Paul Hinze (resistance fighter)

Stumbling block in front of the house, Kolonnenstrasse 46, in Berlin-Schöneberg

Stolperstein , Berliner Strasse 26, in Berlin-Tegel

Paul Hinze (born August 10, 1906 in Letschin , † April 20, 1945 in Brandenburg-Görden ) was a German communist and resistance fighter .

Life

The son of a shoemaker grew up in the Brandenburg municipality of Letschin in Oderbruch . Here he attended the local boys' school and then learned the trade of a butcher . After his apprenticeship, he went to Berlin, where he opened a butcher shop.

Even before Hitler's “ seizure of power ” began , Hinze became a communist and joined the KPD . In Berlin he got to know Werner Seelenbinder through sport and he joined the resistance group around Robert Uhrig . Later he was also accused of having contacts with the resistance group around Anton Saefkow .

During the dictatorship of the National Socialists , Paul Hinze supported members of the KPD leadership. In his butcher's shop, he illegally set up duplicating machines and printing machines that were used to produce anti-fascist printed matter such as leaflets. Later, Hinze had to go underground himself. He found refuge with Georg Lehnig , but was arrested on April 14, 1944.

In connection with his arrest, the Berlin sales representative Max Borrack and his wife Marta were also arrested, who were accused of having given Hinze accommodation and privileges. Borrack was sentenced to death for “preparing to commit high treason ” and degrading military strength and was executed on February 19, 1945 in the Brandenburg penitentiary . His wife Marta was sentenced to two years in prison for failing to report Paul Hinze and her husband.

After an unsuccessful suicide attempt on January 31, 1945, Paul Hinze was sentenced to death before the People's Court on February 15, 1945 , chaired by Senate President Kurt Albrecht . Shortly before the end of the war, he was executed on April 20, 1945 at the age of 39 in Brandenburg-Görden.

Honors

• In his hometown of Letschin, a stumbling block reminds of Paul Hinze at his last residence at Wriezener Straße 9 . Other stumbling blocks are reminiscent of Hinze at Berlin-Schöneberger Kolonnenstrasse 46, where he ran his butcher, and in Berlin-Tegel at Berliner Strasse 26.

literature

• Fritz Wilhelm: In honor of memory - Max Borrack. In: Working group for local literature in the German Cultural Association (Hrsg.): Local calendar for the Bad Liebenwerda district. Bad Liebenwerda 1965/1966, pp. 86-88.
• Ursel Hochmuth : Illegal KPD and movement “Free Germany” in Berlin and Brandenburg 1942–1945. Biographies and testimonials from the resistance organization around Saefkow, Jacob and Bästlein. Hentrich and Hentrich, Teetz 1998, ISBN 3-933471-08-7 , p. 160. (= Writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center. Series A, Analyzes and Representations, Volume 4)

Web links

Commons : Paul Hinze  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• First stumbling block of the Oderbruch set in Letschin. on: letschin.sozi.info (with Paul Hinze's CV)
• Uwe Stiehler: The first stumbling block in the Oderbruch. In: Märkische Oderzeitung . July 13, 2007.
• The résumé of Paul Hinzes on www.berlin.de