Karl Grünberg (writer)

Heinrich Karl Grünberg (5 November 1891 – 1 February 1972) was a German communist writer and journalist.

He was a reserve soldier during the WWI on the Eastern Front amd after his demobilisation switched to the USPD in 1919 and finally to the KPD in 1920, where he became the temporary editor of the Die Rote Fahne.

He began his writing career by publishing novels about his time as a soldier in the Ruhr Red Army.

After 1933, Grünberg took part in the communist resistance against Nazism and was temporarily imprisoned in the Sonnenburg concentration camp but remained under constant surveillance from the Gestapo after his release.

Immediately after the end of the war, Karl Grünberg took over the rebuilding of the Pankow judicial system for a few months.