Jan Petersen was a German writer who was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), a leader of the Association of Proletarian-Revolutionary Authors (BPRS), and a participant in the German resistance to Nazism who recorded daily life during the Gleichschaltung.
- Occupation
- screenwriter, writer, journalist
- Citizenship
- East Germany
- Born
- 1906, July 2, 1906
- Died
- November 11, 1969