Wolfgang Bergold

Bergold was born in Saxony. His father was a lithographer and porcelain painter who later worked as a library administrator. Wolfgang Bergold successfully completed his school career in 1932 and then started to study Economics, Russian and Chinese at the Dresden University of Technology. In 1969 he became Secretary of the Central Leadership of the so-called Committee of Anti-fascist resistance fighters in East Germany, and from 1970 he was secretary of the international umbrella organisation, the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – Association of Anti-Fascists (FIR). In 1982 he became chairman of the Finance Control Commission of the FIR in Vienna. Wolfgang Bergold died on 14 August 1987. == Awards and honours ==

• Banner of Labor (1966) • Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1973) • Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold (1978) • Patriotic Order of Merit Gold clasp (1983) == Publications (not necessarily a complete list) ==

• Die Verschärfung der Klassenwidersprüche in Frankreich. In: Einheit (1962), Vol 5, p 87–96. • Vietnam schreitet von Sieg zu Sieg. In: Deutsche Außenpolitik (1965), Vol 11, p 1314–1321. ==References==