divorced his Jewish wife, who was later sent to her death in the Riga concentration camp. In 1945, the Americans appointed Dr. Paul mayor of Gera in Thuringia. When the Russians took over Gera, Dr. Paul received them in flag-bedecked streets. He joined the Soviet-sponsored Socialist Unity Party and was soon appointed minister president of Thuringia...
...hiding place in Munich last week, Dr. Paul told a TIME correspondent that he could explain everything. When he was president of Thuringia, he said, the Russians had provided him with an "assistant" who put through Soviet policy in Paul's name. As for disrupting the Munich conference: "I was coerced to lead the walkout against my wishes." And his opposition to the Marshall Plan? "I am and always have been for the Marshall Plan. My name was affixed to the proclamation without my knowledge or consent...
...Rudolf Paul, Minister President of Thuringia; Theodor Plivier, longtime Communist writer, whose book called Stalingrad won him Soviet kudos; Jena's Mayor Heinrich Mertens; Mühlhausen's Mayor Heinrich Stuecker; Mine Director Hans Grassman, who had bossed four Soviet workings in Saxony, where 10,000 conscripted Germans were mining for uranium...
...Germany met to discuss economic problems, showed themselves as little united as their conquerors. Scarcely twelve hours after their arrival, the delegates from the Russian zone rose, stomped out of the blustery night session in the best Gromyko tradition. Cracked slick, scrappy Rudolph Paul, Russian-appointed President of Thuringia, as he climbed into his shiny Maybach for the trip home, "This is a fine democracy you have here when a man can't even make a speech. It's enough to make you sick...