Kurt Plener

Kurt Plener (born December 31, 1905 in Berlin , † July 11, 1988 in Dortmund ) was a German communist sports activist.

Life

Plener, son of a working-class family, joined the Leninbund , a left-wing split from the KPD , when he was 21 . In 1927 he switched to the KPD and in 1929 became secretary of the Rote Sport-Internationale (RSI). After the seizure of the Nazi regime he headed from 1933 illegal work in Berlin and was therefore sought a warrant. In 1934 he went into exile in Denmark and worked for the RSI in Copenhagen until 1935 . Afterwards he was secretary of the campaign against the Olympic Games in Berlin in Parisactive. In 1936 Plener was active in Barcelona for the planned Counter-Olympiad, but was later excluded from the KPD because of connections to Willi Münzenberg . From 1938 Plener was secretary of the Aid Committee for Republican Spain in Paris. After the outbreak of the war he was interned like many German exiles in 1939, after which he worked in the Resistance from 1940 . Around 1943/1944 he was refused membership in CALPO in Lyon , but he later worked for the Free Germany Movement in southern France. Plener returned to Germany in 1947 and worked as a journalist. He died in Dortmund in 1988.

Kurt Plener was married to Marie-Luise Plener , a German communist and Resistance activist. Their daughter Ulla Plener was born in Berlin in 1933, grew up in exile in the Soviet Union and is a historian .

literature

• Ulla Plener (ed.): “I don't regret my life.” Marie-Luise Plener-Huber - the life story of an idealist. Nora Verlag, Berlin