Ernst Zinna

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Ernst Zinna and Heinrich Glasewaldt on the barricade at the corner of Jägerstrasse and Friedrichstrasse (contemporary spring lithograph by Theodor Hosemann )

Ernst Friedrich Rudolf Zinna (born September 8, 1830 in Berlin , † March 19, 1848 in Berlin) was an apprentice locksmith and fighter in the March Revolution in 1848.

Life

Ernst Zinna went on a journey to his uncle in Kreuznach during his locksmith apprenticeship in 1846 . In the summer of 1846 he received the Prussian Lifesaving Medal for saving people from drowning twice. Back in Berlin, during the revolutionary struggles on March 18, 1848 , Zinna took part in the construction and defense of a barricade against Prussian troops in Friedrichstrasse on the corner of Jägerstrasse . He was hit by shots from the royal troops. Zinna died a short time later in the Charité . On March 19, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV was forced to pay homage to him and the others who had been killed at their laid out coffins. On March 22nd, Zinna was buried in the cemetery of those who died in March .

Ernst Zinna was best known and used as a general symbolic figure for courageous resistance to oppression.

Several schools in the GDR were named after Ernst Zinna. Until 1989 the Ernst Zinna Prize was awarded by the city of Berlin . In 2000 a street in Berlin was named after Ernst Zinna, the Ernst-Zinna-Weg in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district . The Ernst Zinna orienteering race takes place in his honor.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernst Zinna  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst-Zinna-Orientierungslauf tsvberlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Zinna, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zinna, Ernst Friedrich Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1848
Place of death Berlin