Walter Janka

Walter Janka
Walter Janka at the extraordinary party congress of the SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany/Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands) in Berlin (December 1989)
Born	29 April 1914 Kleinmachnow, Germany
Died	17 March 1994 (1994-03-18) (aged 79) Berlin, Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	Publisher

Walter Janka (29 April 1914 – 17 March 1994) was a German communist, political activist and writer who became a publisher.^[1]

Janka is notable for having spent time incarcerated as a political prisoner under the rule of the Nazis and later imprisoned under suspicion of counter-revolutionary activities by the Supreme Court of East Germany, in both cases serving most of his sentence at Bautzen prison.