Karl winemaker

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Karl Winzer is a German resistance fighter against the Nazis , was a prisoner in a concentration camp Aschendorfermoor , Master Builder , Chairman of LPG and VVN - activist .

Life

Winzer was involved in the resistance against the Nazi regime , was in 1935 in " protective custody taken" and a court sentenced to a prison sentence, which he in prison " Red Ox " from Halle (Saale) spent. He was then sent to the Aschendorfer Moor concentration camp .

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, he worked in agriculture and was elected chairman of the agricultural production cooperative (LPG) of Kreischau . Since February 1953 he was a member of the committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters , to which he made his experience available for work on remembrance politics .

literature

  • Elke Reuter, Detlef Hansel: The short life of the VVN from 1947 to 1953: The history of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Soviet Zone and GDR. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-97-4 , p. 584