Kurt Kreutz

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Kurt Willy Kreutz (born April 16, 1914 in Hamburg , † 1974 in Copenhagen ) was a German communist . In Denmark he took an active part in the resistance against National Socialism .

Life

The trained printer Kreutz was a member of the Red Young Front and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1929 . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he took part in the communist resistance. In October 1933 he emigrated to Denmark. He stayed illegally in Denmark until he was recognized as a refugee from the Red Aid in March 1936. However, the Danish authorities suspected him - and rightly - of having played a central role in the activities of the KPD from 1933 to 1936. From 1936 to the beginning of 1938 Kreutz was an employee (code name “Ralf”) of Kurt Granzow , who headed the defense at the “North Section” of the KPD based in Copenhagen. Kreutz stayed in Sweden from November 1936 to January 1937 . In 1938 he received a work permit as a typographer in Denmark . In June 1941 he went underground. Kreutz was one of the few German communists who saw the end of the occupation of Denmark in freedom. He was a member of the illegal organization of the KPD in Denmark and actively participated in the resistance until the liberation of Denmark. Together with the communists Willi Adam , Otto Brenzel , Alfred Drögemüller , Ernst Pudlich , Ferdinand Schindler , Max Spangenberg , Karl Thurm , Waldemar Verner and Karl and Else Winkel, he formed the core of the "Free Germany" movement in Denmark.

Kreutz stayed in Denmark after the liberation and became a Danish citizen in 1953. He died in Copenhagen in 1974.

literature

  • Jens Jackie: “Deres søn kan godt days hovedet under the poor.” The tyske emigrant Kurt Kreutz, the blev dansk typographer fortæller om nazismens gennembrud . In: Land og Folk , 10./11. May 1970, p. 9f.
  • Michael F. Scholz : Would you like some Scandinavian experience? Post-exile and remigration. The former KPD emigrants in Scandinavia and their further fate in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07651-4 , pp. 34 and 303.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Kaufmann: The KPD's intelligence service 1919–1937 . Dietz, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-320-01817-5 , p. 398.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Schumann (Ed.): Germany in the Second World War . Volume 5: The collapse of the defensive strategy of Hitler's fascism on all fronts (January to August 1944) . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984, p. 328.
personal data
SURNAME Kreutz, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreutz, Kurt Willy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter in Denmark
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 1974
Place of death Copenhagen