Hans Kaltschmidt

Alternate name(s): 
Kalbschmidt
Date of birth: 
Monday, 11 December 1905
Profession: 
sales; cashier; translator at the National City Bank of New York, Buenos Aires; lumberjack
Hometown(s): 
Buenos Aires, Argentina; Stettin, Germany
Political affiliation: 
Communist Party of Argentina, 1932
Affiliations to union and social groups: 
General Confederation of Labour of the Republic of Argentina, Buenos Aires
Approximate date arrived in Spain: 
1937-01-20
Unit: 
Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, Company 2, Lieutenant
Final status: 

WIA; Detained in a concentration/labor camps in France until his escape in 1941; Arrested by Gestapo in December 1942; Held in Buchenwald Concentration Camp

Disciplinary record in Spain: 
Detailed report from 1938 at Ebro says he was responsible for many of his men being killed by bombing due because of a failure to build trenches; Judged demoralized and was missing many nights
Other: 
Moved to Argentina in 1926
Sources: 

RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 380 ll. 11-16; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; Stan Nadel; 

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