Karl Poker

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Karl Pokern (born November 27, 1895 in Fischhausen ; died June 22, 1933 in Berlin-Köpenick ), was a German butcher, worker athlete and victim of the Köpenick Blood Week .

Life

Karl Pokern was a butcher by trade . As a water sports enthusiast, he was a member of the Fichte workers' sports club . He was a member of the Red Aid of Germany and belonged to the Red Front Fighters League , which earned him the nickname "Red Karl".

On June 21, 1933, he was abducted from his apartment by the SA . Karl Pokern was severely tortured in the SA home “Müggelseedamm” and in the hayloft of the SA storm bar “Demuth” at 23 Elisabethstrasse and then shot in the Köpenick district court , the Köpenick SA headquarters. "On the night of June 22-23, 1933, the local court prison brought the victims murdered there and sewn into sacks, including those from Essen, Stelling and Poker, to the Wendenschloss SA restaurant in a truck from the Ewald company." Memorial for the victims of the “Köpenick Blood Week June 1933”. On July 1 and 2, 1933, sewn into sacks in the Dahme, the mutilated corpses of Johannes Stelling , Paul von Essen and Karl Pokern were found.

Grave site (2013)

Karl Pokern was buried in the Christophorus cemetery with the sympathy of many people. A friend of poker, Bruno Berger, reported as a witness in 1950 about SA man Beyer: “Look for a kute (hole in the ground) right away. You are the next. ”On February 12, 1934, the Central Public Prosecutor's Office put down the“ proceedings in the Stelling , von Essen , Pokern und Pohle ” death investigation .

The pipe fitter Wilhelm Beyer , born on March 10, 1886, was sentenced to death in the Plönzke trial because he “made a decisive contribution to the cruel death of poker”. The judgment was carried out on February 20, 1951 in Frankfurt (Oder) .

Commemoration

literature

  • Judgment of the 4th Large Criminal Chamber in the Plönzke u. a. (Köpenick Blood Week) 1933 . Berlin Regional Court, Berlin 1950
  • Rudolf Hirsch : The Koepenick Blood Week. From the courtroom (pdf, 20.3 MB) reports on the “Trial against Plönzke and others” in the Daily Rundschau from June 6th to July 20th, 1950.
  • Kurt Werner, Karl Heinz Biernat: The Köpenicker Blood Week June 1933 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1958. (47 pages)
    • Kurt Werner, Karl Heinz Biernat: The Köpenicker blood week June 1933 with an appendix of the victims . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1960. (103 pages)
  • Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann: Resistance in Köpenick and Treptow . German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin 2010, pp. 29, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 40, 46. (= Series of publications on the resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Volume 9) ISBN 3-926082-03-8 . Digitized version (photography page 36)
  • Stefan Hördler (Hrsg.): SA-Terror as security of rule: “Köpenicker Blutwoche” and public violence under National Socialism . Metropol, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86331-133-9 .
  • Karl Poker . In: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon . Volume 6. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2004, p. 72. ISBN 3-89626-356-0
  • Herbert Mayer: A reminder to the Köpenick blood week . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 6, 1998, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 86-88 ( luise-berlin.de ).

Web links

Commons : Karl Pokern  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Hirsch, p. 16.
  2. ^ Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann, p. 32.
  3. ^ Statement by Bruno Berger 1950.
  4. ↑ Friedpark. Christophorus Cemetery.
  5. ↑ “Communist Kalle”. (Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann, p. 36.)
  6. ↑ In the Berlin address books 1932 and 1933 no entry in his name could be found. Only in 1932 there was a painter "Fritz Poker".
  7. ↑ Heinrich Wilhelm Wörmannm, p. 40
  8. ↑ today Pohlestraße 13, named after the victim of the Köpenick blood week Paul Pohle.
  9. ^ " Walter Majchrzak , Fritz Otto, Paul Pohle , Karl Pokern, Josef and Paul Spitzer , Paul Wilczoch and Alfred Pusch died as a result of the torture by the SA men in the" Demuth " storm bar . Karl Pokern was horribly beaten up by mistreatment and finally shot in the district court prison. "(Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann, p. 31.)
  10. ↑ Serial No. 1293a. Berlin Regional Court on July 19, 1950. GDR justice and Nazi crimes. Volume VI, p. 276.
  11. ↑ Kurt Werner, Karl Heinz Biernat (1960), p. 35.
  12. ↑ “The funeral of the non-party athlete Karl Pokern, who was murdered in the most cruel way during the Koepenick Blood Week, turned into an impressive protest against the Nazi terror that we helped to prepare. About three hundred people from all walks of life took part, although SA men in uniform loitered in front of the cemetery and photographed the participants. The costs of the funeral were raised by collecting money. "(Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmannm, p. 46.)
  13. ↑ Rudolf Hirsch, p. 22.
  14. ↑ Stefan Hördler, p. 73.
  15. ↑ Rudolf Hirsch, p. 22.
  16. ^ Karl-Pokern-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  17. ↑ Signature 12 S 358: Berlin State Library and Signature D II 15: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial.
personal data
SURNAME Poker, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German butcher, worker athlete and victim of the Köpenick blood week
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Fischhausen
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1933
Place of death Berlin-Koepenick