Max Matern

Max Matern (19 January 1902 – 22 May 1935) was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Max Matern was a communist who was convicted of murder and executed for his involvement in the assassinations of Police Captains Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck. The murders took place in 1931 at Bülow-Platz in Berlin. He was later glorified as a martyr by the KPD and East Germany's Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).