Franz Hippler

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Franz Hippler (born April 14, 1889 in Allenstein , † late March / early April 1945 in Dortmund ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

When Franz Hippler was nine years old, his family moved to the Ruhr area in search of work . She settled in Dortmund and Hippler met Heinrich Czerkus here . With this he shared his love for Borussia Dortmund and his political convictions. In 1929 Hippler became an active member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

After the National Socialists ' seizure of power ' , Hippler was taken to the Gestapo Steinwache prison and abused there. After his release from prison, Hippler worked underground for the KPD. He organized meetings and distributed propaganda material against the National Socialists. In 1935 he was arrested again and tortured in the stone guard. In the subsequent trial he was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for “preparing for high treason ” . He spent his imprisonment in Münster, Stapelmoor and Herford. After his imprisonment, however, he was not released, but instead sent to Buchenwald concentration camp by the Gestapo via the stone guard in July 1939 .

In April 1943 he was released from custody at the request of his son, who was serving as a soldier, and moved back to Dortmund. Despite the abuse he had to experience in Buchenwald, he found work and a permanent place of residence in Dortmund.

As part of a wave of arrests directed in 1945 against resistance fighters, forced laborers and deserters , Hippler was arrested again by the Gestapo. He and around 300 other people were interned in a reception camp on the premises of the Hörder Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein and murdered between March 7 and April 12, 1945 in Rombergpark , on a railway site between Hörde and Berghofen or in Bittermark . The Bittermark memorial today commemorates this final phase crime . Like 300 other opponents of National Socialism, Franz Hippler was buried in the Bittermark near his long-time friend Heinrich Czerkus .

Since December 11, 2014, a stumbling stone in Dortmund at Wambeler Str. 11 has been remembering him.

literature

  • Gerd Kolbe: BVB in the Nazi era . The workshop, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89533-363-8 .
  • Franz Hippler (1894 to 1945). (PDF) Member of Borussia Dortmund. Church and Sport WorkingGroup ofthe Evangelical Church in Germany, accessed on January 31, 2013 (67.66 kB).
  • Walter Poller: Doctor's clerk in Buchenwald. Phönix-Verlag, Hamburg 1947, OCLC 609405631 , pp. 34 and 73-75.

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personal data
SURNAME Hippler, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Allenstein
DATE OF DEATH between March 7, 1945 and April 12, 1945
Place of death Dortmund