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Walter Kortz
* 1899

HIER WOHNTE
WALTER KORTZ
JG. 1899
DEPORTIERT
KZ SACHSENHAUSEN
ERMORDET 20.3.1940

Kleiner Pulverteich 18

Hamburg Bezirke

Kleiner Pulverteich 18

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Walter Kortz, born 20 Nov. 1899 in Hamburg, died 20 Mar. 1940 at Sachsenhausen concentration camp

last residential address: Kleiner Pulverteich 18

The worker Walter Kortz was a member of the social-democratic Reichsbanners "Schwarz-Rot-Gold". From 1939 or 1940 he served a sentence as a political prisoner at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he perished on 20 Mar. 1940. A Stolperstein has been laid for him at his last address on the street Kleiner Pulverteich.

Translator: Suzanne von Engelhardt

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Author: Benedikt Behrens

Quellen: Schriftliche Mitteilung der Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen, 2004; VAN (Hrsg.), Totenliste Hamburger Widerstandskämpfer und Verfolgter, Hamburg 1968; AB 1940.

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