Walter kitchen master

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Stumbling stone in front of the house, Sächsische Strasse 63a, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Walter Küchenmeister (born January 9, 1897 in Waldheim ; † May 13, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was an iron turner , journalist , editor and writer. He was a resistance fighter ( Rote Kapelle ) in the Third Reich .

Life

Walter Küchenmeister was already politically active in the union during his training as a lathe operator. From 1917 he was a seaman in the Imperial Navy and later as a member of the Sailors 'Council on the SMS Prinzregent Luitpold in the Kiel sailors' uprising. In November 1918 he first joined the SPD and in 1920 the KPD . From 1921 he worked as an editor for various KPD newspapers in Westphalia . After his expulsion from the KPD in 1926, he worked as a freelance writer.

Walter Küchenmeister married Anna Auguste Lasnowski in Ahlen in 1926 and moved with her and their son Rainer to Berlin in 1928 , where Claus was born a short time later. In 1933/1934 Walter Küchenmeister was temporarily imprisoned in the Sonnenburg concentration camp . From 1935 he worked with Werner Dissel on the resistance newspaper Wille zum Reich . In the same year he met Harro Schulze-Boysen and the sculptor Kurt Schumacher and joined their resistance group. He participated in the production of leaflets and political training for students. Because of a tuberculosis disease, he went to the sanatorium in Leysin , Switzerland, for a cure in 1939 and 1940, and through Wolfgang Langhoff sought contact with KPD functionaries. From Easter 1939, this resulted in a regular exchange of information with the KPD section leadership with Bruno Goldhammer and Fritz Sperling , whose head at that time was Hans Teubner .

After his return he was active again in the resistance. He was arrested on September 16, 1942, sentenced to death on February 6, 1943 for preparation for high treason and beheaded with a guillotine on May 13 of the same year in Berlin-Plötzensee .

Honors

  • A painting by Carl Baumann survived war and terror in a studio of the Akademie der Künste, where his resistance circles had often met: Rote Kapelle Berlin (1941) tempera on nettle, 79 × 99 cm in the Westphalian State Museum KuK Münster
  • In 1975 a street in Oranienburg was named in honor of Walter Küchenmeister. This street renaming was reversed in 1997. The street now bears the name of an SA man again.
  • In front of his last house in the Sächsisches Palais (Sächsische Strasse 63a) in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , a stumbling block was laid on October 13, 2010 by students from the Robert Jungk High School .

literature

  • Elfriede Paul : A consulting room in the Red Chapel ; Military publishing house: Berlin 1981
  • Detected?  : the {Gestapo-Album zur Roten Kapelle}, Regina Griebel, Marlies Coburger, Heinrich Scheel , - Halle / S., Audioscop, 1992,
  • Stefan Roloff (Ed.), Mario Vigl: The "Red Chapel", Ullstein Verlag: 2004, ISBN 3-548-36669-4
  • Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as anti-fascist resistance. - with an introduction by Heinrich Scheel. Results Publisher: Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0
  • Hans Teubner : Country of Exile Switzerland 1933–1945. Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1975
  • Luise Kraushaar : German resistance fighters 1933 to 1945. Berlin 1970 Volume 1, p. 539ff

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Head chef, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldheim
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1943
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee