Hans Coppi junior

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Coppi at a rally in Berlin-Moabit on the 71st anniversary of the November pogroms , 2009
Coppi at the inauguration of a stele in memory of Felix and Käthe Tucholla , 2013

Hans Coppi (born November 27, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German historian. He is the son of the resistance fighter of the same name, Hans Coppi, and his wife, the resistance fighter Hilde Coppi .

Life

Hans Coppi was born in Barnimstrasse women's prison in Berlin . His parents Hans and Hilde Coppi were murdered by the National Socialists because of their work in the " Rote Kapelle " resistance group . He grew up with his grandparents.

After studying economics, he worked in the GDR's machine tools and tools (WMW) foreign trade company as director and for several years as party secretary of the SED . From 1984 to 1987 he was a member of the SED district leadership in East Berlin. After spending a year studying in Moscow, he went to the Research Center Harnack / Schulze-Boysen at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1992 he received his doctorate from the TU Berlin with a biographical study on Harro Schulze-Boysen. From 1990 to 1994 he was a research assistant at the German Resistance Memorial Center . 1997–2002 he was project manager at the Sachsenhausen Memorial for the electronic indexing of archival sources from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Since 2003 he has been a freelancer at the German Resistance Memorial Center.

From 2004 to 2017 he was chairman of the Berlin Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA), and since 2017 he has been honorary chairman.

The book The Forgotten Resistance of Workers, published in 2012 together with the Berlin political scientist Stefan Heinz . Trade unionists, communists, social democrats, Trotskyists, anarchists, forced laborers received the Honorable Mention Award of the International Labor History Association in early 2013 .

Coppi is married to the gallery owner Helle Coppi. He has three daughters and lives in Berlin-Mitte .

Publications

  • With Jürgen Danyel: The “opponents” group in 1932/33 - a chapter from the prehistory of the resistance. Conference from May 4-6, 1990, publisher: Evangelical Academy Berlin. Evangelisches Bildungswerk, Berlin 1990.
  • The “Red Orchestra” in the field of tension between resistance and intelligence work. The Trepper Report from June 1943. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 3/1996 ( online , PDF, 7 MB).
  • Harro Schulze-Boysen - Ways to Resistance. Koblenz 1995, 2nd edition ISBN 3-923532-28-8 .
  • With Geertje Andresen: This death suits me. Harro Schulze-Boysen - Cross-border commuters in the resistance. Letters 1915–1942. Construction Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-351-02493-2 .
  • As editor with Susanne Römer: Aufbruch - Documentation of a magazine between the fronts. Preface by Peter Steinbach and Susanne Römer. Commentary by Hans Coppi, Koblenz 2001.
  • With Winfried Meyer and Iris Schwarz: Electronic indexing of archival sources in memorials - contributions from the international workshop in the memorial and the Sachsenhausen museum on 23/24. March 2001 Münster. Hamburg, London 2002.
  • Libertas Schulze-Boysen and the Red Orchestra. Booklet accompanying the exhibition Libertas Schulze-Boysen and the Red Orchestra; an exhibition of the German Resistance Memorial Center Berlin at Schloss & Gut Liebenberg, Berlin 2004.
  • With Jürgen Danyel and Johannes Tuchel as (eds.): The Red Orchestra in the Resistance against Hitler. Writings from the German Resistance Memorial Center; Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89468-110-1 .
  • With Nicole Warmbold (ed.): 60 years of unification of those persecuted by the Nazi regime. Reader on the past and present of the VVN. VVN-BdA, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021280-2 / 3-00-021280-9.
  • With Nicole Warmbold: The second Sunday in September - commemorating and remembering the victims of fascism, on the history of the ODF day. Publication accompanying the exhibition The Second Sunday in September - On the History of the OdF Day Preface by Kurt Julius Goldstein ; Berlin 2006 ISBN 978-3-00-019609-6 / 3-00-019609-9.
  • As editor with Stefan Heinz : The forgotten resistance of the workers. Trade unionists, communists, social democrats, Trotskyists, anarchists and forced laborers. Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-320-02264-8 .
  • Soviet prisoners of war in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In: Yearbook for research on the history of the labor movement . Issue I / 2003.
  • With Sabine Kebir : Ilse Stöbe: Back in office. A resistance fighter on Wilhelmstrasse. Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89965-569-8 .
  • With Marco Pompe and Mathias Wörsching (eds.): Descendants of those persecuted by the Nazi regime, from exile and resistance speak up. Berlin 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also http://www.socialhistoryportal.org/news/articles/307490 and "Honorable Mention Award" of the International Labor History Association for the publication by Hans Coppi and Stefan Heinz (eds.): The forgotten resistance of workers. Trade unionists, communists, social democrats, Trotskyists, anarchists and forced laborers. Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-320-02264-8 .
  2. ↑ https://nachkommen-netzwerk-berlin.de/
personal data
SURNAME Coppi, Hans junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coppi, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin