14 Facts About Karl Behrens

Karl Behrens He was a design engineer and resistance fighter against Nazism.

Karl Behrens acted as a courier for the group, passing reports between Arvid Harnack and Hans Coppi who was the radioman.

Karl Behrens was active in a resistance group at the AEG turbine factory power together with Walter Homann and others.

Karl Behrens was the second child of Minna and Carl Karl Behrens.

Karl Behrens started his education in 1917 at a primary school in Berlin and finished on 4 April 1924 at a protestant primary school in Wesel.

In 1937 Karl Behrens met his future wife Clara Karl Behrens, nee Sonnenschmidt, through his friend Otto Franck from the scout movement.

On 15 May 1924 Karl Behrens started a locksmith apprenticeship and after completing it, became unemployed.

Karl Behrens joined the oppositional discussion circle around her husband Arvid Harnack.

In 1938, Karl Behrens began working as a design engineer at the giant AEG turbine factory in Brunnenstrasse in Berlin.

Karl Behrens became one of Arvid Harnack's closest comrades-in-arms in the resistance.

In February 1939, Karl Behrens married Clara Karl Behrens, nee Sonnenschmidt, a stenotypist in the OKH and they had two sons and a daughter together.

Karl Behrens is said to have forwarded encrypted messages from Arvid Harnack to Hans Coppi a few times.

Karl Behrens was then moved to Tosno on the Eastern Front where he began his first military operation.

Karl Behrens was arrested on 16 September 1942 at midday, on the Eastern Front outside Saint Petersburg, then Leningrad.