Musa Calil

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Musa Cälil (Soviet postage stamp, 1959)

Musa Mostafa Uli Cälil (alternative spelling Cəlil , Tatar - Cyrillic Муса Мостафа улы Җәлил; Russian Муса Мустафович Джалиль transcribed Mussa Mustafowitsch Jalil , other spellings Dzhalil, Jalil and Djalil * February 2 jul. / 15. February  1906 greg. In Mustafino , Orenburg Governorate , Russian Empire ; † August 25, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was one of the most important Tatar poets .

In 1941 Cälil was drafted into the Red Army as a political officer . In 1942 he fell into German captivity. There he was assigned to the Legion Idel-Ural , a unit of the Wehrmacht , in which mainly Tatars and Bashkirs were deployed on the German side in the war against the Soviet Union . Within this unit, Cälil founded a secret group that participated in acts of sabotage against the Germans. When these activities came to light in August 1943, he was arrested and taken to the Lehrter Strasse cell prison in Berlin. On 12 February 1944 he was with ten other Tatars from 2nd Senate of the Reich Court Martial in Dresden for " undermining military force , aiding the enemy and war treason " sentenced to death on 25 August of that year at 12:18 to Plötzensee executed.

Moabite notebooks

During his imprisonment in Berlin, Cälil continued to write poems that became known under the name Moabiter Hefte ( Tatar Moabit däftäre, Russian Моаби́тская тетра́дь). They were first published in the Soviet Union in 1953 by Konstantin Simonow .

Awards and honors

  • Cälil was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (1956) and the Lenin Prize (1957) for his work .
  • On the occasion of his 50th birthday, the Soviet Post issued a special stamp in 1959 .
  • Mount Dzhalil ' was named after him in 1961, a 2510  m high mountain in Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
  • In 1968 the newly founded city of Jalil was named after him.

Web links

Commons : Musa Cälil  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Plötzensee Memorial: Tatar resistance fighters around Musa Dshalil, viewed July 15, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Calil, Musa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cälil, Musa Mostafa ulı (full name); Cəlil, Musa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tatar poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Mustafino
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1944
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee