Karl Ingelof

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Karl Ingelöf (born February 5, 1898 in Mönchengladbach , † October 16, 1972 in Weißwasser ) was a German politician ( USPD , KPD , SED ).

Life until 1933

Ingelöf was the second of four children of the carpenter Karl Ingelöf and his wife Anna, b. Meier, born. After eight years of attending primary school and an apprenticeship as a carpenter, he was drafted into military service at the age of 17. During the First World War he was wounded four times and buried once. At that time he was in close contact with Social Democrats and joined the USPD. At the end of the war in 1918 he was in the club hospital in Neubabelsberg , where he met his future wife Marta Veronika Kümmel , who worked there as an assistant nurse. As early as 1919, after having seen Rosa Luxemburg at the party school in Charlottenburg, among others, Ingelöf joined the newly founded KPD and worked in the local group in Charlottenburg. In the same year Ingelöf and his wife moved to their hometown of Weißwasser , which prompted his parents to disinherit him because of his connection to the poor maid. In Weisswasser he worked in the Hirsch, Janke & Co. glassworks as a carpenter in the lead crystal grinding shop and in the etching shop until 1924 , and was elected to the works council in 1920 . From 1925 he was political leader of the KPD local group Weißwasser and was subsequently appointed by the central committee of the KPD as sub-district leader in Cottbus. From 1925 to 1931 Ingelöf was mostly unemployed and had to work as an emergency worker.

After the seizure of power in 1933

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Ingelöf was arrested and charged with 33 of his comrades in arms from Weißwasser, Sagar and the surrounding area for preparation for high treason in Leipzig before the Reichsgericht in the Monstre trial (against the boards of the Berlin trade unions). The process was led by Senate President Wilhelm Bünger , who also led the Reichstag fire process . Ingelöf was sentenced to three years in prison, which he served in Halle , Krossen , Görlitz and Breslau, among others . When Ingelöf returned to Weißwasser in 1936, he had to report to the police regularly. He found work in the Luisenhütte , one of the many local glassworks. Despite the harassment from the Nazi regime, he and his wife were active members of the Fritz Schnellbacher group (Britz near Berlin), which consisted of around ten people, and which also included Anni and August Heiden , Albert Dörnchen and other unknown people and whose activities consisted of news that they secretly overheard from the Moscow broadcaster to retransmit orally. Since Ingelöf was declared unworthy of defense , he was not drafted into the Wehrmacht .

After the war ended in 1945

Despite the order issued in April 1945 to leave the city, compliance with which the SA controlled, he hid with his wife and 34 other people in a residential building near the Bärenhütte glassworks . According to him, only 74 of the 16,000 inhabitants remained in the city.

After the Red Army marched into Weißwasser on April 17th, 1945, Ingelöf was appointed mayor on April 24th by the Soviet commander Davtschenko and moved into his domicile in what was then Karlsstrasse .

Ingelöf worked as mayor until 1946 , then until 1948 as a training officer for the district board of the FDGB Niesky and then from 1949 to 1951 as personnel manager at the Annahütte glass factory and from 1951 to 1952 as plant manager in Schönborn . Thereupon he was appointed to the SED district leadership Finsterwalde and headed the district party control commission (KPKK) of the SED until 1962 . In 1969 Ingelöf returned with his wife to Weißwasser, where he was buried after his death.

Awards

literature

  • Trailblazer - from the life of anti-fascist resistance fighters in the Weißwasser district. Bautzen 1988. Editor: Commission for Research into the History of the Local Labor Movement; Traditional commission of the SED's Weißwasser district management

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personal data
SURNAME Ingelöf, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (USPD, KPD, SED) and resistance fighters
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1972
Place of death White water