Fritz carpet
Fritz Carpet (born November 26, 1918 in Berlin ; † February 25, 2012 there ) was a German-Jewish journalist and anti-fascist resistance fighter .
Life
Growing up in a liberal Jewish family in Berlin, Fritz Teppich joined left-wing youth groups. When the Spanish Civil War started, he worked in a hotel in Belgium near the French border. He went to France, then to Spain and fought in the left-wing nationalist "Assanja" battalion. He ended up in Catalonia and spent the rest of the Spanish Civil War as an adjutant in a republican army corps. After the defeat of the republic, Fritz Teppich returned to Belgium in the summer of 1939 and worked in a Jewish bakery in Brussels. After the German invasion, he fled to France, then to Portugal, where he was interned until the end of the war. Fritz Carpet returned to Berlin in 1946. Much of his family was murdered in the Holocaust . The non-party convinced communist worked in Berlin as a journalist for Junge Welt and ADN . He was active in the Association of Fighters and Friends of the Spanish Republic 1936–1939 and in the Jewish community.
His sister Mela was married to Hans Kempinski, the last owner of the large Kempinski hotels and restaurants in Berlin , before they were Aryanized . Fritz Carpet later sought restitution .
Works (selection)
- Fritz Carpet: The Red Boy Scout - the adventurous journey of a Berlin Jew through the 20th century . Elefanten Press, Berlin 1996
- Fritz Carpet (Ed.): Spain's Heaven. Popular Front and International Brigades against Fascism 1936–1939 . Elefanten Press, Berlin 1996
literature
- The "heir" of the Kempinskis . In: Jüdische Zeitung , January 2007
- Obituary. In: New Germany
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Carpet in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary of the VVN / BdA
- Obituary of the portuguese broadcaster RTP (port.)
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Marlies Emmerich: Everything lost - only the hotel name remained - Fritz Carpet is fighting for recognition of the Kempinski family heritage . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 8, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carpet, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and anti-fascist resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 2012 |
| Place of death | Berlin |