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
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;
