Heinrich Körner (trade unionist)

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Heinrich Körner (born April 30, 1892 in Essen , † April 26, 1945 in Berlin ) was a Christian trade unionist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime.

Life

Heinrich Körner was the oldest of four children of a Krupp worker. The trained toolmaker became a member of the Christian trade unions in 1911 . In 1913 he volunteered in the Navy . At the beginning of the First World War he was in Tsingtau and was taken prisoner by Japan in November 1914, from which he was only released in 1920. In the following years he worked at Krupp before he became the cartel secretary of the Christian trade unions in Bonn in 1923, where he married Therese Dierichsweiler in 1924 . The couple had three daughters. Two years later he was appointed managing director of the general association of Christian trade unions in Cologne. Here he met Jakob Kaiser , the regional manager of the Christian trade unions. As a member of the German Center Party , he became a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Rhine Province .

After the National Socialists came to power in early 1933, Heinrich Körner was imprisoned for a week in May as the free trade unions were broken up. In June, the Christian trade unions were forcibly dissolved and he lost his job. From 1934 worked as a sales representative. He organized a group of regime critics in Bonn and belonged to the Cologne circle around Jakob Kaiser and Bernhard Letterhaus . There were repeated meetings of resistance groups in his house.

After the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 , Heinrich Körner was arrested on September 1, but released on September 6. On November 25th he was arrested again and shortly afterwards he was transferred to Berlin to the Lehrter Strasse prison . On April 5, 1945, he was sentenced to four years in prison by the Berlin People's Court ; from April 23, the Plötzensee prison was his prison. Two days later, the building was occupied by Soviet troops and the prisoners were freed.

death

Körner wanted to visit a Dominican monastery, which he and his fellow prisoners had agreed as a meeting point. However, he was shot dead on April 26 when he was leaving prison. The circumstances for the German Resistance Memorial Center are unclear, Vera Bücker writes: “During the street fighting between Russians and SS, the SS shot at everything that came from the Plötzensee prison. An SS bullet also hit Körner. ”His grave is on St. Elisabeth-Friedhof II on Wollankstrasse in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen .

Honors

Street sign in the Reutersiedlung in Bonn
Stumbling stone in front of the former residence of the Körner family at Reuterstraße 153, relocated in 2004

In 1999 the Catholic Church accepted Heinrich Körner into the German martyrology of the 20th century .

A street in the Reutersiedlung in Bonn has been named after him since 1949.

A stumbling block in front of his former residence has been a reminder of him since 2004.

literature

  • Dieter Partzsch: You once lived in Kessenich. Life and work of well-known Kessenich citizens, including the personalities after whom streets in Kessenich are named . Bonn 1997, pp. 128-130.
  • Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. Das deutsche Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhundert , Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , Volume I, pp. 228-230.
  • Günter letter , Brigitte Kaff , Hans-Otto Kleinmann : Christian democrats against Hitler. Published on behalf of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . Herder , Freiburg im Breisgau 2004, ISBN 3-451-20805-9 , pp. 330–336.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bonn soldiers. In: Kölnische Rundschau . August 29, 2014, accessed May 11, 2018 .
  2. ^ Letter et al., P. 333
  3. ↑ Short biography of Heinrich Körner from the German Resistance Memorial Center , (accessed on November 11, 2016)
  4. ↑ Vera Bücker: Members of the Heinrich Koerner Circle in Cologne . Retrieved December 30, 2008
  5. ↑ Partzsch, p. 130
  6. ↑ Stumbling block at openstreetmap.org  on OpenStreetMap
  7. ^ Heinrich-Körner-Straße in the Bonn street cadastre
  8. ↑ Catalog of the Stolpersteine ​​laid in Bonn so far (as of 2016). (PDF) Memorial for the Bonn Victims of National Socialism - An der Synagoge e. V., accessed on May 18, 2018 (pdf file).
  9. ↑ nwbib.de


personal data
SURNAME Koerner, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and resistance fighters
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1945
Place of death Berlin