Michael Kazmierczak

Michael Kazmierczak (born September 18, 1898 in Sokołowo, Posen Province , † November 20, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPD ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

The construction worker Kazmierczak had been unionized since his youth and joined the KPD in March 1919. He was later a member of the KPD district leadership West Saxony and the district leadership of the RFB . From 1930 to 1932 he was a city councilor in Leipzig , and since 1930 also sub-district secretary of the KPD in Riesa . In the autumn of 1932, the Central Committee of the KPD delegated Kazmierczak to study at the International Lenin School in Moscow . Despite the suppression and persecution of the labor movement by the National Socialists , he returned to Germany in July 1933 to take over the leadership of the Reich Courier Service of the KPD. Kazmierczak was arrested on November 18, 1933 and murdered two days later.

Honors

• A street in the Leipzig district of Gohlis has been named after him since August 1945 .

literature

• Luise Kraushaar (Ed.): German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 2. Dietz, Berlin 1970, pp. 504f.
• Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon . Volume 4 [K]. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89626-354-4 , p. 45.
• Kaczmierczak, Michael . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

• Dieter Kürschner: Michael Kazmierczak (1898–1933) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .