Karol Śliwka

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Karol Śliwka (born March 23, 1894 in Bystritz , † March 19, 1943 in Mauthausen concentration camp ) was a Czechoslovak communist politician of Polish nationality.

Life

Śliwka participated in the First World War in part and fell into Russian captivity . In 1917 he joined the Bolshevik party . Since 1921 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KPTsch). From 1925 to 1938 he was a member of the National Assembly for the Communists and one of two representatives of the Polish minority as a whole.

Śliwka, together with Fryderyk Kraus (1900–1942) and Paweł Klus (1890–1943), propagated the cooperation of Czech, Polish and German communists in the Cieszyn region . Because of its policy, which emphasized the principles of proletarian internationalism and the equality of nationalities , the CPC was most popular in the areas inhabited by the Polish population. Śliwka was the editor of the Polish-language newspaper Głos Robotniczy (German workers' voice).

After the Communist Party was banned in 1938, he continued his political work illegally. In 1940 he was arrested by the German occupiers and died in 1943 in Mauthausen concentration camp as a result of years of torture .

literature

  • Józef Chlebowczyk: Karol Śliwka i towarzysze walki. Z dziejów ruchu komunistycznego na Zaolziu . Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe, Krakow 1972.
  • Hans Lemberg et al. (Hrsg.): Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries. Volume IV, 2nd delivery: Sitk – Soko. Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-56824-8 , p. 127.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Chmelař, Emil Ehrlich: The political structure of Czechoslovakia . Orbis, Prague 1926, p. 101.
personal data
SURNAME Śliwka, Karol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak communist, Polish nationality
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bystritz
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1943
Place of death Mauthausen concentration camp