delegate to the assembly of the Western European Union
Ernst Paul took which position between Apr 1959 and Jul 1961?
Ernst Paul Ernst Paul ( 1897–1978 ) was a Sudeten German Social Democratic politician and journalist . Youth . Paul was born on 27 April 1897 in Steindorf , Bohemia , the son of Anton Paul and Anna Paul ( née Tampe ) . His father was a weaver and the family lived in poverty . He attended volksschule in Riegersdorf 1903–1908 . Between 1908 and 1911 he attended bürgerschule in Eulau . After leaving school , Paul worked as a typesetter apprentice 1911–1915 . Pauls mother died in 1912 . In the same year he joined the Young Workers League of Austria . He became a SDAPÖ member in 1913 . World War I . During World War I he served as corporal in the Austro-Hungarian army . He fought at the Battles of the Isonzo and on the Eastern Front in Galicia , Bukovina and Romania . He was awarded a Medal for Bravery . In Czechoslovakia . After his military service , he became a member of the German Social Democratic Workers Party in the Czechoslovak Republic ( DSAP ) . He took part in founding of the Social Democratic Workers Youth League and served as chairman until 1920 . In 1920 he moved to Teplitz-Schönau . Between 1920 and 1926 he served as chairman of the Socialist Youth League . He took part in the founding of the Socialist Youth International , and served as a member of its bureau between 1923 and 1932 . In 1924 he moved to Prague . Between 1925 and 1938 he served as editor of the Prague-based newspaper Der Sozialdemokrat ( The Social Democrat ) . In 1930 he was named Educational Secretary of the party , later being named Central Secretary of DSAP . He served as vice chairman of the German Popular Education Institute . Moreover , Paul led the paramilitary wing of the party , Republikanische Bürgerwehr . Years in exile . At the time of the signing of the Munich Agreement , Paul was visiting Sweden . He stayed in Sweden in exile to avoid arrest back home . Paul lived in Stockholm from 1938 to 1948 . He functioned as the leader of Sudeten German exiles in Sweden . 1941–1942 he went to London to negotiate with the Czechoslovak government-in-exile president Edvard Beneš on the future of the Sudeten Germans . He took part in forming the International Group of Democratic Socialists in Stockholm in 1942 . His Czechoslovak citizenship was withdrawn in 1943 by the government-in-exile , rendering Paul stateless . In West Germany . In 1948 Paul moved to the West German town of Esslingen am Neckar . He served as editor-in-chief of the SPD organ in Baden Württemberg , Allgemeine Zeitung in Stuttgart/Mannheim , 1949–1951 . He was a Bundestag member 1949–1969 . He was part of the West German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 1956–1967 . Moreover , he was a delegate to the assembly of the Western European Union . Paul died on 11 June 1978 in Gallspach , Austria . He was buried in Esslingen am Neckar on 16 June 1978 .