Karl Schabrod

Karl Schabrod (born 19 October 1900 in Perleberg; died 31 March 1981 in Düsseldorf) was a German communist politician.

In 1919 he visited the School of Applied Arts in Leipzig for several months and then worked until 1927 in various cities as a carpenter in his learned profession.

After the beginning of Nazi rule, Schabrod was arrested at a leaflet campaign of Düsseldorf antifascists and was detained until 1934 in the concentration camp Börgermoor.

After his release in May 1934, he went into hiding in the Ruhr Region, was arrested again in July 1934 and re-admitted to the Steinwache in Dortmund and mistreated physically.

Since 1945, Schabrod participated as leader in rebuilding the KPD in the Ruhr Region and was until 1946 a full-time party secretary in the district of Lower Rhine and South Westfalia.

After the KPD ban from 1956 Schabrod worked for a short time as a carpenter, then he was at times an employee of the "Central Council for the protection of democratic rights" (Zentralrat zum Schutz demokratischer Rechte), and from 1958 to 1960 editor of the magazine Freie Meinung.

During the First Parliament of the FDJ in June 1946 (from left to right): Erich Glückauf , Paul Verner , Elly Winter , Wilhelm Pieck , Erich Honecker und Karl Schabrod.