Kurt Sindermann

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Kurt Alfred Sindermann (born April 13, 1904 in Dresden ; † March 30, 1945 in Radeberg ) was a communist and from 1929 to 1933 a member of the Saxon state parliament . He was the brother of the well-known GDR politician Horst Sindermann .

Life

Kurt Sindermann was born as the son of the then well-known Saxon SPD functionary Karl Sindermann . After attending primary school , he completed an apprenticeship as an iron shipbuilder and then worked as a locksmith and as a helmsman on a ship on the Elbe.

At the age of 16, Sindermann first joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ), a little later he became a member of the SPD . It can be assumed that this political conviction initially came from his father, who at the time was the SPD parliamentary group leader in the Saxon People's Chamber . However, his father died in 1922, when Kurt Sindermann was 18 years old. A little later he turned to the Communist Youth of Germany (KJD) and became a member of the KPD .

In 1925 Sindermann became head of the KJVD in East Saxony. He proved himself and was entrusted with the management of the RFB in Eastern Saxony from February to November 1927 . From November 1927 to March 1929 the KPD sent him to Moscow as a student at the International Lenin School .

After his return to Germany he ran for the Saxon state parliament and became its member in the 4th and 5th electoral periods until 1933. After functions in East Saxony, Sindermann became subdistrict head of the KPD in Chemnitz in 1930 and was instrumental in eliminating dissenting KPO groups involved.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, he first headed the illegal KPD in Dresden , and later in the Lower Rhine district. On June 23, 1933 Sindermann was however in Wuppertal arrested on 31 October 1934 by the People's Court to three years in prison convicted. After serving his sentence, Sindermann was not released, but initially imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and later brought to Buchenwald concentration camp . Released due to an amnesty on the 50th birthday of Adolf Hitler, he was arrested again at the beginning of the war on September 1, 1939 and brought back to Buchenwald. From there he was released on January 16, 1940, but repeatedly arrested and interrogated on his return to Dresden.

Anton Saefkow contacted Sindermann in April 1944 and met with him in Dresden.

Sindermann's further life up to his death is described contradictingly. Wilhelm Grothaus , a surviving member of the resistance group around Georg Schumann, incriminated him after the war as an informant for the Gestapo and attributed him to having caused numerous arrests of communists in Saxony. His wife, Anni Sindermann , herself imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp and after the war tried very hard to clarify the fate of her husband, told a KPD investigative commission in the summer of 1945 that her husband was partially unable to cope with the pressure of the Gestapo, but would not have betrayed anyone , but this was done by a former inmate whom he entrusted with details of the illegal KPD work. Gestapo files probably confirm that he was listed as an informant, but that he did not provide any useful information. It seems beyond dispute that Sindermann was shot by the Gestapo in Radeberg at the end of March 1945.

literature

  • Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
  • Carsten Voigt: Kurt Sindermann. As a communist undercover agent in the clutches of the Dresden Gestapo. In: Christine Pieper, Mike Schmeitzner, Gerhard Naser: Brown careers. Dresden perpetrators and actors in National Socialism , Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2012, pp. 92–98.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Hermann: Red Front Fighters Association in Dresden and Eastern Saxony 1924-1929. Chronicle - pictures - documents . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-86583-843-8 , p. 301.
  2. ↑ Ursel Hochmuth: HITLER'S WAR IS NOT OUR WAR! ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dearchiv.de
  3. ↑ Stadtwiki Dresden: Anni Sindermann
personal data
SURNAME Sindermann, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sindermann, Kurt Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon KPD member of the state parliament in the Weimar Republic
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1945
Place of death Radeberg