Karl Frank (politician, 1906)

Karl-Wilhelm Frank (born December 5, 1906 in Berlin , † August 21, 1944 in Brandenburg-Görden ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

Life

After attending elementary school, Frank worked as a cabinet maker in Berlin and became unemployed in the mid-1920s. At the age of 16 he began to become politically active. He was initially involved in the labor youth movement and in the union. In 1927 he became a member of the KPD and worked in Berlin as a party functionary. In 1931/32 he attended the International Lenin School of the Communist International ; then he became political secretary of the KPD sub-district Berlin-Zentrum.

In March 1933 he was arrested and sentenced to 16 months in prison. He was then deported to the Lichtenburg concentration camp, but released there after a few months. Nevertheless, he organized himself again in the political resistance and in 1937/38 together with Robert Uhrig built an illegal network of KPD operating groups in Berlin. Together with his partner Hilde Guddorf , he was involved in the publication of the "Information Service" from 1940 and secured the connection between the resistance groups around Robert Uhrig and the Berlin and Hamburg groups of the Rote Kapelle .

In March 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo and, after imprisonment in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and in Landsberg , convicted by the People's Court in June 1944 together with Walter Budeus , Willy Sachse , Franz Mett and others and executed on August 21, 1944 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison.

literature

• Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933 - 1945. Biographies and letters. Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1970, volume 1 page 273ff, volume 2 page 380