Jupp Messinger
Josef "Jupp" Messinger (born February 12, 1907 in Beuel ; † July 11, 1933 in Bonn ) was a German worker. After his comrade Otto Renois, he is considered to be the second victim of the Nazi regime in Bonn.
Live and act
Messinger was active in the communist movement since the 1920s. In Bonn he headed the Kampfbund against fascism from around 1928 .
On December 7, 1930 Messinger took part in a street battle between Communists and National Socialists in Bonn, in which SA man Klaus Clemens was killed ("bloody Sunday"). Messinger, who was suspected of being involved in the crime, was arrested and charged in connection with the killing of Clemens. However, at his trial in 1931, he was acquitted.
Shortly after the National Socialists came to power in spring 1933, Messinger was arrested on March 1, 1933, together with his brother Hermann, and taken to the Bonn prison on Wilhelmstrasse with numerous other communists. He was taken to the SS quarters in Bonn on Viktoriastraße (today's Oscar-Romero-Haus in Heerstraße) for interrogation . He eventually died as a result of the torture he was subjected to there. In contrast, for the purpose of concealment, it was announced in the press that Messinger had suicided by hanging himself in his cell.
Since 2003 a stumbling stone in front of his last house at Am Finkenberg 1 in Bonn has been a reminder of Messinger's life and murder.
In the 1990s, a left-wing extremist group, which was probably made up of members of the Bonn anti-fascist / autonomous spectrum, named after Messinger as "Gruppe Jupp Messinger". The group accused itself in a "self-image paper" (headline: "[...] this is a call to violence!") From 1994 of having carried out five arson attacks since autumn 1993 and expressed solidarity with the anti-imperialist cells (AIZ). Furthermore, she avowed herself to illegal actions as an expedient means of building a "revolutionary counterpower".
Movies
- History workshop Bonn-Beuel: Jupp Messinger. Murdered 07/11/1933 , 1989.
literature
- Horst-Pierre Bothien: The brown Bonn. People and Events (1925–1939) . Klartext , Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-419-0 .
Web links
- City archive Bonn: "Jupp" Messinger - early victim of National Socialism (PDF file; 700 KB)
- Bonner General-Anzeiger End of War in Bonn: Traces of Terror from May 6, 2015, accessed on June 15, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bothien 2005, p. 41
- ↑ Stumbling block at openstreetmap.org on OpenStreetMap
- ^ Patrick Moreau / Jürgen Lang: Left extremism. An Underestimated Danger , 1996, p. 361.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Messinger, Jupp |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Messinger, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German worker and a victim of National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bump |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1933 |
| Place of death | Bonn |