Max Kukil

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Max Kukil , until 1950: Max Kukielczynski (born November 10, 1904 in Breslau ; † January 17, 1959 in Bonn ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

education and profession

After attending primary school in Breslau, Kukil completed an apprenticeship as an insurance salesman from 1919 to 1922 and then worked for an insurance company.

From 1928 to 1931 he was a full-time secretary at the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Breslau, and then worked for the SPD until the ban in 1933. He was arrested and interned in several concentration camps. In 1934 he managed to get a job with an insurance company again. From 1935 to 1943 he was branch manager at Gothaer Feuerversicherung . He was in contact with the resistance group around Wilhelm Leuschner and was arrested several times. From 1943 to 1945 he had to do military service and was taken prisoner by the English.

After being released from captivity, Kukil settled in Kiel . In 1953 he moved to Bad Godesberg and again worked full-time for the SPD. In addition, he was part of the personnel appraisal committee for reviewing applicants for officer positions in the newly formed Bundeswehr . Within the SPD, Kukil was one of the critics of the contacts with the mutual aid community of members of the former Waffen-SS (HIAG).

Political party

Kukiel was a member of the Young Socialists before 1919, and of the Socialist Workers' Youth and the SPD since 1919 . In the spring of 1933, Kukil was the SPD's top candidate for the city council election in Breslau.

At the beginning of 1959, the SPD party executive commissioned Kukil to reorganize the East Office , a few days later he suddenly died of heart failure at the age of 55. The GDR State Security scattered speculation published in East German newspapers that Kukil had been poisoned by employees of the East Office.

MP

Kukil was from 1950 until May 1, 1953 Member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein .

literature

  • Biographical Lexicon of Socialism Volume I Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. GmbH Hanover pp. 173–174

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 332 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Buschfort : Parties in the Cold War. Ch. Links Verlag, 2000, ISBN 9783861532262 , p. 229. Limited preview in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Kukil, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kukielczynski, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1959
Place of death Bonn