Kurt Preilipper
* 1905

Kurt Preilipper, b. 8.6.1905, murdered in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp on 1.10.1937

Marienthaler Straße 163, at the house entrance (Marienthaler Straße 151)

Kurt Preilipper‘s parents were Rudolf and Margarethe, née Wehnelt. He had two younger siblings, Elsa, b. 12.25.1911, and Walter, b. 3.12.1908. He himself was born on 8.6.1905.

Kurt Preilipper‘s grandfather August owned a printing shop at Admiralitätsstrasse 16, which he supposedly joined. Kurt Preilipper belonged to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and was engaged as a unionist, in worker sports, and in the “Proletarian League for Nudist Culture.” As a member of – the illegal – “Red Fighters” Group he participated actively in the antifascist resistance, producing pamphlets in his grandfather’s print shop, among other things. At the time of his arrest by the Gestapo, he was an assistant in the Löffler & Ockelmann Print Shop on Sachsenstrasse.
On 5 January 1937, Kurt Preilipper, along with his brother Walter, brought his girlfriend to the railroad station in order to get her safely to Switzerland. On the way back from the station, they were arrested. After severe torture – “his hair turned snow white overnight” – Walter was released. Kurt was charged with preparations to commit high treason. He died five days after his arrest in the Kola-Fu [Fuhlsbüttel prison] on 10 January 1937.

Translator: Richard Levy
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