Anton Gebler

Anton Gebler (born April 12, 1899 in Hösbach ; † October 4, 1970 in Duisburg ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime , a prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp and a KPD functionary in the state leadership of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life dates

Gebler, who was a pipe fitter by trade, lived in Duisburg and was active in the illegal resistance of the KPD. After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he first fled to the Netherlands . After his return in early 1934, he was arrested in April and sentenced to two years in prison for high treason . In 1937 he became a political prisoner in the newly established Buchenwald concentration camp. He was employed in the bookbinding command within the prisoners' library and in 1939 was appointed Kapo . In this function he led the illegal party work of prisoners from the Ruhr area .

After liberation from National Socialism , he went back to Duisburg and worked in the cadre department of the KPD state leadership in North Rhine-Westphalia until the party was banned in 1956. He was a member of the first Federal Assembly that elected Theodor Heuss as the first Federal President in 1949 .

Individual evidence

↑ Heinz Koch, Udo Wohlfeld: The German beech forest committee. The period from 1945 to 1958. Weimar 2010, p. 175, ISBN 978-3-935275-14-9 .
↑ Gebler, Anton . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Gaa to Gymnich] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 353 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 297 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Gebler, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German political concentration camp prisoner, KPD functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	April 12, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hösbach
DATE OF DEATH	4th October 1970
Place of death	Duisburg

[1] Heinz Koch, Udo Wohlfeld: The German beech forest committee. The period from 1945 to 1958. Weimar 2010, p. 175, ISBN 978-3-935275-14-9 .

[2] Gebler, Anton . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Gaa to Gymnich] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 353 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 297 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).