Karl Olbrysch

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Karl Olbrysch (born November 24, 1902 in Essen-Katernberg , † July 2, 1940 on the Atlantic ) was a German miner and politician (KPD).

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Stumbling block in front of the house, Goltzstrasse 13, in Berlin-Schöneberg

Karl Olbrysch was a trained miner. From 1919 he was politically organized, from 1920 he belonged to the trade union. In 1921 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). For this he worked for a few years in Hamburg , where he was employed in the youth organization of his party and as agitprop head of the Wasserkante district management. He later moved to Berlin . In 1929 Olbrysch became a city councilor in Berlin for his party. At that time he went on a training trip to Moscow and stayed in Austria on behalf of his party. In 1931 he was imprisoned for three months. 1932 moved Olbyrsch as a delegate for the KPD in the Reichstag one. At that time he also became head of organization of the KPD in Berlin and worked in the apparatus of the Central Committee .

After the Reichstag fire in February 1933, Olbrysch was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison. According to a source, he spent another year in a concentration camp after being detained . Another source states that he was spared the concentration camp because he was “committed to the Gestapo ”. After his release, he emigrated to Prague - according to the latter source, the Gestapo now considered him to be a "relapse".

In Prague he reported the (alleged) circumstances of his release to his party and was expelled from the KPD in 1938. Then he went to Great Britain . In 1940, Olbrysch and his girlfriend were interned by the British as a citizen of a hostile nation . In the same year, the two, like thousands of other German citizens in Great Britain, were to be brought to Canada for easier custody . During the transfer of the internees, the ship - the Arandora Star - was sunk by the German submarine U 47 , whereby Olbrysch and his partner drowned.

In Berlin-Schöneberg , Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block for Karl Olbrysch.

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  1. ↑ Richard Dove: Totally Un-English? Britain's Internment of "Enemy Aliens" in World War II , 2005, p. 176.
  2. ↑ Lutz Niethammer / Karin Hartewig / Harry Sein: The "cleansed" anti-fascism. The SED and the Red Kapos von Buchenwald , 1994, p. 264.
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SURNAME Olbrysch, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Essen-Katernberg
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 1940
Place of death on the Atlantic