1. Karl Artelt was a German revolutionary and a leader of the sailors' revolt in Kiel.
22 Facts About Karl Artelt
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Karl Artelt was born on 31 December 1890 in the German village of Salbke, at Repkowstr.
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Karl Artelt attended the eight-classes primary school and thereafter did an apprenticeship with the machine production company R Wolf in Magdeburg and became a qualified engine fitter.
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Karl Artelt became a contemporary witness of the Bourgeois revolution in China led by Dr Sun Yat-sen.
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When later Karl Artelt protested against a leaflet of the military newspaper An Flanderns Kuste, which according to his statement, "heavily insulted" the striking ammunition workers in Germany, he was sent to a mental home in Bruges.
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Karl Artelt used his job to secretly re-establish the navy shop stewards system, which had been smashed in 1917.
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Lothar Popp and Karl Artelt became the leaders of the sailors' mutiny in Kiel in November 1918.
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Karl Artelt personally confronted some of those troops who came to quell the uprising and convinced them to either move back or to support the mutineers.
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On 10 December 1918, Karl Artelt became Lothar Popp's successor as chairman of the Supreme Soldiers' Council in Kiel.
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The grandson of the latter, Karl Artelt, was sure that his grandfather was the person second from left in the first row.
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Karl Artelt was discharged from the Navy towards the end of January 1919 and left Kiel.
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Karl Artelt went back to Magdeburg and stayed temporarily in Alt-Salbke 93 at a friends flat.
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Karl Artelt was involved in the fighting for a council republic and against the Freikorps Marcker.
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Karl Artelt gave a speech from the balcony of a Government building in the Dome square, addressing the workers on strike.
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Karl Artelt was imprisoned and then released on 22 August 1921 from Naumburg jail.
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Karl Artelt was put into the detention camp at Rheindahlen near Monchengladbach.
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Karl Artelt was then extradited by the Allied commission to the Supreme Imperial Attorney.
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Karl Artelt subsequently started his own small business and worked until the end of 1943 as an independent trader in Nebra.
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Karl Artelt was apprehended in 1933 and was supposed to be imprisoned.
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Karl Artelt nevertheless had to report to the police daily at noon and he was not allowed to leave Nebra.
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In November 1948 Karl Artelt held speeches with the consent of the Soviet and British occupational authorities at seven large rallies in Kiel and its surroundings.