Paul Spitzer

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Historic main building of the Köpenick hospital. Here Josef Spitzer received medical treatment in the last days of his life.

Paul Spitzer (born October 28, 1906 in Berlin ; died June 30, 1933 in Berlin-Köpenick ) was a German communist and murder victim during the Köpenick Blood Week .

Life

Josef Spitzer was a member of the KPD.

During the Köpenick blood week on June 21, 1933, he was captured in his apartment by SA-Sturm 2/1 and brought to the storm bar "Demuth" by SA-Scharführer Gustav Erpel and tortured there. SA men forced him to drink clover acid . Spitzer was admitted to the Köpenick hospital and died there. The head of the hospital, Reinhold Hinz , tried to help him and his fellow sufferers. Hinz even turned to Joseph Goebbels , who was present at the funeral ceremony for the dead SA men Walter Apel, Robert Greul and Wilhelm Klein on June 26, 1933, so that Goebbels could get an idea of ​​the victims' injuries. Hinz's license to practice medicine was later revoked.

Josef Spitzer , also a victim of the blood week, was not a brother of Paul Spitzer, as is often stated.

Honors

  • On July 31, 1947 a street was named after Josef and Paul Spitzer.

literature

  • Kurt Werner, Karl Heinz Biernat: The Köpenicker Blood Week June 1933 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1958. (47 pages)
    • Kurt Werner, Karl Heinz Biernat: The Köpenicker blood week June 1933 with an appendix of the victims . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1960, pp. 26, 27, 44. (103 pp.)
  • Kurt Finker : History of the Red Front Fighter League . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1982, p. 243.
  • André König: Köpenick under the swastika. The history of National Socialism in Berlin-Köpenick. Exhibition catalog of the Köpenick Blood Week Memorial June 1933 . Mein Verlag, Mahlow 2004, p. 73.
  • Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann: Resistance in Köpenick and Treptow . German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin 2010, pp. 26, 29, 31, 37, 43. (= Series of publications on the resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Volume 9) ISBN 3-926082-03-8 , gdw-berlin.de ( PDF)
  • Spitzer, Paul . In: Hans-Joachim Fieber: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Volume 7. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89626-907-2 .
  • Rudolf Hirsch : The Koepenick Blood Week. From the courtroom . (PDF; 20.3 MB) In: Daily Review , June 6 to July 20, 1950; Reports on the "Trial against Plönzke and others"
  • From the district hospital in Cöpenick to the DRK clinic The east-west laboratory in Köpenick . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 14, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann, p. 29.
  2. ↑ Kurt Finker, p. 7 and Rudolf Hirsch, p. 22.
  3. ↑ Invitation DRK (PDF)
  4. ↑ Rudolf Hirsch, p. 22.
  5. ↑ Spitzerstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Spitzer, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and murder victim of the Köpenick Blood Week
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1933
Place of death Berlin-Koepenick