Paul Kreft

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Paul Kreft (born February 21, 1893 in Wertheim , West Prussia , † December 10, 1944 in Vaihingen an der Enz ) was a German politician ( KPD ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Kreft attended elementary school in Sopot and worked as a construction and shipyard worker in Gdansk. From November 1917 to May 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . In 1920 he joined the KPD. Kreft headed the KPD's local group Sopot from 1924 to 1927 and was also a city councilor there from 1924 to 1933. On November 13, 1927 and November 16, 1930 he was elected to the People's Day of Danzig (until 1933). Under Anton Plenikowski Kreft was for a time the organ leader and cashier of the Gdansk district leadership of the KPD. In June 1933 he was seven months in prison and the beginning of 1934 to two years and four months ' imprisonment convicted. He was released in September 1936.

In June 1937 Kreft emigrated to Denmark and was recognized as a political refugee. He moved to Fredericia in Jutland , where he was also followed by his wife and two sons. Kreft continued to work for the KPD even in exile and had close contact with Conrad Blenkle , Otto Brenzel , Heinrich Wiatrek and Walter Weidauer . At times he headed the KPD group in Jutland .

After the German invasion of Denmark and the occupation of Denmark by the Wehrmacht , Kreft was arrested by the Danish police on July 26, 1940 in Copenhagen and interned in the Horserød camp. In August 1941 he was extradited to Germany. In the “ Mannbar criminal case ”, the Gestapo control center in Hamburg arrested Kreft and other emigrants transferred from Denmark, including Wilhelm Grünert , Karola Kern and Liselotte Schlachcis . The named had been active in the section leadership north of the KPD as a leader or employee.

On December 11, 1942, Kreft was sentenced to four years in prison by the Second Criminal Senate of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg. First Kreft was imprisoned in Fuhlsbüttel , then from April 1943 in the Rendsburg prison and from April 1944 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison. On June 23, 1944, he was transferred from there to the Vaihingen an der Enz prison . Kreft died here on December 10, 1944 from the consequences of imprisonment.

literature

  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdL The end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-77005-189-0 , p. 86.
  • Kreft, Paul . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 494.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volkstag Danzig in the BIOWEIL database ( memento of the original from August 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hsr-trans.zhsf.uni-koeln.de
  2. ↑ Margot Pikarski, Elke Warning (ed.): Gestapo reports on the anti-fascist resistance struggle of the Communist Party from 1933 to 1945 . Volume 2: September 1939 to August 1943 . Dietz, Berlin 1989, pp. 69f.
personal data
SURNAME Kreft, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Wertheim
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1944
Place of death Vaihingen an der Enz