Karl Kock
Karl Kock (born June 16, 1908 in Hamburg ; † June 26, 1944 in the Hamburg remand prison ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and a victim of fascism .
Life
Kock came from a Hamburg working class family . After attending primary school, he learned the trade of a rubber worker and was employed by the Phoenix Gummi Werke . He was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was active against the emerging National Socialism . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he joined the resistance group “ Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen ”, which supported foreign forced laborers after the outbreak of the war, organized information about what was actually happening in the war and carried out acts of sabotage . When the resistance network around Bästlein was broken up by the Gestapo , Kock was able to go into hiding. After he was searched for with a profile , the family of Paul Dreibrodt and his wife Grete hid him in their apartment. But this hiding place also became known, the Dreibrodts were prosecuted and Kock and others were sentenced to death by the People's Court . The execution of ten death row inmates took place in the remand prison on Holstenglacis.
After the liberation from National Socialism , six of the bodies were found stored in formalin solution in the Kiel Institute of Anatomy . The relatives and friends of a committee of former political prisoners pushed for identification and subsequent burial of the dead. That happened between August 18 and 21, 1947. Jonny Kock , Karl Kock's father, was present and had to look at the severed body of his son. After their cremation in Kiel in September 1947, the corpse of Kock and that of the other murdered people were buried in a grove of honor in the Hamburg-Ohlsdorf cemetery.
Honors
- The pillow stone for Karl Kock is in the third row from the left (seventh stone) in the honor grove of Hamburg resistance fighters at the Hamburg cemetery in Ohlsdorf .
- In Hamburg, a street was named " Karl-Kock-Weg " in honor of Karl Kock
- In memory of Karl Kock, the action artist Gunter Demnig laid two stumbling blocks : in Wilstorfer Straße 4 in front of the Phoenixwerk and at Am Mühlenfeld 107 in Hamburg-Harburg , his last residential address.
literature
- Beate Meyer : The persecution and murder of Hamburg's Jews 1933–1945 , Institute for the History of German Jews, Hamburg 2006
Web links
- Biography Karl Kock at stolpersteine-hamburg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.hamburg.vvn-bda.de/_alt/buch/lesen.htm ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 26, 2011
- ↑ http://www.beirat-fuer-geschichte.de/fileadmin/pdf/band_06/Demokratische_Geschichte_Band_06_Essay11.pdf Retrieved August 26, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kock, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1944 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |