Kurt Schulz Anti-fascist Resistance figure in Germany who worked for Soviet intelligence Date of Birth: 28.12.1894 Country: Germany

Biography of Kurt Schulze

Kurt Schulze was an anti-fascist activist in Germany who worked for Soviet military intelligence as a radio operator. He was born as the seventh child out of ten in a poor family of a baker, German Schulze, and his wife Anna, nee Koft. In 1900, the whole family moved to Berlin. After completing elementary school in 1909, Kurt trained to become a colonial goods salesman and later worked as an assistant salesman.

In 1913, just before Easter, Kurt arrived in Hamburg and found employment as a shipboy on a vessel headed to Venezuela. He returned to Germany a year later and worked as a clerk in various places. In May 1916, he trained in maritime affairs in Kiel and obtained education as a radio telegraphist and aviation radio operator on the cruiser "Stuttgart."

After the end of World War I, Kurt found himself unemployed. From 1920, he worked as a chauffeur for his father's taxi company. That same year, he joined the ranks of the Communist Party of Germany (KPG) and was a member of the Berlin-Pankow workers' association until 1928, where he met Walter Huzeman.

In early 1929, Kurt underwent radio operator training in the Soviet Union and began working for Soviet military intelligence. On September 8, 1929, he married Martha Leishner. After his father's death in 1932, Kurt became the owner of his taxi company and sold it in 1935. He moved to Petershagen and worked as a traveling salesman at the Berlin Cheese Factory. From 1939, he lived in Berlin and in 1940, he started working as a truck driver for the German State Postal Service. In October 1941, he visited Anatoly Gurevich, a spy who arrived from Brussels, as per the assignment from Soviet intelligence.

Around the same time, Kurt met Hans Kopi from the Schulze Boyzen spy group, whom he later trained in radio technology. He was arrested on September 16, 1942, at his workplace, at Post Office No. 4 at Stettin Station. He was taken to the Central Gestapo on Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8 and transferred to Spandau Prison in 1942.

The trial took place from December 15 to 19, 1942, by the Imperial Military Court. He was sentenced to death for "treason, aiding the enemy, and espionage." Kurt Schulze was executed on December 22, 1942, at Ploetzensee Prison.