Karl Grönsfelder

Karl Grönsfelder (born January 18, 1882 in Frankfurt am Main , † February 20, 1964 in Nuremberg ) was a Bavarian politician of the KPD and an anti-fascist resistance fighter .

Life

After finishing school and completing his apprenticeship, Karl Grönsfelder worked as a mechanic in Frankfurt and Cologne from 1900 to 1903 . In 1903 he moved to Nuremberg, where he became a member of the SPD and the German Metalworkers' Association in 1908 .

In 1917 he joined the USPD because of the war policy of the SPD leadership. At the beginning of 1919 he was one of the founders of the KPD in Nuremberg. In 1923 he was elected a member of the trade union commission and the central committee of the KPD. On December 19, 1923, he succeeded Joseph Eisenberger as a member of the Bavarian State Parliament .

In 1924 Grönsfelder was arrested for his political activities for the KPD, which had already been banned, and was imprisoned as a member of parliament for some time, despite his immunity . However, this year he was re-elected as a member of the Bavarian State Parliament.

In 1926 he became state secretary and secretary for trade union issues in the KPD district leadership in Northern Bavaria . Internal party disputes in the KPD headquarters led in 1930 to the exclusion from the KPD. From 1930 on, Grönsfelder was then head of the KPD opposition in Nuremberg.

Because of his resistance to National Socialism , he was taken into protective custody again in April 1933 and arrested in the Fürth emergency prison . In May 1933 he was briefly imprisoned in Munich-Stadelheim prison and until 1935 in Dachau concentration camp . After his release from prison he was not placed by the Nuremberg Employment Office and he was unemployed until 1937. After that he worked as a mechanic again.

In 1946 he was again a member of the KPD and in 1947 elected to the KPD district leadership of Bavaria. In 1949 he was again expelled from the KPD.

literature

• Horst Klaus: outsiders and representatives. In the footsteps of the Nuremberg metalworkers Karl Grönsfelder and Otto Kraus . In: Arno Klönne (Ed.): Vanishing points. Hamburg 2003 ISBN 3-89965-039-5 , pp. 160-173.
• Grönsfelder, Karl . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
• Hartmut Mehringer : The KPD in Bavaria 1919-1945. Prehistory, Persecution, and Resistance. In: Martin Broszat , Hartmut Mehringer (eds.): Bavaria in the Nazi era V. The parties KPD, SPD, BVP in persecution and resistance. Munich, Vienna 1983, pp. 23-24 and 39.
• Martin Schumacher (Ed.): M. d. L. The end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. A biographical index. Düsseldorf 1995, No. 402.

Web links

• Karl Grönsfelder in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• Communist Party of Germany (KPD), 1919–1933 / 1945–1956 in the Bavarian Historical Lexicon