Erich Heins
Erich Heins (born November 1, 1907 in Hamburg ; † June 26, 1944 in the Hamburg remand prison ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism .
Life
Heins came from a Hamburg working class family . After attending elementary school he trained as a locksmith and worked in the shipyard of Blohm & Voss . He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), joined the Red Front Fighters League (RFB) and was involved against the emerging National Socialism . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he continued this activity illegally . When the Gestapo learned that the Red Front fighters were meeting conspiratorially in his apartment , he was taken into " protective custody " for three months .
In the early 1940s, at the shipyard where he worked, he contacted the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen resistance group , which campaigned for foreign forced laborers brought in from Eastern Europe during the war. Political education about actual war events and acts of sabotage were also part of their resistance activities . When this network became known to the Nazi authorities through treason, Hein and numerous other of his comrades were arrested in May 1944 and sentenced to death by the People's Court in the “ Hamburg Communist Trials ” . Erich Hein was born on June 26, 1944, together with Karl Kock , Hans Köpke , Ernst Mittelbach , Walter Reber , William Stein , Paul Thürey , Kurt Vorpahl and Oskar Voss Detention Holstenglacis with the guillotine executed. The bodies of Erich Heins and other executed people were given to the Anatomical Institute in Kiel without the knowledge of the bereaved . After the liberation from National Socialism , they were buried as "unknown dead" in a mass grave in the Kronshagen cemetery.
Honors
In the honor grove of Hamburg resistance fighters at the Hamburg cemetery in Ohlsdorf there is a pillow stone in honor of Erich Heins (third row from the left, eighth stone).
A stumbling block reminds of Erich Heins' last address at Dammtorstrasse 20 in Hamburg-Neustadt .
Web links
- Execution Note Retrieved August 24, 2011
- Biography of Erich Heins at stolpersteine-hamburg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Puls : The Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group: Report on the anti-fascist resistance struggle in Hamburg and on the waterfront during the Second World War Dietz, Berlin, 1959, accessed August 24, 2011
- ↑ http://www.nadir.org/nadir/periodika/lokalberichte_hamburg/lb94-13.html Retrieved August 24, 2011
- ↑ Ursel Hochmuth : Nobody and nothing is forgotten: Biograms and letters from Hamburg resistance fighters 1933-1945. VVN - Association of Antifascists. Regional Association Hamburg. Retrieved August 24, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heins, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1944 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |