Paul-Horst, Anna Georgievna

Anna Georgievna Paul-Horst was born in 1902 in the village of Streckerau, Novouzensk district , Samara province . To help provide for a large family of parents, she went to work at 13 years old. She worked at the Kamyshin cast iron foundry.

In the city of Kamyshin, she participated in the youth movement, where, together with A. Meshcheryakov, she created a communist youth union.

She worked in the governing bodies of the Komsomol - from March 18, 1919 she worked as a member of the board of the Kamyshin branch of the Union of Communist Youth, head of the art and sports department, in 1919 she looked after the wounded on ships in the city of Saratov , in May 1920 she was elected at the 1st Kamyshin district congress of the Komsomol to the district committee of the Komsomol (Ukom) of the Komsomol, a delegate to the Saratov provincial Komsomol conference. In the same year, she worked as the head of the information and statistics department of the Kamyshin Ucom of the Komsomol. The delegate of the III Congress of the RKSM (October 1920) in Moscow.

In 1921, she fought with the units of Vakulin ^[2] .

From February 16, 1930 to July 17, 1932 she worked as a director (rector) of the Nempedinstitut.

He is the author of the article “Sonopalovschina” (the newspapers “Trudovaya Pravda”, “ Nachrichten ” dated August 2, 1930), which gave rise to repressions of the organizers and first teachers of the Nempedinstitut in Engels A. Synopalov, G. Dinges and P. Rau ^[3] .

According to the decision of the NKVD of the Saratov Region on October 9, 1937, Anna Georgievna was arrested in Moscow. At that time, she worked as a teacher of children's daycare center No. 64. On September 17, 1939 she was convicted by the Special Conference of the NKVD of the USSR for anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Rehabilitated October 12, 1955 by the Supreme Court of the USSR. Since that time, she lived in Ishimbay , then in Moscow. In the 1960s, Paul-Horst participated in the movement for the restoration of the Volga Germans republic. In 1955 she was a member of the 2nd delegation of Soviet Germans.

Living in Peredelkino since the 1970s in a boarding school for old communists, veterans of the party and the Komsomol, she corresponded with the Komsomol members of the city of Kamyshin, and came to meet with them.

Died in 1984.

According to the testament of Anna Paul-Horst, the urn with its ashes was buried in the city of Kamyshin (Volgograd Region) by a local Komsomol cell in the city fraternal military cemetery next to the soldiers who died in hospitals during the Great Patriotic War and the Heroes of the Soviet Union buried in Kamyshin.

data on the book Arngold G. D. My name. Memoirs, articles, documents, speeches. Publication of the ANO "Center for German Culture", M., 2008.

it is necessary to recall one more colorful figure related to the formation of the Nemgospedinstitut, which was opened in 1929. In 1930, for a short time, its director was Anna Paul-Horst. She was born in 1907 in the village. Streckerau of the Saratov region, was the organizer of the first Komsomol cell in the city of Kamyshin. At the age of 16, she was admitted to the RCP (b), was an active participant in the struggle against the white bandits, who committed atrocities in the Volga region in 20 years. Anna in the direction of the party studied at Y. M. Sverdlov Moscow University and at the N.K. Krupskaya Academy of Communist Education, led the department of culture and propaganda of the Enegelsky city committee of the party. While working as the director of the pedagogical institute, she was sent on a scientific mission to Germany. After returning from Germany, she was dismissed by the director on suspicion of anti-Soviet activities. Returning to Moscow, Anna continued her active work in the field of communist education and became a professional revolutionary. In 1937, after the arrest and subsequent death in prison of her husband George Gorst, Anna was exiled to Kazakhstan. Freed from exile in 1953, she came to the city of Ishimbay (Bashkiria), got up on special account and settled with her brother Ivan Paul. ... Having received permission to return to Moscow, she was invited to the boarding school of the old communists in Peredelkino. Anna Georgievna died in 1984 in the house of veterans. Ashes, at her request, were transferred to the cemetery of the Heroes of war and revolution in the city of Kamyshin ^[4] .

She was born in a large Catholic family, where eight out of nine children are boys.

Brother - Paul, Ivan Georgievich , Director of the Ishimbay Petroleum College in 1963-1968 ^[five]

Brother - Paul, Yakov Georgievich, instructor of the Higher Moscow School of Red Military Pilots, 1st-class test pilot.

Her husband is Horst, Christian Khristianovich, executive secretary of the Regional Committee of the CPSU (b) ASSR of the Volga Germans in 1929-1932.

• The book of memory of the Saratov region. 1941-1945
• Shamaev V.M. My Komsomol youth. Essays on the history of the Kamyshin Komsomol organization. Kamyshin, 2009.
• Paul Anna: Die “Synopalowiade” // Nachrichten, Nr. 169, 2. August 1930
• Paul Anna: Zwei Jahre bolschewistischen Kampfes in der Pädagogischen Deutschen Hochschule. // Nachrichten, Nr. 6, 6. Januar 1932
• Archives: Archive-investigation file No. OF-10866 (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Saratov Region).

Alexander Shpak (Middle Akhtuba). PAUL-GORST (Paul-Horst) Anna Georgievna