Walter Laue
Walter Laue (born January 17, 1905 , † February 22, 1960 ) was a German communist , former prisoner in the Esterwegen and Buchenwald concentration camps and head of a post office directorate .
Life dates
Laue joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) as a young man and was active against the emerging fascism . For continuing this work illegally , he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1934 and sentenced by a court to a sentence in the Waldheim prison. In 1937 he was transferred to the Esterwegen concentration camp. From 1938 to 1945 he was interned in Buchenwald concentration camp. Here he worked with Construction Command I in the quarry and in the warehouse's effects room.
After liberation from Nazi rule in 1945, Laue became an employee of the economy, postal and telecommunications sector in the SED district administration in Leipzig . From 1952 he was the head of the Leipzig Oberpostdirektion.
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinz Koch / Udo Wohlfeld: The German beech forest committee. The period from 1945 to 1958 , Weimar 2010, p. 185, ISBN 3-935275-14-5
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| SURNAME | Laue, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist resistance fighter and political concentration camp prisoner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1905 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1960 |