Johann Kupka
Johann (also Hans) Kupka (born November 23, 1899 in Ilvesheim , † September 15, 1942 in Stuttgart ) was a German communist resistance fighter against the Nazi state .
Life
Johann Kupka came from a family that lived in the small town of Ilvesheim near Mannheim . His social and political views led him to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In the 1920s he campaigned against the rise of National Socialism .
After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, he was arrested by the Gestapo , but was released three weeks later. Now he illegally continued his fight against the Nazi regime . He joined the resistance group of Georg Lechleiter to that produced the leaflets and writings and workplaces of large enterprises from Mannheim distributed. After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the group began to produce a newspaper in which the misanthropy and senselessness of this war were highlighted on the basis of news and analyzes. It was Kupka's task to bring the described matrices from Heidelberg to a cellar in Mannheim, where they were printed and compiled. The group of 19 suspects was denounced by treason , so that only four issues of this newspaper could be produced. In the subsequent arrests, Kupka was one of those arrested. In a trial before the People's Court in Mannheim Castle , the defendants were sentenced to death and executed with the guillotine on September 15, 1942 in the Stuttgart Regional Court .
memory
- In Ilvesheim the "Hans-Kupka-Siedlung" was named in memory of Johann Kupka.
- A stumbling block was laid by the action artist Gunter Demnig on the factory premises of his former place of work at the Lanz company in Mannheim-Lindenhof .
literature
- Max Oppenheimer : The Harbinger Case , Frankfurt 1979
- AU Machmol: " Lifelong human" or outsider, the strong of the weak. A novel-like tale , ISBN 978-3-7357-3516-4 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kupka, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kupka, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ilvesheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1942 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |