Bruno Hinz (Spain fighter)

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Bruno Hinz (* 1900 in Bernburg (Saale) ; † 1937 in Madrid ) was a communist and commander of the Thälmann Battalion of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War .

Life

Bruno Hinz lived in Bernburg . A plaque commemorating him was attached to his former home at 7 Korngasse until the fall of the GDR . When the Nazis put a bounty on Hinz , who worked underground for the KPD , he fled abroad. He attended an officers' school in the Soviet Union and then took part in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Spanish Republic . He was appointed commander of the Thälmann battalion of the XI. International Brigade appointed. He fell off Madrid in August 1937 when he rose from cover in a frontal attack and was fatally hit by a bullet. The historian Frank Hirschinger classifies Hinz as a Stalinist .

His sister, the communist Marianne Latoschinski , was executed in Plötzensee in 1944 .

Posthumous honor

In the GDR, the Bruno-Hinz-Sporthalle and a street in Bernburg were named after him.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the footsteps of Bruno Hinz  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rbwonline.de  
  2. ^ Frank Hirschinger : The myth about the commander of the "Thälmann battalion" Bruno Hinz (1900-1937). In: Totalitarianism and Democracy .
  3. ↑ a b c According to research, the anti-fascist base is smaller. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of October 2, 2009.
  4. ↑ A photo of Marianne Latoschinski has appeared. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of October 28, 2009.
  5. ↑ Bruno-Hinz-Sporthalle ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bernburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Hinz, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Communist and commander of the Thälmann Battalion of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH 1937
Place of death Madrid