Heinrich Hellige

Heinrich Hellige (born January 10, 1900 in Osterwieck , † May 9, 1950 in Potsdam ) was a German trade unionist , resistance fighter against National Socialism and bank director.

Life

Hellige was a bank clerk by profession. He worked for the Disconto-Gesellschaft for many years and was a member of the employees' union works council in the bank. He married Hertha Schulz in 1925. In 1926 he joined the SPD . When Deutsche Bank and Disconto-Gesellschaft merged in 1928, he joined DeDi-Bank's foreign department. In 1931 he joined the KPD and the RGO . At DeDi-Bank he was also a works council until 1933, where he became a specialist in foreign exchange management.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Hillige headed an anti-fascist cell in his company. He supported Jews and persecuted Nazi opponents through the illegal sale of foreign currency. The Helliges lived at Königsbacher line 48 in Berlin-Frohnau . They belonged to the illegal KPD group Frohnau-Glienicke, which had been connected to the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization since 1944 through Franz Demuth and Emil Leo .

The Helliges took in Edith Felix, a Jew, who was threatened with deportation. After her husband was arrested by the Gestapo in the summer of 1944 , Hertha Hellige kept in touch with like-minded people and met with Gerhard Danelius, who was illegally living, in the house of her sister Käthe Schulz. Heinrich Hellige was sentenced to two years in prison by the Stettin Special Court on July 29, 1944 for foreign exchange offenses, which he served in Gollnow and Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel .

In January 1946 he and Oscar Heimann were commissioned by the provincial administration of the Mark Brandenburg to manage the Landesgenossenschaftsbank Kurmark eGmbH. In February 1946 he was elected chairman of the Landesgenossenschaftsbank. He was also a member of the supervisory board of the main cooperative Kurmark eGmbH and the association committee of the Brandenburg Raiffeisen Association. In autumn 1948 he was appointed director of the Landesgenossenschaftsbank Brandenburg.

literature

• Ursel Hochmuth : Illegal KPD and movement “Free Germany” in Berlin and Brandenburg 1942–1945 . Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-933471-08-7 , p. 157.
• Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52 . LIT Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6321-2 , p. 933.

Web links

• Ways of deportation, ways of rescue: moving trucks and bread trucks