Karl Daunicht

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Karl Daunicht with his family

Karl Daunicht (* July 18, 1898 ; † March 30, 1945 in Celle prison ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and a victim of fascism .

Life

After attending elementary school, Daunicht learned the trade of ship carpenter and was employed at the Stülcken shipyard . He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and belonged to the KPD district organization Wasserkante . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, he continued his anti-fascist resistance against the Nazi regime. After the beginning of the Second World War he found a connection to the resistance group " Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen ", which exercised solidarity with foreign forced laborers and carried out sabotage actions to counteract the war of extermination of the Wehrmacht . He led the resistance group at the Stülcken shipyard. The Gestapo got on his trail, arrested him and took him to the prison in Celle, where his life ended.

Individual evidence

  1. http://321ignition.free.fr/pag/fr/ana/pag_008/pag_05.htm Retrieved September 27, 2011
  2. Ursula Puls : The Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group: Report on the anti-fascist resistance struggle in Hamburg and on the water's edge during the Second World War . Dietz, 1959. Retrieved September 27, 2011 from Google Books