Karl Zimmet
Karl Zimmet (born April 14, 1895 in Regensburg , † March 20, 1969 in Ebersberg ) was a Munich resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Zimmeret, a trained locksmith, joined the KPD shortly after it was founded and was a member of the soldiers' council during the time of the Munich Soviet Republic in 1919 . After the Soviet Republic was crushed, Zimmet had to serve 18 months of imprisonment . He later left the KPD, joined the left-wing Catholic Christian Social Reich Party and temporarily worked as the editor of the newspaper Volksruf .
After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he made his apartment available as a contact point for courier mail for the KPD and the SAPD , and from 1937 began to write and distribute anti-fascist leaflets with Rupert Huber , who also came from the CSRP . Together with other former CSRP and KPD members, Zimmet and Huber later merged into a more solid organization, which from 1943 onwards was called the Anti-Nazi German People's Front (ADV).
After the Gestapo smashed the resistance group Fraternal Cooperation of Prisoners of War (BSW), which worked closely with the ADV, at the end of 1943, Zimmet and most of the other ADV members were arrested in January 1944. In the fall of 1944, the People's Court brought an indictment against Zimmet himself, but the proceedings were dropped because Zimmet was able to successfully simulate a mental illness.
literature
- Wolfgang Benz , Walter H. Pehle (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the German resistance . 2., through Aufl. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-15083-3 , pp. 163-164 and p. 408.
- Michael Rudloff: Christian anti-fascists of the "first hour" in the resistance . In: Scientific journal of the Karl Marx University Leipzig. Social Science Series, Volume 38, 1989, pp. 297-307.
- Allergic to Dachau . In: Die Zeit , No. 48/1966
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zimmer, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | regensburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1969 |
| Place of death | Ebersberg |