Heinz Chapel

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Berlin memorial plaque on the house at Weserstraße 168, in Berlin-Neukölln

Karl Heinz Wilhelm Kapelle (born September 17, 1913 in Berlin , † July 1, 1941 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was the leader of a communist youth group in Berlin as a resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Kapelle learned the profession of printer between 1928 and 1932 and was then unemployed until 1934. Since 1931 he belonged to the workers sports club "Fichte". In the same year he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany , in which he fought illegally against the National Socialists in Neukölln from 1933 . He was actively involved in the production and distribution of prohibited information materials.

Kapelle was arrested for the first time in the spring of 1934 and sentenced to two years in prison on September 20, 1934. After his release from prison he continued the resistance fight. B. with the production and distribution of illegal pamphlets, in which attention was drawn to the imminent danger of war, continued in the southeast of Berlin. Since he had been employed in a printing company since mid-1938, he also used the opportunity to produce leaflets there.

He was involved in setting up an anti-fascist youth group, which in 1939 included around 60 young women and men from the former KJVD, SAJ and Catholic youth, most of whom came from Neukölln, but also from Kreuzberg, Tempelhof and Treptow. Heinz Kapelle was given the task of keeping in touch with a foreign instructor of the KPD Central Committee and passing on the illegal material he had brought with him - decisions of the KPD and the KJVD, leaflets written by the writer Heinrich Mann , arguments against the National Socialist youth laws and other things.

On September 8, 1939, a few days after the start of the Second World War , the group distributed the leaflet I call the youth of the world, which they had produced themselves . On October 16, 1939, the Gestapo searched for and arrested Kapelle and five other resistance fighters. On February 21, 1941, the court sentenced him to death , which was carried out on July 1, 1941 in Plötzensee .

Honors

Since 1951 the former Friedrich-Karl-Ufer in Berlin-Mitte (the Uferstrasse between Alexanderufer and Schiffbauerdamm) has been called Kapelle-Ufer in his honor . There is also a Heinz-Kapelle-Straße in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg .

Since the East German NVA saw itself in the maintenance and continuation of the anti-fascist German traditions, on March 1, 1970 the Air Training Squadron 15 of the NVA Air Force was given the honorary name Heinz Kapelle .

A Berlin memorial plaque in memory of Heinz Kapelle was inaugurated on September 17, 1993 at the residential building at Weserstraße 168 in Berlin-Neukölln .

A memorial plaque is on the wall of the memorial of the socialists in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde.

A feeder trawler with the fishing identification number ROS 409 of the "Artur Becker" series and a type X cargo ship also received his name.

In the southern Brandenburg town of Wildgrube , near Bad Liebenwerda , a school was named after him. It was called POS Heinz Kapelle until it closed in 1986 .

The youth hostel in Halbendorf / Spree bore his name.

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinz Kapelle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Neukölln youth against war and fascism (PDF; 127 kB)