Bruno Kühn

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Bruno Kühn (born  December 17, 1901 in Rixdorf near Berlin , † probably 1944 in Brussels) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Bruno Kühn was born in 1901 to a working-class family in Rixdorf near Berlin and was Lotte Ulbricht's older brother . From 1918 he belonged to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). During the Weimar Republic, he worked as a functionary of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD), established in 1920, in the field of political child and youth work . During the Spanish Civil War he was a member of the International Brigades .

During the Second World War he went to the Soviet Union to fight as a partisan in the hinterland of the Wehrmacht . There are different details about the time and circumstances of Bruno Kühn's death. In the historiography of the GDR, the representation was widespread that he had died in Belarus in August 1941 . Later, however, there were indications that he was arrested as a "parachute agent" by the Gestapo in Amsterdam in August 1943 and shot in Brussels in 1944 .

Honors

Memorial stone for the former pioneer leader and resistance fighter Bruno Kühn in Bad Belzig , whose name the school built in 1968 also bore

In the GDR, among other things, several schools and pioneer houses as well as a department of the border troops of the GDR , two torpedo speedboats of the People's Navy and a barracks and a regiment of the National People's Army (NVA) bore his name. In Bad Belzig there is a large boulder at the outdoor pool with the inscription Bruno Kühn 1901–1944. Pioneer leader and anti-fascist resistance fighter .

literature

  • Frank Schumann : Lotte and Walter. The Ulbricht in personal testimonials, letters and documents. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-36-001233-X (for general biographical information)
  • Hans Schafranek : In the rear of the enemy: Soviet parachute agents in the German Reich 1942-1944. In: Jahrbuch 1996. Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-90-114227-4 , pp. 10–40 (on recent research results regarding his death)
  • Dietrich Nummert : He was a pioneer leader: life and struggle of the Berlin worker boy Bruno Kühn. Verlag Junge Welt , Berlin 1970 (on historical perception in the GDR)
  • Stephan Hermlin : The first row. Verlag Neues Leben , Berlin 1951, p. 84ff of the fifth edition 1985 (on historical perception in the GDR)
personal data
SURNAME Bold, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and resistance fighter during the Nazi era
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Rixdorf near Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1941 or 1944
Place of death Brussels