Karl Lumberjack
Karl loggers (* 5. February 1884 in Koszalin ; † 29. January 1945 in Brandenburg-Gorden ) was a German anti-fascist, Berlin city councilor and founding member of the Communist Party which, after a ruling by the People's Court in Brandenburg prison was murdered.
Life
A woodcutter was a stonemason by trade, and later he became a soldier in the First World War . Towards the end of the war he joined the Spartakusbund , belonged to a workers 'and soldiers' council and had been in the KPD since early 1919. From 1921 to 1929, Holzfäller was a member of the Berlin city council , in 1931 he moved to Woltersdorf near Berlin , where he worked in his profession and trained apprentices. He exchanged letters with a former stonemason who was a soldier in the Soviet Union about conditions there and the difficulties of German soldiers in the German-Soviet war . One of his sons had already died in the Soviet Union. When a friend of this son visited him in 1943, he greeted him: “Aren't you ashamed to come here in uniform when we have lost our son?” He also complained that the son had fallen because “a madman defends himself against it , what's coming". To convince the young man, he turned on the Moscow radio station and invited other acquaintances to join . As a result, lumberjack was denounced, arrested on November 11, 1943 and sentenced to death on January 5, 1945 by the People's Court in Potsdam for "undermining military strength, favoring the enemy and preparing for high treason". Karl Holzfäller was murdered by guillotine on January 29, 1945 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison .
Honors
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- The street in Woltersdorf (near Berlin) , where Holzfäller lived from 1931, was renamed Karl-Holzfäller-Strasse after him.
- In 2008, a stumbling block was laid in Berlin-Friedrichshain , Markgrafendamm 35, where woodcutter lived until 1931 .
literature
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lumberjack, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German anti-fascist, Berlin city councilor and founding member of the KPD |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koslin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1945 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg-Görden |