Hans Schaul (13 December 1905 – 19 May 1988) was a German politician and a long-standing legally trained editor of the theoretical magazine of the Socialist Unity Party, Einheit.
[1] Schaul was born a few years after the opening of the twentieth century, at Hohensalza (as it was then known), a mid-sized newly industrialised town in the Prussian province of Posen.
At times he was working in the International Brigade's General Inspectorate with the high-profile Italian Communist Luigi Longo (also known as "Gallo").
In 1943 Schaul then became a member of a British Labour Corps in Algeria, following the Anglo-American military invasion of the entire region.
Even before this marriage, however, he had obtained a post as the personal assistant to Heinrich Rau, chairman of the influential German Economic Commission in the part of what had been Germany that became, between 1945 and 1949, administered and designated as the Soviet occupation zone.
After that he became chief editor with Einheit, which was a newspaper of the country's ruling SED (party), targeted at a readership able and willing to take an interest in "the theory and practice of Scientific Socialism".