Karl Tuttas

Karl Tuttas (born October 24, 1903 in Horst-Emscher , † October 18, 1978 in Fulda ) was a German KPD functionary and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Tutas, son of a working-class family, was himself a farm worker and worked as a miner on various mines in Germany from the beginning of 1920 to April 1931 . In 1921 he joined the Communist Youth of Germany (KJD) and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1931 he became district manager in Gelsenkirchen . As a member of the AM apparatus of the KPD, he also kept in touch with the Young National Federation headed by Hans Ebeling . In 1933/34 he was under the code name Alber Kursant at the Comintern Military Political School in Moscow . In August 1934 Tuttas returned to Germany. He supported the illegal work under Heinrich Wiatrek as head of the defense apparatus (code name Ludwig ) in the Lower Rhine district .

On May 27, 1935, he was arrested in Düsseldorf. Tuttas attempted suicide after being severely mistreated in the police prison. He threw himself over the banister and suffered severe head injuries and a broken lower leg. On September 7, 1936, he was sentenced to ten years in prison by the People's Court in proceedings with Hans Israel and others and held in the prisons in Lüttringhausen , Wolfenbüttel, Celle and Hameln until 1945 .

In June 1945 he returned to Gelsenkirchen, later he was a member in Herne and worked there as a functionary for the KPD. In 1969 he joined the German Communist Party . He lived in Frankfurt am Main and later with his wife Rosa in Gersfeld .

publication

• One of those. Memories. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle-Leipzig 1980.

literature

• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online [accessed January 6, 2013]).