Hilde Coppi

Hilde Coppi (née Rake , born May 30, 1909 in Berlin ; † August 5, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German resistance fighter during the Nazi era . She and her husband Hans Coppi belonged to the Rote Kapelle .

Life

When she met Hans Coppi in 1940, Hilde Rake was working in Berlin-Wilmersdorf as a clerk at the Reich Insurance Company for Salaried Employees (RfA). Until 1939 she had worked as an office assistant for doctors and had contact with members of the KPD before 1933 .

Hilde and Hans Coppi married on June 14, 1941. After the German troops invaded the Soviet Union , Hilde Coppi listened to Radio Moscow , noted addresses of German prisoners of war and informed their relatives that the prisoners were alive. She and her husband took part in the sticky note campaign against the anti-Soviet propaganda exhibition “ The Soviet Paradise ”, helped transport a defective radio device, which was illegal at the time, and obtained paper from the Reich Insurance Company for leaflets.

The Coppi couple were arrested on September 12, 1942. Hilde was pregnant and gave birth to her son Hans on November 27, 1942 in the Barnimstrasse women's prison in Berlin . Her husband was executed on December 22, 1942. Hilde Coppi was also sentenced to death on January 20 of the following year . A request for clemency was rejected by Adolf Hitler in July 1943 . The execution was postponed until August so she could breastfeed her child. August 5, 1943 Hilde Coppi was in Berlin-Plötzensee by the guillotine beheaded .

Honors

Memorial plaque in Berlin-Tegel , Seidelstrasse 20, parcel 107.

There is a Hilde-Coppi-Weg in Lehnitz .

In some east German cities, such as Gera , Wernigerode and Zeitz, there is a Hilde-Coppi-Straße , as well as in Korschenbroich (district Kleinenbroich ), in Sindelfingen (district Maichingen ) and in Wehrheim im Taunus.

In Berlin-Lichtenberg there is a Coppistraße and a residential building of the Studentenwerk Berlin called "Hans and Hilde Coppi".

In Eberswalde there is the Coppistraße named after Hans and Hilde Coppi.

In the Berlin district of Tegel , stumbling blocks were laid in front of the allotment garden “Am Waldessaum” (Seidelstrasse 20) (at the entrance to Weg 5). A memorial plaque marks the former house (path 5, parcel 107).

Today the Hans-und-Hilde-Coppi-Gymnasium in Berlin-Karlshorst is named after her and her husband.

Coppistraße , Coppiplatz and Coppi-Lichtspiele in the Leipzig district of Gohlis, also in Leipzig there was the Hans-and-Hilde-Coppi-Mittelschule until 2007

In Freiberg (Saxony) there was the "combined children's facility 'Hilde Coppi'"
In Schleusingen there was the “Hilde Coppi” children's home until 1994.
Elfriede Brüning put a monument to the couple in her novel “So that you continue to live” (1949).
Peter Weiss set Hans and Hilde Coppi a literary monument in his autobiographical novel The Aesthetics of Resistance (1975–1981).
There is an exhibition on Hilde Coppi at the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration ( Berlin-Wilmersdorf , Nestorstrasse 25 in the immediate vicinity of her old RfA workplace around Fehrbelliner Platz ).
In various youth work yards , groups were named after Hilde Coppi.
In 1973 the youth hostel "Torfhaus" in Holzhau (Erzgebirge) was renamed "Jugendherberge Hilde Coppi".

literature

Gilles Perrault : On the trail of the Red Chapel . (Revised edition). Rowohlt 1994.
Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance. - With an introduction by Heinrich Scheel. results, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0 .
Peter Weiss set a literary monument to Hans and Hilde Coppi in his autobiographical novel The Aesthetics of Resistance (1975–1981).
Elfriede Brüning : ... so that you can go on living. New life, Berlin 1949, about the birth of Hans Coppi junior. Nemesis - Socialist Archive for Fiction
Claudia von Gélieu : Women in custody - Barnimstrasse prison; a judicial story. Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-88520-530-0 . (Reprint: Women in prison. Barnimstrasse prison. A history of justice. Espresso-Verlag, ISBN 3-88520-530-0 )

Web links

Commons : Hilde Coppi - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
Susanne Eckelmann: Hilde Coppi. Tabular curriculum vitae in the LeMO ( DHM and HdG )
Rejection of the appeals for clemency by Hitler's Plötzensee Memorial
Hans Coppi : She never expected grace . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 5, 2003.
Beate Schräpel: Hilde Coppi. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).

Individual evidence

↑ Coppistraße. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )

↑ Future of Berlin's allotment gardens with a term of protection of 2020 , ed. from the Landesverband Berlin der Gartenfreunde eV, Berlin 2015, p. 139.

↑ List of honors of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein

^ Website of the Coppi-Gymnasium

↑ Hans and Hilde Coppi ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

^ Website of the City of Leipzig , accessed on August 5, 2015.

↑ Hort Hilde Coppi Paul-Müller-Straße (has since been renamed "Hort GS 'Carl Böhme'".)

personal data
SURNAME	Coppi, Hilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	August 5, 1943
Place of death	Berlin-Plötzensee

[1] Coppistraße. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )

[2] Future of Berlin's allotment gardens with a term of protection of 2020 , ed. from the Landesverband Berlin der Gartenfreunde eV, Berlin 2015, p. 139.