Gerhard Benkowitz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gerhard Benkowitz

Date of Birth: 02-Jun-1923

Place of Birth: Anzhero-Sudzhensk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Date of Death: 29-Jun-1955

Profession: politician

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Gerhard Benkowitz (2 June 1923 – 29 June 1955) was a school teacher and a resistance activist against the one party dictatorship of the German Democratic Republic.
He was a member of the KgU ("Combat Group against Inhumanity") and became a victim of the epidemic of show trials that hit the country in the first half of the 1950s.
He was executed in June 1955.