Karl Fugger

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Karl Fugger (born December 8, 1897 in Linden near Hanover , † December 24, 1966 in Berlin ) was a German party functionary ( KPD ), trade unionist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He was the head of the federal school and the director of the "Fritz Heckert" college of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB).

Life

Fugger, son of a painter and a weaver , attended elementary school . Between 1912 and 1916 he trained as a plumber . He then worked in the profession until he was called up for military service in 1916 and from 1919 to 1921. In 1912 he joined the metalworker youth. In 1914 he was district leader of the youth workers in Linden. In 1916 he became a member of the German Metalworkers' Association . From 1916 to 1918 he was a member of the International Socialists of Germany (Bremer Linke) . Between and 1918 he had to do military service. He fought as a soldier ( pioneer ) on the Western Front. In 1918 he was wounded and was taken to a hospital in Diez an der Lahn .

Fugger was instrumental in building up the Free Socialist Youth in Hanover and has been a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) since it was founded in 1918/19. He was a speaker and member of the KPD district leadership in Hanover . Later he became a member of the Red Aid Germany (RHD), the International Workers Aid and the Red Front Fighters Association . In 1921/22 he acted as organizational secretary of the KPD Königsberg , in 1922 as organizational secretary of the KPD Düsseldorf . From March 1923 he was political secretary of the KPD in the KPD district of Middle Rhine. In 1923/24 he was a candidate in the central committee of the KPD. From mid-1924 he was briefly an editor at the Magdeburg party newspaper Tribüne . He was dismissed there at the end of 1925 because he belonged to the "middle group" of the KPD and returned to Düsseldorf, where he worked as a plumber. From 1926 to 1928 Fugger was a member of the KPD district leadership in Württemberg. In 1926/27 he worked as an instructor for the Central Committee of the KPD in Bremen , Halle (Saale) , Mannheim and Stuttgart . From 1927 to the end of 1928 he was political secretary of the KPD district of Stuttgart. From 1929 he was an editor in the press service of the Central Committee of the KPD in Berlin, from 1931 secretary of the Württemberg Red Aid .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he continued to work illegally for the KPD and RHD in Stuttgart until the summer of 1933. Then he was organizational secretary of the RHD (code names: "Helmer", "Herbert Waldner", "Herbert Waldemar") in Berlin. On April 3, 1934, Fugger was arrested in Berlin and later sentenced to three years in prison by the 4th criminal division of the Higher Regional Court for “preparing for high treason ” . Between 1934 and 1937 he was imprisoned in Luckau prison. After serving his prison sentence, however, Fugger was not released but transferred to a concentration camp. From 1937 to 1940 he was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp , then from spring 1940 to 1945 in Flossenbürg concentration camp . In the Flossenbürg concentration camp he was a member of the illegal armed resistance group. On April 23, 1945, he was liberated by US troops in the Regensburg area .

In July 1945 Fugger returned to Berlin and became a member of the KPD again. He was a member of the preparatory trade union committee of Greater Berlin and in August 1945 became head of training in the FDGB state executive committee for Greater Berlin. In 1946 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1946 to 1948 he was a member of the board and the executive committee of the FDGB of Greater Berlin. From 1946 to 1963 he was also a member of the FDGB federal executive committee. From 1948 to 1951 he headed the training department in the federal board of the FDGB. He has authored or edited a wide variety of union training materials. From 1946 to 1949 he was head of the federal school of the FDGB. In May 1949 he was appointed to the small secretariat of the FDGB federal board. After studying at the party college "Karl Marx" at the Central Committee of the SED (1950/51) he was deputy director of social sciences from 1951 to 1957 and acting director of the college "Fritz Heckert" of the FDGB in Bernau near Berlin from August 1951 to 1955 . From 1953 to 1955 Fugger was a member of the central executive committee of the science union. In 1957 he had to give up his full-time job due to illness.

Fugger urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Fonts (selection)

  • Current issues of the trade union movement . Berlin 1946.
  • 50 years of German imperialism and the German trade unions . The Free Trade Union, Berlin 1947.
  • The German trade unionists and the November Revolution . The Free Trade Union, Berlin 1948.
  • 1848 -1948. 100 years of struggle for unity, democracy and peace . The Free Trade Union, Berlin 1948.
  • History of the German trade union movement. A concise presentation . The Free Trade Union, Berlin 1949.
  • What does Stalin teach the German activists . The Free Trade Union, Berlin 1949.

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SURNAME Fugger, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fugger, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party functionary (KPD), trade unionist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Linden near Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1966
Place of death Berlin