Karl Wagner (politician, 1891)

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Karl Wagner (born May 25, 1891 in Voigtstedt ; † December 25, 1965 ) was a German communist and opponent of National Socialism .

Life

Wagner was born into a working class family. He was involved in the November Revolution of 1918 in Germany and the violent clashes of February 1919 in Hamburg . Wagner stayed in Hamburg until 1920. Here he was employed by the Altona railway police . Wagner then went to Magdeburg , where he joined the KPD in 1923 and became head of a KPD district. From 1924 he worked together with his party comrade Wilhelm Bahnik in the KPD's illegal news apparatus . After Bahnik's arrest in 1925, Wagner took over management.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Wagner continued his work, again in collaboration with Bahnik, until 1935. He worked in Magdeburg for the company reporter apparatus, which worked for the Soviet secret service and was part of the KPD intelligence service. He lived at Mittagstrasse 34 in Magdeburg's Neue Neustadt district . Plumber was specified as the occupation . 1935 Wagner, due to a treason, was arrested in November 1936 by the People's Court in Berlin to 8 years prison sentenced. He served his sentence in the Roter Ochse prison in Halle (Saale) . On September 27, 1943, the day he was released, he was arrested by the Magdeburg Gestapo and, after seven weeks of protective custody in the Magdeburg police prison, deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp . Here he belonged to the illegal KPD camp leadership.

After his liberation in 1945 he returned to Magdeburg. In June 1945 he and Oskar Lehmann re-founded the local group of the KPD in Magdeburg-Neue Neustadt . From 1946 to 1949 he belonged to the criminal police , from 1949 to 1955 to the main administration for the protection of the national economy and the Ministry for State Security of the GDR (MfS).

After a serious illness, he died on December 25, 1965.

Honors

Wagner received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and the " Medal for Fighters Against Fascism ". In 1979 a street in Magdeburg was named " Karl-Wagner-Straße " in his honor. As early as 1976, a newly built polytechnic high school in Magdeburg's Neustädter Feld POS was christened “Karl Wagner”. After the end of the GDR, both were renamed.

literature

  • Ingelore Buchholz , What Magdeburg street names tell , approx. 1983, Ed. SED -Stadtleitung Magdeburg.
  • Joachim Scherrieble (ed.), Edited by Daniel Bohse, Alexander Sperk: The Red Ox - Halle (Saale) - Political Justice 1933–1945 / 1945–1989 , Christoph-Links Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-480 -8 , p. 121.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Viebig, Daniel Bohse, Justice in National Socialism. About crimes in the name of the German people. Saxony-Anhalt , 2015, ISBN 978-3-9813459-0-2 , page 55
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and opponent of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Voigtstedt
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1965