Friedrich Küter

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Berlin memorial plaque on Alt-Mariendorf 53 in Berlin-Mariendorf

Friedrich Karl Ernst Küter (born May 19, 1879 in Stralau ; † January 31, 1945, presumably in Bergen-Belsen ) was a German businessman and, as a local politician, in 1920 the first district councilor of Berlin-Tempelhof .

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On March 22, 1902, Friedrich Küter and Emma Marie Anna Lücke (* February 20, 1878; † August 7, 1961 in Berlin-Friedenau ) married at the registry office Berlin IV a and together they had three daughters, Frieda Dorothea (* December 27 1897 in Fürstenwalde / Spree , recognized as own child at the wedding), Hildegard Anna (born November 17, 1902 in Berlin-Tempelhof ) and unknown by name (born 1909). In 1912 the family moved from the Schlesisches Bahnhof (today Ostbahnhof ) to Berlin-Mariendorf at Dorfstrasse 2 (today Alt-Mariendorf 53). After completing his commercial apprenticeship, he went to work in the district administration after the First World War , in which he participated as a soldier.

Memorial stone for Friedrich Küter in the Volkspark at Eckernpfuhl

Friedrich Küter has been involved in the SPD or the USPD since 1900 . With the formation of Greater Berlin in 1920, Mariendorf became a district of the Tempelhof district and Friedrich Küter was elected to the first district assembly on June 20, 1920 and on November 23 as the head of the district assembly (president of the district assembly).

He served until February 23, 1921, when he became an unpaid district councilor two days later. Küter was personally introduced to the office on March 18, 1921 by the Lord Mayor of Berlin, Gustav Boess . In this role, he headed the construction department. He paid particular attention to the creation of green spaces and allotments in the rapidly expanding city of Berlin. Tempelhof and Mariendorf were rapidly growing places during this time. Mariendorf owes the Volkspark Mariendorf , which was inaugurated in 1931, to his initiative . His main job was to work as a senior inspector in the Kreuzberg district office .

For borough election on March 12, 1933 stood as a candidate on the list Küter Place 3 of the SPD, its mandate was after the seizure of power by the Nazis but do not exercise more and lost all offices. His leave of absence was reported in the Tempelhofer-Mariendorfer Zeitung on March 20, 1933, but he did not officially resign from his position as a city councilor in the district office until June 7, 1933 and was replaced on that day by a state commissioner appointed by the National Socialists.

In 1933, Friedrich Küter was led through Tempelhof streets by SA men with the sign “I am a social democrat” .

He was arrested in April 1944 and had to spend his 65th birthday at the Alexanderplatz police headquarters . After his release he was a day later due to a denunciation in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp abducted. Without a trial, he was taken into so-called protective custody. In the spring of 1945 the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was dissolved. Friedrich Küter is said to have been transported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He was killed there or on the way there. On November 6, 1951, he was officially declared dead on January 31, 1945.

Honors

  • Memorial stone in the Volkspark Mariendorf
  • Memorial plaque on his house at Alt-Mariendorf 53
  • Friedrich Küter House in Mariendorf
  • Küterstrasse since November 1, 1953 (previously street no. 59)
  • Friedrich Küter nursing home park

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Küter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tempelhof 1933 - 1945, book on the exhibition of the Gustav Heinemann School , Berlin January 1983, page 47
  2. ↑ http://test.pflege-mariendorf.berlin/ueber-uns/
personal data
SURNAME Küter, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Küter, Friedrich Karl Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralau
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1945
Place of death Bergen-Belsen