Heinrich Matz

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Heinrich Matz , called Hein (born October 9, 1908 in Neuscheidt / Saar, † April 23, 1945 in Neuengamme concentration camp ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and a victim of Nazi Germany .

Life

Matz came from a working-class family in a Saarland community that is now part of the Schafbrücke district of Saarbrücken . After attending elementary school, he learned the profession of heating fitter . He went to Hamburg and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) there. After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, he formed a so-called "group of five" with Bruno Endrejat , Kurt Schill , his wife Hilde Schill , William Dabelstein and others , in which they started educational campaigns in the residential areas around Hamburg's Großneumarkt . To do this, they used a small duplicating machine with which they produced leaflets for certain occasions - including the upcoming execution of the KPD labor leader Etkar André . They also raised money to support persecuted friends and comrades.

After the beginning of the Second World War, Hein Matz belonged to the “ Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen ” resistance group , which particularly campaigned for foreign forced laborers in armaments factories . As these and other Nazi hostile activities were uncovered, Matz was from the Gestapo arrested by a court as a public enemy indicted. He was deported to Neuengamme concentration camp and hanged there with others without a judicial death sentence .

See also

literature

  • Heike Jung, Heinz Müller-Dietz: Prison execution in the "Third Reich" using the example of the Saarland
  • Ulrich Bauche : Work and Destruction. The Neuengamme Concentration Camp, 1938–1945 , catalog for the exhibition in the Document House of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, branch of the Museum of Hamburg History

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rita Bake: Various Worlds II (PDF; 5.3 MB) State Center for Political Education Hamburg. Retrieved September 13, 2011
  2. ↑ Heike Jung , Heinz Müller-Dietz : Prisons in the "Third Reich" using the example of the Saarland
personal data
SURNAME Matz, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matz, Hein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuscheidt on the Saar
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1945
Place of death Neuengamme concentration camp