Hans Coppi

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Hans Coppi (left) in Velten in 1940
Memorial plaque in Berlin-Tegel , Seidelstrasse 20, parcel 107.

Hans Coppi (* 25. January 1916 in Berlin , † 22. December 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was one of the Third Reich to the resistance group " Red Orchestra ".

Life

Coppi grew up in the Berlin working-class district of Wedding . His mother Frieda Coppi was a tailor, his father Robert Coppi a painter, specializing in lacquer grinding and gilding. The parents joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1930 . At the beginning of 1929, Coppi had to leave the Lessing grammar school in Pankstrasse because of participation in a demonstration by the KPD . From 1929 to 1932 he attended the Scharfenberg reform school in Berlin-Tegel . In 1931 and 1932, respectively, Coppi became a member of the Red Scouts and the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD). At the end of 1932, he expressed his solidarity with students who had been expelled from the school farm. Without deregistering, they had watched the film Comradeship in Tegel, which was about Franco-German solidarity . He returned to the Lessing High School. After Easter 1933 he refused to continue attending the now National Socialist school.

The 17-year-old recruited members of the KJVD for illegal work. They distributed leaflets and leaflets calling for resistance to the Nazi regime. Soon Coppi had to live illegally - because he was looking for an arrest warrant - hid with friends and organized the illegal work. For the Reichstag election in November 1933 he and Catholic scouts prepared a sticky note with a verse from the Old Testament that ended with the words: "And to choose you is an abomination". At the end of January 1934 he was arrested and had to spend two months in custody in Oranienburg concentration camp .

He then received a one-year juvenile prison sentence for distributing illegal leaflets , which he had to serve in Plötzensee juvenile prison. After his release from prison in 1935, Coppi was placed under the supervision of a youth guardian. In the period that followed, he again had contacts with Scharfenberg friends who helped those persecuted by the Nazi regime escape. As a co-author of leaflets, Coppi warned of the NSDAP's war plans in 1936 . At the end of 1938 he found a job as an unskilled worker in a small engineering factory. At the beginning of the Second World War , Coppi was not called up as a soldier because he was considered "unworthy of defense". In 1939 he joined the resistance group around Wilhelm Schürmann-Horster . Since 1940 he was in contact with the Hitlerite opponent Harro Schulze-Boysen , who worked in the Reich Aviation Ministry , and with the sculptor Kurt Schumacher .

In 1941 Coppi married Hilde Rake , who worked as an employee in the Reich Insurance Company. At the beginning of June 1941, at Schulze-Boysen's request, Coppi agreed to work as a radio operator. In addition to his work as a lathe operator, Kurt Schulze, a radio operator trained in Moscow, instructed him in Morse code and radio technology. A radio connection was not established due to the short range of the radio devices. In August 1942, Coppi looked after Albert Hößler, who had come from Moscow with a more powerful radio . At the end of August 1942, Coppi was drafted into the Wehrmacht . On September 12th the Gestapo arrested him in the training regiment in Schrimm near Posen and locked him in the house prison of the Gestapo headquarters (Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8).

"Field judgment" of the Reich Court Martial on December 19, 1942

His wife was also arrested on the same day. Hilde Coppi was pregnant at the time. Her son Hans was born on November 27, 1942 in the Barnimstrasse women's prison in Berlin . Hans Coppi was tried before the Reich Court Martial and sentenced to death on December 19, 1942. Three days later he was hanged together with Arvid Harnack and Harro Schulze-Boysen in Plötzensee prison.

Honors

literature

  • Heinrich Scheel : Before the barriers of the Reich Court Martial. My way into the resistance. edition q, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-86124-147-1 .
  • Gilles Perrault : On the trail of the Red Chapel. (Revised edition), Rowohlt 1994.
  • Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance. - With an introduction by Heinrich Scheel. results, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0 .
  • Hans Lautenschläger : At the side of Hans Coppi. Memories of Comrade Hans Lautenschläger about the struggle of the Schulze-Boysen / Harnack organization. Berlin 1980.
  • Stefan Roloff : The Red Chapel. The resistance group in the Third Reich and the history of Helmut Roloff. Ullstein-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-548-36669-4 .

Movies

See also

Web links

Commons : Hans Coppi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Hans Coppi, Jürgen Danyel, Johannes Tuchel: The Red Orchestra in the Resistance to National Socialism , Berlin 1994, p. 135.
  2. ^ Journal of History, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1963, p. 546
  3. Neues Deutschland , December 23, 1969, p. 5.
  4. Future of Berlin's allotment gardens with a term of protection of 2020 , ed. from the Landesverband Berlin der Gartenfreunde eV, Berlin 2015, p. 139.
  5. List of honors of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  6. ^ Website of the Coppi-Gymnasium
  7. Hans and Hilde Coppi ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. Coppistraße. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  9. Inga Wolfram u. a .: Lost Life: Summary