Richard Aßmann's daughter, Hildegard Aßmann (1907-1989), married Alexander Abusch in 1931. At the time Abusch was a Communist Party activist: he would spend most of the twelve Nazi years as a political exile, first in France and later in Mexico. After war ended he was able to return to Berlin in July 1946, becoming a member of the &lt;a href="Socialist%20Unity%20Party%20of%20Germany"&gt;ruling Socialist Unity Party ("Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands" / SED)&lt;/a&gt; in the Soviet occupation zone: he was for many years after 1949 a stalwart of the East German political establishment.