Anton Kalt
Anton Kalt (born September 6, 1903 in Gelsenkirchen , † 1975 ) was a German miner , resistance fighter and author .
Life
Anton Kalt, son of a staunch communist , learned the trade of miner and initially worked at the Freie Vogel & Unverhofft colliery in Schüren until it was closed in 1925. At the age of 16, he participated in the Ruhr uprising as a rider for the Red Army .
After 1925 he worked as a worker at the Aplerbecker Hütte until he and his brother Hans were arrested by the Nazis on the night of March 2 to 3, 1933, mistreated by the Gestapo for eight weeks in the Dortmund stone guard and later transferred to the Esterwegen concentration camp was deported. Since he was found unworthy of defense due to his connection to freethinking and his KPD membership - he is considered the founder of the party in Aplerbeck - he worked as a miner at the Kaiserstuhl colliery in Dortmund's northern part of the city from 1940 .
Together with others, Kalt removed explosive charges on railway bridges in the Aplerbeck area shortly before the American invasion in order to prevent their senseless destruction. On April 12, 1945, he hoisted the white flag on the tower of the local Protestant church, the “Great Church”, and hurried as the only parliamentarian to Sölde to explain to the commandant that no resistance would be offered in Aplerbeck. He was then appointed mayor by the American military leadership.
Anton Kalt, who had close political ties with the painter and staunch KPD member Hans Tombrock , played a key role in the rebuilding of the KPD in Dortmund after the Second World War . From 1948, despite his party membership, he was in charge of the city's vehicle fleet.
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Kalt achieved a certain notoriety in Aplerbeck even before the " seizure of power " in 1933. When performing with his puppet theater and a variety group at party events, he regularly ridiculed local personalities such as politicians and officials. With his book “Hasenkuckuck. Picnic Tales from the Strand ”, which was last reissued in 1986, achieved local popularity after World War II. In this book he describes life in the miners' milieu at the beginning of the last century in several anecdotes. His stories are based on actual events; the names of his actors have changed, but are resolved in the appendix to the last edition of the book. A second volume was in preparation but has not been published.
Trivia
In addition to his writing, Kalt achieved additional fame through his long-time housemate, Fips the monkey, whom he had bought from a traveling circus.
The Anton-Kalt-Weg in Schüren near the Phoenix-See was named after Anton Kalt .
Literature and audio documents
- Anton Kalt: Rabbit cuckoo. Mischievous stories from the hair strand. Dortmund: Ewaldi-Verlag, 1986; ISBN 3-9801151-2-7
- Horst Hensel: Anton Kalt: With rifle and guitar. In: the red grandfather tells. Frankfurt a. Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1975; ISBN 3-436-01857-0
- Kurt Klotzbach : Against National Socialism. Resistance and persecution in Dortmund 1930–1945. Hannover: Verl. For literature and current affairs, 1968
- Günter Högl: Aplerbeck during the Weimar crisis years 1920–1924 in: Kirchhoff, Hans-Georg; Liesenberg, Siegfried (Ed.): 1100 years of Aplerbeck. Essen: Klartext-Verlag, 1998; ISBN 3-88474-735-5
- House of Stories (Wipperfürth): Interview with Max Heitland about Anton Kalt , 1975.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cold, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter, KPD member and local mayor of Aplerbeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelsenkirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1975 |