Willi Kutz

Willi Kutz (born July 14, 1904 in Magdeburg , † February 1945 in Berlin-Spandau ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism and a politician of the KPD .

Life

Kutz learned the trade of model maker . In 1922 he joined the Communist Youth of Germany. In 1925 he became a member of the KPD and the Red Front Fighters Association , of which he became head of organization in 1930 for the Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt .

After the National Socialists came to power, he became involved in the resistance. He produced illegal KPD newspapers on a printing machine . Next to the stands he printed The Brown Book , The Young Guard and Prolet . He also kept the connection to the Rot-Sport-Gruppe Magdeburg, whose members he supplied with illegal writings.

On 27 February 1936 he was arrested and later turned into a nine-year prison sentence convicted. He served his imprisonment in institutions in Coswig , Amberg , Papenburg , Sonnenburg and Brandenburg . Most recently he was probably transferred to Berlin-Spandau, where he was murdered.

Honor

The city of Magdeburg named a street in his honor as Kutzstraße .

literature

• Short biographies of Magdeburg resistance fighters , presumably 1976, published by the Commission for Research into the History of the Local Labor Movement at the Magdeburg City Administration of the SED, Working Group on Memories and Biographies, page 31 f.