Horst Deichfuß
Horst Deichfuß (11 April 1925 – 6 October 1989) was a German writer. Life. Born in Halberstadt, In 1943 Deichfuß was drafted for military service and in 1945/46 was a US-American or British prisoner of war. After his return from captivity in 1947 he passed the Abitur. He then worked as a mailman for the Deutsche Post der DDR. In 1948 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. In 1955 he founded a cultural group at the Deutsche Post in Halle. In 1961 he completed a correspondence course in postal economics at the engineering school "Rosa Luxemburg