Friedrich Heinze (resistance fighter)

Friedrich Heinze (born April 4, 1889 in Erfurt , † January 5, 1945 in Weimar ) was a merchant and resistance fighter against National Socialism . He died under the guillotine in the courtyard of the regional court in Weimar

Life

Friedrich Heinze was born on April 4, 1889 as the first child of the railway secretary Oskar Heinze and his wife Amalie, née Sturze, in Erfurt. He attended elementary school in Erfurt and then middle school . After leaving school, he became a land registry apprentice and worked in the land registry until he was called up for military service. He was drafted into the First World War in 1914 as an army soldier and in 1917 dismissed from military service due to incurable kidney disease and committed to an ammunition factory in Erfurt until the end of the war .

Heinze married Marie Hempel, with whom he moved to Suhl in 1919 . In 1923 Friedrich Heinze applied for the state lottery income, which was also assigned to him. In 1924 his wife Marie died and he was now alone with his two children, Ursula and Bodo. On June 23, 1934 he married Margarete Müller, b. on May 12, 1902 in Schleusingen , who became a like-minded partner.

The merchant Friedrich Heinze was arrested for the first time in 1934, but since nothing criminal could be proven, he was released again. Because he belonged to the DNVP before 1933 , the Gestapo counted him as part of their “opposing view” as a “reaction” or “ Pan-German ”, although the cosmopolitan Friedrich, as well as his wife Margarete , were in common resistance with communists , social democrats and trade unionists .

The state lottery collection at Suhler Rüssenstrasse 1 was a safe meeting place for like-minded people, but the Gestapo also knew that Heinze was an opponent of the Nazi dictatorship. He met members of the Friedberg group in the "Fuchsbau" restaurant and with Ewald Stübler in his apartment to listen to foreign stations together . The Heinze family's apartment was also a meeting place for anti-Nazis.

In the first large wave of arrests by the Gestapo in Suhl on September 3, 1943, Friedrich Heinze and his wife Margarete were also arrested. Like all the others arrested in Ichtershausen , Margarete was taken to the Gotha regional court prison on remand .

Friedrich Heinze was, like his wife, on December 4, 1944 in the Rudolstadt regional court prison for the main hearing before the People's Court . He was sentenced to death and transferred to the court prison in Weimar. On January 5, 1945 at 17:55 Friedrich Heinze was executed .

memory

A stumbling block was laid in front of the house on Rüssestrasse for the couple Friedrich and Margarete Heinze.

literature

• Gerd Kaiser (Ed.): Upright and strong. Despite all that: women and men from Suhl and the surrounding area in the fight against fascism and war. edition bodoni, Buskow 2011, ISBN 978-3940781192 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kaiser 2011, p. 54 ff.