Hans Heck
Hans (actually Johann) Heck (born March 24, 1906 , † July 14, 1942 in Mannheim ) was a German communist resistance fighter against the Nazi state .
Life
When Hans Heck had finished his school education, he completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith and found a job at the Lanz company . Because of his political and social convictions, he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In the 1920s he campaigned against the emergence of National Socialism .
After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, Hans Heck was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the Kislau concentration camp . When he was released, he continued his illegal work against the Nazi regime. He made contact with the resistance group around Georg Lechleiter and was one of the comrades-in-arms who, after Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, contributed to the production and dissemination of the “The Harbinger” information and indictment. Hans Heck was with those who were to be arrested in February 1942 and tried before the People's Court . The day before the trial began, the defendants were cruelly tortured, whereupon Hans Heck committed suicide.
memory
- On November 20, 1984, the Mannheim City Council decided to name a street in Mannheim-Schönau as "Hans-Heck-Weg".
- A stumbling block was laid by action artist Gunter Demnig on the John Deere factory site (formerly the Lanz company) in Mannheim-Lindenhof .
- In Mannheim's Schwetzingerstadt there is a memorial for the resistance fighters of the Lechleiter group by Manfred Kieselbach (1988) on Georg-Lechleiter-Platz, which was named in 1945 .
literature
- Max Oppenheimer: The Harbinger of the Fall . Röderberg, Frankfurt am Main 1969.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heck, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heck, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1906 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1942 |
| Place of death | Mannheim |