Richard Kucharczyk

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Richard Kucharczyk (born August 26, 1908 in Gleiwitz , † 1985 ) was a German communist . He was a prisoner in the Lichtenburg and Buchenwald concentration camps and participated in the resistance struggle of the international military organization of prisoners.

Life dates

Kucharczyk had learned the profession of plumber after attending school . He was arrested in 1933 and interned in the Emsland camp. He was sentenced to prison for illegal resistance activity and then transferred to the Lichtenburg concentration camp. When it was founded, he came to the Buchenwald concentration camp in July 1937 as a prisoner with the prisoner number 921. Because of his technical knowledge, he was assigned to work on the water and sewage system of the camp. The illegal party activists of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) commissioned him to participate in the production and hiding of hand grenades for the military resistance. Because of his knowledge of Polish , he was able to establish contact with Polish prisoners.

After the liberation from Nazi rule , he became an employee of the Weimar criminal police and an instructor in the German People's Police . In 1949 he was hired as the first full-time employee of the Buchenwald memorial and had to design the honorary grove. He later worked as the head of the pedagogical department and guided groups of people through the memorial.

On December 10, 1985, the Weimar District Court carried out a site inspection of the former Buchenwald concentration camp at the request of the Krefeld District Court. The judicial inspection took place in the presence of judges, public prosecutors and lawyers from the Federal Republic of Germany who were involved in the Krefeld criminal proceedings against the former Buchenwald SS-Stabsscharführer Wolfgang Otto . Wolfgang Otto was charged with participating in the murder of Ernst Thälmann on the night of August 17-18, 1944 . The GDR court inspected the crime scene and made testimony from witnesses the subject of the evidence. In addition, the GDR citizen Richard Kucharczyk, who was a prisoner at the Buchenwald concentration camp at the time of the crime, was heard.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany of September 14, 1958
  2. ^ Heinz Koch / Udo Wohlfeld: The German beech forest committee. The period from 1945 to 1958 , Weimar 2010, p. 183, ISBN 3-935275-14-5
  3. ^ New Germany of December 11, 1985
personal data
SURNAME Kucharczyk, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter and political concentration camp prisoner
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice
DATE OF DEATH 1985