Kurt Lorenz (typesetter)

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Kurt Walter Lorenz (born December 18, 1903 in Dresden , † November 20, 1947 in London ) was a German typesetter and employee of the SPD .

Life

Lorenz was born as the son of Ernst and Anna Lorenz. The parents were both typesetters and belonged to the SPD. He trained as a typesetter and worked as a typesetter from 1922 to 1924. In 1922 he joined the SPD. In 1924 he married Charlotte Heide. In the same year he became an employee of the Dresdner Volkszeitung . From 1930 to 1933 he was managing director of the Oberschlesisches Volksblatt in Gleiwitz .

In March 1933 Lorenz emigrated to Czechoslovakia . There he worked with the production of the Germany reports , transmitted information for the Sopade in Prague and was responsible for the production of illegal material. In 1937 he fled to London via Paris . The expatriation followed on November 18, 1938 .

Lorenz lived in London until his death in 1947 and worked as a printer . He was responsible for the technical production of Wilhelm Sander's Socialist Communications , which were printed in his office in London and first appeared in January 1940. He was one of the founders of the publishing company " Fight for Freedom Editorial and Publishing Services, Ltd.". This was created with the support of leading Labor politicians and national and international trade unionists in January 1942 as the journalistic mouthpiece of the Vansittartists in exile in Germany. With Fritz Bieligk , Curt Geyer , Carl Herz , Walter Loeb and Bernhard Menne , he signed a manifesto on March 2, 1942, that the social democratic labor movement was complicit in the rise of National Socialism and that there was no significant opposition in Germany. As a result, he was expelled from the national group of German trade unionists in June 1942. At the end of 1943 he and Carl Herz resigned from the Fight for Freedom in protest against the radical policy on Germany.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933-1945 Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life. Saur, Munich 1980, p. 400.
  2. ^ "Sozialistische Mitteilungen", No. 39 of July 1, 1942
personal data
SURNAME Lorenz, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lorenz, Kurt Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German typesetter and member of the SPD
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1947
Place of death London