Karl-Heinz Krumm

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Karl-Heinz Krumm (born April 21, 1930 in Rostock , † 1992 in Costa Rica ) was a German journalist .

Life

Krumm was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD), which was founded after the end of the Second World War , and began his first journalistic activities in Schwerin as a volunteer for the Norddeutsche Zeitung . On October 28, 1949, he was arrested in the course of mass arrests that went hand in hand with the conformity of the LDPD to the bloc party and charged with “anti-Soviet propaganda” and “illegal group formation” in the Schwerin judicial building together with 13 friends. On July 21, 1950, the Soviet Military Tribunal No. 48240 sentenced the RSFSR to 25 years imprisonment in accordance with Articles 58-2 and 58-10 of the Criminal Code in an Isprawitel'no-trudowoj camp - a corrective labor camp of the Soviet GULag system. From September to November 1950, Krumm was initially imprisoned in the Bautzen correctional facility before the first instance judgment was overturned. So there was a new hearing before the same military tribunal, which according to Articles 58-2, 58-10, Paragraphs 2 and 58-11 StGB of the RSFSR ended on November 23 with the same verdict as the first trial. Krumm was serving the prison in the Siberian camps Vorkutlag and Retschlag , where he had to serve mainly work in the coal ash Eight and craft activities. After a visit to Moscow by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was released Krumm on 15 December 1955, based on the Bureau Decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet of 28 September that year.

After returning to Germany, he devoted himself to journalism again and found a job at the Werra-Rundschau in Eschwege in Hesse . Through good contacts with the deputy editor -in- chief Karl-Hermann Flach , whom he knew from the Norddeutsche Zeitung , he finally switched to the Frankfurter Rundschau . Krumm was initially responsible for reporting on the judiciary and the police; later he also wrote on terrorism and other domestic issues. In 1990 he retired from editing.

On May 17, 1991, Krumm was officially rehabilitated by the Soviet Union. In 1992 he died in an accident at the end of a vacation in Costa Rica . His journalistic legacy is stored in the Institute for Urban History in Frankfurt am Main .

Awards

literature

  • Christian Münter: The conflict at the Rostock high school . In: Horst Köpke, Friedrich-Franz Wiese: My fatherland is freedom: The fate of the student Arno Esch . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1990, ISBN 3-356-00373-9 , pp. 53-68

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personal data
SURNAME Krumm, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH 1992
Place of death Costa Rica