Kurt Krautter

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Kurt Krautter (born November 27, 1904 in Berlin ; † June 18, 1978 ) was a German KPD functionary and judge in the GDR.

Life and activity

Krautter was the son of a carpenter . He learned the craft of furrier .

Krautter began to be active in left-wing youth organizations early on: in 1918 he joined the youth workers. In 1922 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJD).

In 1924 Krauter became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). From 1931 to 1932 he was an intern at the RGI in Moscow . In 1932 he returned to Germany, where he became a full-time secretary in the Reich Committee of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO).

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Krautter began to work in the communist underground against the new regime. In September 1933 he was briefly imprisoned. After his release, he worked under Emil Pietzuch in a reconnaissance and sabotage group that was supposed to weaken Germany through acts of diversion and sabotage in the event of possible acts of war with the Soviet Union .

From spring to late summer 1936 Krautter was political leader of the Prague emigration, then political leader in Teplice . As a supposed supporter of Willi Munzenberg, the KPD cadre commission refused to allow him to fight on the side of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War .

In March 1937 Krautter went to Denmark and worked on the illegal magazine Breve fra Tyskland (letters from Germany). Imprisoned in June 1940, he was extradited to Germany two months later and sentenced to 15 years in prison. From 1943 he was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp .

In July 1945 Krautter returned to Berlin. He initially worked as a conductor and personnel clerk at BVG . He also became chairman of the KPD's general works group at the BVG.

From the end of 1946 to December 1947, Krautter was a consultant in the SED state management in Greater Berlin , then from January 1948 again a clerk in the auditing department of the BVG.

After participating in a course for people's judges, Krautter became an interrogation and detention judge at the Berlin-Mitte district court. In 1952 he was appointed district judge. In this position he worked almost exclusively as a judge for the Ministry of State Security (MfS) at the Berlin-Mitte district court . In 1975 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

family

Krautter was married to Edith Donat , b. Szana (1904–1990), director and planner of the children's home

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The secret of Edith's suitcase. In: Berlin Week . Johannisthal, June 17, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Krautter, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political functionary (KPD) and judge
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1978