Erhard Koenig

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Grave of Erhard König in the old cemetery in Weimar

Erhard König (born February 3, 1900 in Kockisch near Mittweida ; † April 19, 1966 in Erfurt ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ), Spain fighter , partisan and a senior official of the People's Police .

Life

König was born the ninth son of fifteen children of a quarry worker. König also worked in the quarry as a child. After attending elementary school , he initially worked as a construction worker. From 1919 to 1929 he worked with short breaks as a stone worker in the granite granulite works in Mittweida. In 1916 he became a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth and in 1918 of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . From 1918 to 1923 he was a functionary in their local group organization. Since 1918 it was organized in a union , first in the construction workers 'association, from 1923 in the stone workers' association. In 1923 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He became a city ​​councilor in Mittweida, headed the protection and defense organization of the KPD in Mittweida, Roßwein and Döbeln and was an instructor of the Red Front Fighters Association in the KPD district leadership. From 1924 to 1927 he was a member of the Steinert works council . After a strike in 1929, König was reprimanded and never found work in his profession again.

In 1933 he emigrated to Czechoslovakia by decision of the KPD and lived there under the code name Rudolf Stark . From 1934 to 1935 he worked as an instructor in the emigre's home in Stodůlky, a village near Prague , and from 1935 to 1936 as an organizational instructor . He was arrested several times for his political activities and then expelled from the country. In March 1936 he went to Moscow and was a student at the International Lenin School .

From October 1936 he took part in the Spanish Civil War and fought in a regiment of the Spanish People's Army, later as chief of staff in the battalion "Etkar André" of the XI. International Brigade "Ernst Thälmann" . In 1938, König became a member of the Spanish Communist Party and made an honorary citizen of the Republic of Spain . He was badly wounded in the Battle of Jarama in February 1938. In 1939 he went to France with his brigade , was interned and worked there as a political leader. Later he came to the Gurs camp and worked there as apparatus chief for the entire camp. King was convicted of illegal party work and taken to the fortress of Collioure . At the end of 1939 he was sent to the Le Vernet camp and in 1941 to the Djelfa camp in Algeria . After the Allies landed in 1943, König was initially forcibly recruited into the 363rd work company of the British Army . In December 1943 he and 31 other German interbrigadists were released from the British army at the instigation of the Soviet government and went to the Soviet Union . There he became a member of the National Committee "Free Germany" and volunteered for partisan struggle in Belarus , Lithuania and Latvia .

In 1945 he returned to Germany and initially worked for the KPD regional leadership in Dresden . In 1946 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From June 1946, King was a member of the People's Police (DVP or VP). After attending the VP School in Berlin in 1947 he became deputy head of the State Criminal Police Office of Saxony . From 1948 he worked as VP commander in the Dresden Presidium, from 1949 as VP inspector in Saxony and from November 1949 as VP chief inspector and head of the DVP of the state of Thuringia . After the dissolution of the states and the formation of the districts in the GDR, he was head of the district authority of the DVP Erfurt from July 1952 to 1960 . In 1957 he was reassessed major general . In 1960, König retired from the service for health reasons.

König was also a member of the SED district leadership and a member of the Erfurt district assembly . He last lived in Weimar.

Awards and honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Erhard König  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berliner Zeitung of April 28, 1964.
  2. ↑ Congratulations on your 60th birthday . In: Neues Deutschland , February 3, 1960.
  3. ^ Berliner Zeitung of April 28, 1964.
  4. ^ New Germany of February 24, 1960.
  5. ^ New Germany of April 22, 1966.
  6. ↑ Street directory of the state capital Erfurt 2011 ( Memento from February 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.5 MB), p. 84.
  7. ↑ Chronicle of the Carl-August-Musäus regular school ( memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME King, Erhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stark, Rudolf (code name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and official of the People's Police
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Kockisch at Mittweida
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1966
Place of death Erfurt