Kurt Weck

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Kurt Weck (born November 20, 1892 in Werdau ; † 1959 ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and activity

During the time of the Weimar Republic , Weck was a trained metalworker (milling cutter), secretary of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Zwickau and a social democratic city councilor in Zwickau.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Weck fled to Czechoslovakia , where he joined the organization of SOPADE , the SPD abroad. For this he took on tasks as a base manager and head of an emigre's home in Eibenberg before he was appointed border secretary of SOPADE in Karlsbad in 1935 .

Weck's son Gerhard Weck (* 1913) stayed in Germany in 1933. After a temporary imprisonment in the Sachsenburg concentration camp from spring 1933 to Easter 1934, he acted as a liaison between the social democratic party executive who had emigrated to Prague and the Saxon social democrats. Weck's wife was arrested on her return to Germany and committed suicide in 1934 in the Zwickau police prison.

In 1938, Weck was given the task of handling social democratic refugee aid in Czechoslovakia. He then emigrated to Sweden due to the annexation of the Sudeten areas by National Socialist Germany . In 1940 he became a member of the board of directors of the Swedish branch of SOPADE in Stockholm .

After his emigration, Weck was classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialists. In 1939 his German citizenship was revoked and his expatriation was announced in the Reichsanzeiger . In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles - where Weck was mistakenly suspected - would be able to locate special SS commandos of the occupying forces with special priority from the German Wehrmacht should be made and arrested.

literature

  • Marlis Buchholz: The party executive of the SPD in exile , 1995, p. Xxxiv.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael hepp / Hans Georg Lehmann: The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger , 1985, p. 41
  2. ^ Entry on Kurt Weck on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London)
personal data
SURNAME Wake up, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Werdau
DATE OF DEATH 1959