Georg Engl
Georg Engl (born January 23, 1901 in Munich ; † 1982 ibid) was a German politician ( KPD ).
Life
Georg Engl came from Munich and worked as a construction worker in Freiburg im Breisgau . There he became sub-district leader of the KPD in the 1920s . In 1931 he was elected city councilor for the KPD. After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he went into hiding and thus escaped first arrest after the Reichstag fire . He became involved in the resistance and was finally arrested in December 1933 and sentenced to six months in prison for preparing for high treason , which he served in Bruchsal . From 1936 he was imprisoned in the Kislau , Dachau and Mauthausen concentration camps. In 1941 he was released and drafted into a penal battalion for military service.
After the Second World War he returned to Munich. He worked there as a municipal worker and was a member of the Munich city council from 1950 until the KPD was banned in 1956. In the Bundestag election in 1953 , he ran unsuccessfully for the KPD in the Bundestag constituency of Fürstenfeldbruck and on the Bavarian state list.
Web links
- History of the Freiburg municipal council under National Socialism. at freiburg.de, accessed on May 10, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Engl, Georg . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Ebbinghaus to Eyrich] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 270 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 201 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Engl, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1982 |
| Place of death | Munich |