Hans Marchwitza

Hans Marchwitza (25 June 1890 – 17 January 1965) was a German writer, proletarian poet, and communist.

In 1930, he published his first book Sturm auf Essen, reporting on the fighting in the Ruhr Area in 1920.

Until 1935 he worked for the Communist Party in the French occupied Saarland and fought as an officer in the Spanish Civil War after 1936.

For his seventieth birthday he gained entrance into the Karl Marx Order and the honorary title of Dr. phil.

He was cremated and honoured with burial in the Pergolenweg Ehrengrab section of Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Cemetery.

His autobiographical trilogy "Die Kumiaks" (1934, 1952, 1959) and autobiography "Meine Jugend" (1947) depict vivid scenes of the life of German working families in Silesia and the Ruhr Area.