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Catalogue description Wilhelm KOENEN: German. Wilhelm KOENEN was a leading figure in the German Trade Union...
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| Reference: | KV 2/2798 |
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| Description: |
Wilhelm KOENEN: German. Wilhelm KOENEN was a leading figure in the German Trade Union Movement and Communist Party (KPD) in the early 1920s and 1930s. Following his alleged involvement in the Reichstag fire of 1933, he fled Germany. After short stays in Spain, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, he arrived in UK in 1938, becoming leader of the KPD there and influential in efforts to mobilize anti-Nazi activity in Germany. During the war he was interned briefly on the Isle of Man and in Canada. KOENEN returned to Germany in 1944, becoming a senior Party member and State official. KOENEN was reported to be an important Comintern agent |
| Note: | Serial 14a - Photograph of KOENEN; Serial 5a - Record of KOENEN's early career; Serial 68a - Photograph |
| Date: | 1932 Apr 30 - 1940 Feb 03 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | PF 40504 VOLS 1-2 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Retained Until 2008 |
| Record opening date: | 04 March 2008 |
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