Wolfgang Bergold [SEP] place of death
Wolfgang Bergold
Wolfgang Bergold (born Dresden 19 April 1913: died East Berlin 14 August 1987) was an East German politician and diplomat who in 1963 was appointed as his country's ambassador to (North) Vietnam.
As a young man he was a persistent participant in Communist Resistance against the Nazi regime: between 1933 and 1945 much of his time was spent inside a succession of concentration camps and prisons.
Life.
Bergold was born in Saxony. His father was a lithographer and porcelain painter who later worked
other than their own illegal. Their leader, Adolf Hitler, was a powerful speaker who was particularly vitriolic about the Communist Party, Between 1933 and 1945 Wolfgang Bergold was imprisoned several times. In 1933 he was sentenced to a year's detention, and was interned, from April 1933 till July 1934, in the concentration camp at Hohnstein.
On his release he resumed his illegal activities, Bergold was arrested again in December 1934, and in November 1935 he was sentenced to a year in prison for "Preparation of High