Karl Ferlemann

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Karl Ferlemann (born August 2, 1901 in Heiligenhaus ; † May 3, 1945 near Schwerin ) was a German KPD politician .

Life

Karl Ferlemann came from a working-class family and after attending elementary school he worked in agriculture, in an ammunition factory and in Velbert as a fitter in a factory. In 1919 he joined the KPD (Spartakusbund), in which he received his first functionary role as head of the Barmen sub-district in the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) . From April 1926 he attended the International Lenin School of the Comintern in Moscow for two years . He wrote there under the pseudonym Peter Fries. In May 1928 he was elected to the Prussian state parliament for the Düsseldorf-West electoral district and re-elected in 1932 . In Barmen he was sub-district leader of the KPD from 1928 and from 1930 leader of the Kampfbund against fascism in the Lower Rhine district. In Düsseldorf he taught at the Marxist Workers School . From 1931 he was the organizational head of the Saxony district leadership of the KPD in Leipzig .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , in April 1933, when the district leader Fritz Selbmann was arrested, he became the political leader of the Saxony district of the KPD. He was intended to lead the now illegal work of the KPD in Germany, but fell into the clutches of the Gestapo on November 17, 1933 . His partner Gertrud Keller (1902–1982), who had previously been a KPD member in the Rhenish provincial assembly , was also arrested. On July 4, 1935, he was sentenced by the People's Court to six years in prison for preparation for high treason. After the end of his imprisonment in Waldheim prison , he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in December 1939 . At the end of the war, after the concentration camp was dissolved , he was murdered by the SS on May 3, 1945 on a death march by the concentration camp prisoners .

After the end of the war, Ferlemann was buried on the "Place of the Victims of Fascism" in Schwerin . In the GDR a street in Leipzig was named after him. A plaque in Leipzig-Lindenau has been commemorating him since 2011 .

Fonts

  • Combat experiences. Working methods in the lower party units . (Special edition from the series "Kampferfahrungen"). Leipzig, Selbstverlag Karl Ferlemann (MdL; responsible for the content), [1933], 191 pp.

literature

  • Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , pp. 199-200 ( online ).
  • Anett Krause, Cordula Reuß (eds.): Nazi looted goods in the Leipzig University Library: [Catalog for the exhibition in the Bibliotheca Albertina, November 27, 2011 to March 18, 2012] . Leipzig University Library, writings from the Leipzig University Library; 25, 2011, pp. 33-37

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c data according to Krause, with Weber different information
  2. ^ Anett Krause, Cordula Reuss (ed.): Nazi looted property in the Leipzig University Library . 2011, pp. 31–33
personal data
SURNAME Ferlemann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiligenhaus
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1945
Place of death near Schwerin