Walter Janka
1914–1994 (age 80)
Biography
Walter Janka (29 April 1914 – 17 March 1994) was a German communist, political activist and writer-turned-publisher who served as a battalion commander in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
Janka is notable for having spent time incarcerated as a political prisoner in both Nazi and East Germany, in the latter under suspicion of counter-revolutionary activities, in both cases serving most of his sentence at Bautzen prison.