Kurt Müller (resistance fighter)

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Memorial plaque , Frankfurter Allee 233, in Berlin-Lichtenberg

Kurt Müller (born February 2, 1903 in Berlin ; † June 26, 1944 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison ) was a German carpenter and resistance fighter of the European Union group . Kurt Müller was a half-brother of Ilse Stöbe .

Life

Kurt Müller was arrested and beaten during an attack by the SA in 1933 , which broke his jaw. He supported his sister and her fiancé Rudolf Herrnstadt in their resistance work with logistical assistance and had contact with the organizational remnants of the KPD underground organization. When his sister and then his mother were arrested in September 1942, he went into hiding and lived in various pensions and arbours . He was able to maintain his contacts with the communists as well as with bourgeois resistance groups. He provided the KPD with basic materials on the establishment of illegal company groups and the disruption of war production to Georg Groscurth and motivated him to actively work in the resistance. Müller took part in several meetings and discussions of the European Union and supported them in the reproduction of pamphlets. He also found accommodation for those persecuted for political and racist reasons.

Because he was trying to save the Jewish Wolf family, he was caught in the wave of arrests in September 1943 that affected Groscurth, Havemann , Rentsch and Richter . He was beaten half-blind during the torture of the Gestapo in Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse .

The second main trial of the People's Court concerning the European Union in April 1944 was conducted against Kurt Müller and others and Kurt Müller was ultimately sentenced to death.

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 1, Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1970, page 657ff
  • Luise Kraushaar: Berlin Communists in the Fight Against Fascism 1936–1942. Robert Uhrig and comrades ; Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1980
  • Simone Hannemann: Robert Havemann and the "European Union" resistance group. A representation of the events and their interpretation after 1945. Berlin 2001 ISBN 3980492052
  • Manfred Wilke , Werner Theuer: The proof of treason cannot be produced. Robert Havemann and the European Union resistance group In: Germany Archive, Cologne, 32nd year 1999 issue 6, pp. 899–912
  • Friedrich Christian Delius : My year as a murderer. Roman Rowohlt, Berlin 2004 ISBN 3871344583 ; TB 2006 Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006 ISBN 3499239329 (literary treatment of the life of Anneliese Groscurth)
  • Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as anti-fascist resistance ; Results Publisher: Hamburg 1986
  • Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The “other” capital of the Reich: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Lukas-Verlag: Berlin 2007; Page 400ff ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1

Web links

Commons : Kurt Müller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Review: Parricide of a Hero ( Memento from March 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1944
Place of death Brandenburg