Karl Kunger

Karl Kunger (born February 2, 1901 in Berlin , † June 18, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a worker , KPD member and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

As a teenager, Kunger joined the communist movement. After attending elementary school , he worked as an unskilled worker in a Lichtenberg company. Here he campaigned for the support of political prisoners and striking workers. From 1935 to 1938 he smuggled people at risk across the Czechoslovakian border. A political criminal case initiated against him in 1935 was dropped due to a lack of evidence. From 1937 he worked in the AEG apparatus factory in Berlin-Oberschöneweide , where he headed an illegal communist cell, which, among other things, made contact with the groups around Robert Uhrig and Herbert Baum . After the start of the Second World War , the company group established contacts with French prisoners of war and foreign forced laborers, for whom additional food and clothing were collected. Political discussions were also held together. Later, Kunger was mainly active in Berlin-Friedrichshain and Berlin-Lichtenberg .

In September 1942 he was arrested and taken to Plötzensee prison. Six months later he was sentenced to death and executed with a guillotine .

Memorial plaque for Karl Kunger

Honors

In 1962 the GDR renamed the former Graetzstraße in Berlin-Alt-Treptow after him. In the successor company of the AEG in Treptow, the VEB EAW Berlin-Treptow , the operational organization of the SED had set up a traditional cabinet that honored the work of the resistance group around Karl Kunger. In addition, the company vocational school of this plant was given the honorary name Karl Kunger .

On the former home of Karl Kunger at Krossener Strasse 27 , the Friedrichshain district administration had a memorial plaque affixed with the following inscription:

“The anti-fascist resistance fighter Karl Kunger, nee. on February 2, 1901. Murdered by the fascists on June 18, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee. Honor his memory. "

Web links

Photo of the plaque on flickr

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Hans Maur : Memorials of the workers' movement in Berlin-Friedrichshain , ed. by the district management of the SED, district commission for researching the history of the local labor movement in cooperation with the district commission for researching the history of the local labor movement at the Berlin-Friedrichshain district management of the SED, 1981; P. 49
^ Karl-Kunger-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )

personal data
SURNAME	Kunger, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German worker, KPD member, resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	February 2, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	June 18, 1943
Place of death	Berlin-Plötzensee

[Gedenkstätten-1] A ^b ^c ^d Hans Maur : Memorials of the workers' movement in Berlin-Friedrichshain , ed. by the district management of the SED, district commission for researching the history of the local labor movement in cooperation with the district commission for researching the history of the local labor movement at the Berlin-Friedrichshain district management of the SED, 1981; P. 49

[2] Karl-Kunger-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )