Alfred Grünberg [SEP] residence
Alfred Grünberg
Alfred Grünberg (18 February 1902 in Magdeburg – 21 May 1942 in Berlin) was a worker, a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime.
Life.
Alfred Grünberg got involved quite early in the Communist youth movement, and in 1928, he joined the KPD in which he served as political leader of a street cell in Bohnsdorf, a Berlin neighbourhood nowadays part of Treptow-Köpenick, until 1933. He published many leaflets for the KPD
Grünberg (surname)
Grünberg, Gruenberg is a German surname meaning "green mountain". Variants include Grunberg and in Norwegian Grønnberg.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Grünberg
- Alfred Grünberg (1902–1942), Communist member of the resistance against the Nazis
- Carl Grünberg (1861–1940), founder of the "Archiv für die Geschichte des Sozialismus und der Arbeiterbewegung" (Archive for the history of socialism and workers movement) (1911–1930)
- Grethe Grünberg (born 1988), ice dancer