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Heinrich George | Helmut Kind | Karl Heinrich | Ewald Ernst | Kurt Müller | Alfred Weiland | Arno Wend | Helmut Brandt | Georg Dertinger | Max Fechner | Karl Wilhelm Fricke | Wolfgang Harich | Walter Janka | Walter Linse | Paul Merker | Sigrid Paul | Rudolf Bahro | Heinz Brandt | Jürgen Fuchs | Gerulf Pannach | Michael Sallmann | Hans-Joachim Helwig-Wilson | Bärbel Bohley | Freya Klier | Stephan Krawczyk | Vera Lengsfeld | Ulrike Poppe
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 Ewald Ernst was a technical draftsman who became a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU) in October 1945. In March 1946, he was appointed main youth affairs spokesman for the regional CDU association in Saxony. In the same year, he entered the regional parliament (Landtag) on the CDU list and was elected manager of the parliamentary faction. After being interviewed by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD), he was arrested in the doorway of his home in Halle in March 1947. After being temporarily held in various prisons under the Moscow People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), he was eventually incarcerated in the main Soviet remand prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, accused of spying. Until November 1948, he was held on remand in solitary confinement. The cell he was held in was completely without windows and natural light, and was merely equipped with a wooden bed, without a mattress, and a bucket serving as a toilet. His only blanket was his coat and it was forbidden to lie on the bed during the daytime. Ernst was not only kept in solitary confinement, he was also maltreated by being subjected to standing detention and interrogation while standing, or denied food and access to washing facilities. In December 1948, a Soviet Military Tribunal sentenced him to 25 years in a labour camp. Finally, he was transferred to Bautzen. In January 1954, he was released from there to West Germany as part of an amnesty deal. |
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