Karl Sattler (politician, 1896)

Karl Sattler (born January 28, 1896 in Mainz ; † 1944 or 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ) was a German machinist and politician (KPD).

Live and act

Sattler, a trained machine fitter, began to get involved in the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) after the First World War . From 1930 to July 1932 he was a member of the Berlin Reichstag as a member of his party for constituency 20 (Cologne-Aachen). During the election campaign, his political opponents charged him with his previous convictions for theft . He was also a member of the city council in his hometown of Cologne for many years and local editor of the Cologne KPD newspaper Sozialistische Republik .

After the National Socialist " seizure of power ", Sattler was imprisoned from February 1933 to April 1934 and again from June 1936. In March 1937 he was sentenced by the Hamm Higher Regional Court for “preparation for high treason ” to four and a half years in prison and three years of loss of honor . After his release from Siegburg prison , Sattler was under police surveillance. On August 22nd, 1944, he was arrested again in the " Operation Grid ". Sattler died under unknown circumstances in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; the date of death May 8, 1945 was judicially set in 1950.

Commemoration

Memorial plaques on the Reichstag

Memorial plaque in the Spanish building of the Cologne City Hall

Since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Sattler near the Reichstag in Berlin . In the Spanish building of the Cologne City Hall there is a memorial plaque for the Cologne city councilors who were victims of the National Socialist regime.

literature

Sattler, Karl . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

Karl Sattler in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

^ Gerhard Brunn: Social Democracy in Cologne , 1986, p. 166.
↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 480.

personal data
SURNAME	Sattler, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German machinist and politician (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	January 28, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mainz
DATE OF DEATH	1944 or 1945
Place of death	Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

[1] Gerhard Brunn: Social Democracy in Cologne , 1986, p. 166.

[2] Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 480.