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Persoonlijke gegevens Erich Kuttner 

• Hij is geboren op 27 mei 1887 in NollendorfPlatz, Schoeneberg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany.
• Hij is overleden op 6 oktober 1942 in Mauthausen Concentration Camp, hij was toen 55 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Benno Kuttner en Lina Charlotte Kaufmann

Gezin van Erich Kuttner

(1) Hij had een relatie met Frieda Rankwitz.

(2) Hij heeft/had een relatie met Erna Mosson.

Notities over Erich Kuttner

Erich Kuttner was born on May 27, 1887 at Nollendorfplatz in Schuneberg near Berlin as the child of the businessman Bernhard Kuttner and his wife Charlotte. He graduated from school at the Royal Wilhelm High School in Tiergarten (popularly known as "Lackstiebel High School") with the Abitur. He studied law and had been a legal clerk at the Berlin Chamber Court since 1909. At the same time, he was involved in the left-liberal democratic association (DV) and gained his first journalistic experience with the DV party organ Das Freie Volk. After disciplinary reference and further conflicts with his employer at the Chamber Court, he decided against the judicial career. Another cut in his biography just a few months later was the withdrawal from the Jewish religious community on May 3, 1911. The quota of such withdrawals - often associated with the conversion to Christianity - was high at this time, especially among young men.

After the election disaster of the Democratic Association in the Reichstag elections, Kuttner joined the SPD in 1912. In 1913 he had the class justice brochure! his first independent publication and from July his first permanent employment with the Volksstimme appearing in Chemnitz. During the First World War he fought in France, Belgium and Russia and was so badly injured on the left arm in 1916 that he could not return to war. He became an editor at Vorwurts (1916-1922) and one of the main initiators of the self-help organization Reichsbund der Wargefudten and former war participants.

In the Spartakus riots in January 1919, he fought on the side of the new republic and shot a man as a member of the protection forces for the Ebert-Scheidemann government. Although the judicial investigation was terminated (according to the public prosecutor's office there was self-defense), Kuttner's political opponents continued to take up the event to denounce him as a "worker murderer". Between 1919 and 1933, he therefore tried - each time with success - nine lawsuits for defamation and slander.

In 1921 he was elected as one of the youngest representatives of the SPD in the Prussian Landtag, of which he was a member until 1933. In 1920, still under the impression of the Kapp putsch, he published the satirical book of poems Die drained Front, in which, unlike the heroically fighting German people, he attributed the officers to blame for the defeat at war. From 1922 he was secretary of the socialist weekly for literature and politics Die Glocke and from 1924 main editor of the satirical magazine Lachen Links.

In the state parliamentary debates, he polemicized against the growing faction of the NSDAP and especially against Joseph Goebbels, whom he repeatedly accused of refraining from participating in the First World War and thus not being a patriot. Kuttner himself was insulted in the debates because of his origin - for example at the meeting on June 22, 1932 "as the most uninhibited Jew boy". In his engagement against anti-Semitism, he became a member of the circle of Jewish, formerly Jewish and non-Jewish Social Democrats and the Reichsbund of Jewish front-line soldiers.

Despite the unconstitutional dissolution of the Landtag shortly after the National Socialist takeover on February 6, 1933, new elections for the Prussian Landtag took place on March 5, with many disabilities. Kuttner ran again, was arrested and, with his three-hour detention on election day, received a foretaste of future events. After he had already agreed upon separation of property with his non-Jewish wife Frieda in mid-February, the couple now took further protective measures. On March 24th they moved to Schuneberg. The traces disappear between the end of March and the beginning of May. There is evidence that Kuttner was again taken into uprotective custodyu. For some time, however, it also seems to be submerged. He had been a member of a committee that had prepared the SPD for illegal work since the Reichstag fire.

The trade union ban was the decisive factor in his decision to leave Germany. He fled to the Netherlands on May 10, 1933. His wife came a short time later. At the end of June the couple moved into their own apartment in Amsterdam-Zuid. Kuttner worked as a journalist and wrote comments, poems and satires for social democratic emigrant neWroclaw, Silesia, Polandapers, including the Reichstag fire process. This activity was made more difficult by the Dutch Minister of Justice's ban on political activities for refugees in July 1933.

From spring 1935, Kuttner intervened politically in the debate about the relationship between the SPD and the Communists and the formation of a popular and united front. He was a co-founder of the Amsterdam Section of the Revolutionary Socialists in Germany (RSD), which, in contrast to the board of the exile SPD in P

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