Köpenickiade
The Köpenickiade is a form of imposture in which obedience is obtained through official presumption . The expression goes back to the event of October 16, 1906 in Cöpenick near Berlin , when the factory shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt posed as captain and occupied the town hall with a troop of soldiers , arrested the mayor and had the city treasury handed over to him. The incident immediately became world famous and served Carl Zuckmayer's comedy Der Hauptmann von Köpenick. A German fairy tale in three acts and numerous stage plays and film adaptations as a template.
Examples
- In the contemporary press in Germany and France , a spectacular prank was immediately compared with the Köpenickiade , which was played in February 1913 on the military administration of Strasbourg in Alsace by a purser aspirant on leave using a forged telegram . A visit by Kaiser Wilhelm II was announced, which triggered the parade march of the entire Strasbourg garrison with thousands of soldiers in front of the Strasbourg Imperial Palace , who waited in vain for the arrival of the emperor together with numerous onlookers and dignitaries.
- → Sources and details: Strasbourg Köpenickiade
- In January 1932, the public has become subsequently attempts were NSDAP , in the Thuringian town Hildburghausen the naturalization of Adolf Hitler to force rumored in the domestic and foreign reporting for several weeks under the ironic slogan "Köpenickiade of shield Burghausen". At Wilhelm Frick's instigation, Hitler had been appointed gendarmerie commissioner in the town, but tore up the certificate of appointment because he felt ridiculous.
- → Sources and details: Köpenickiade von Schildburghausen
- After the destruction of the Berlin building of the People's Court in an air raid on February 3, 1945, decided that the charge of high treason Senate to Bayreuth to install. In this context, the transport of around 270 political prisoners from Berlin to Bayreuth began on February 6, 1945. They arrived at Bayreuth St. Georgen prison on February 17th . When the American troops approached , they were scheduled to be shot on April 14, 1945. The Köpenickiade of the political prisoner Karl Ruth , who had escaped a few days earlier and was mistaken for an American officer, brought about her release. Among the prisoners were also the later President of the Bundestag Eugen Gerstenmaier and the resistance fighter Ewald Naujoks .
- → Sources and details: Bayreuther Köpenickiade
- The most well-known end- phase crimes during the collapse of Nazi rule in Germany include the mass murders of the so-called executioner from Emsland in April 1945: 19-year-old private Willi Herold posed as a captain and left more than 150 prisoners in the Emsland camp Aschendorfermoor and others Shoot people. After a war crimes trial against the main perpetrator and six co-defendants in August 1946, Herold was executed in November 1946. Because of the superficial parallels in the course of the crime, the gruesome event was also referred to by some authors as the “bloody Köpenickiade”.
- → Main article: Willi Herold
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Example from May 2017: With blue light: 18-year-old is playing civil patrol. (No longer available online.) Norddeutscher Rundfunk , May 2, 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on November 4, 2019 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ TXH Pantcheff: The executioner from Emsland. Willi Herold, 19 years old. A German lesson . Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7663-3061-6 (2nd edition with changed subtitle, which weakens the echoes of the title of the Zuckmayer play: Der Henker vom Emsland. Documentation of a barbarism at the end of the war. Schuster, Leer 1995, ISBN 3-7963-0324-2 ). The blurb of the book describes the events in the 2nd edition as the "bloody Köpenickiade from the last days of the 2nd World War, which between 150 and 200 people fell victim to."
Web links
Wiktionary: Köpenickiade - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
