Albert Kuntz
1896–1945
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- politician
Albert Kuntz (4 December 1896 â 22 January 1945) was a German goldsmith, soldier, communist and concentration camp victim.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Buchenwald concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Albert Kuntz (4 December 1896 â 22 January 1945) was a German goldsmith, soldier, communist and concentration camp victim. A soldier in the First World War, Kuntz rose to become an elected representative of the Communist Party of Germany in the Prussian Landtag. In 1933 he was arrested by the Gestapo, and sent to a succession of prisons and concentration camps. He died in January 1945 at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, where he had been organizing the sabotage of the V-2 rocket production line. Following his death, he was revered as an anti-fascist hero in East Germany.
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