Alfred Kästner

Alfred Kästner (12 December 1882 – 12 April 1945) was a German communist and resistance fighter against Nazism.

Kästner was also a founding member of the Leipzig branch of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1919.

After the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, Kästner's office was once again used for underground gatherings of KPD activists from Leipzig as well as nearby towns such as Chemnitz, Dresden and Riesa, and for printing illegal pamphlets.

Kästner was arrested in September 1933; although he was sentenced to two years and eight months' imprisonment, he was interned in the concentration camps Sachsenburg, Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald until 1939.

[2] The street in the Südvorstadt locality of Leipzig where Alfred Kästner lived was renamed Alfred-Kästner-Straße on 1 August 1945.