Walter Heinze (resistance fighter)

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Walter Heinze (born June 18, 1900 in Leipzig ; † February 23, 1933 ibid) was a German worker and fighter against National Socialism . He was the first to be killed by the labor movement in Leipzig after the National Socialist seizure of power on January 30, 1933 .

Life

Walter Heinze was a machinist in the Leipzig district of Plagwitz , as well as a member of the SPD and the Reichsbanner .

Assassination and burial

“ An SPD event was to take place in the Volkshaus on February 23 . To do this, they met at the corner mentioned and were attacked by a troop of the SA . “It is unanimously asserted by a number of Reichsbanner people that the leader of the National Socialist department gave the order: 'Push away! Clear the road! Drauf! '”Reads the Neue Leipziger Zeitung . “In any case, the National Socialists hurried after the Reichsbanner people, who had to give way to the superior power, and attacked them. Knives and striking tools were needed. ”The 30-year-old chauffeur (Heinze no longer worked as a locksmith in 1933.…) Walter Heinze was seriously injured and died a few hours after the attack as a result of a knife attack that injured his lungs. … “Walter Heinze's funeral took place at the end of February '33 with great public sympathy at the Leipzig South Cemetery . Contemporary sources speak of a funeral procession with a length of one and a half kilometers. Most of the mourners wore Reichsbanner uniform ", according to the information from the Leipzig SPD."

Honors

On August 1, 1945, the Ziegelstrasse in Plagwitz, where Walter Heinze had lived (Ziegelstrasse 13), was named after him. The Leipzig historian and former chairman of the Leipzig SPD city association, Gernot Borriss, initiated the affixing of an explanation board to the street sign (on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of death).

literature

  • City Archives Leipzig (Ed.): LEXIKON Leipziger Straßeennamen. Leipzig: Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum 1995, p. 217

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucas Böhme: Resistance, Leipzig and its stubbornness - grown historically?, In: LZ Leipziger Zeitung, p. 29, Leipzig June 12, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Cesare Stercken: Walter Heinze June 18, 1900 - February 23, 1933 in 3viertel-Zeitung, Leipzig 2013
  3. ^ Walter-Heinze-Straße in Leipzig Lexikon, accessed on June 21, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Heinze, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German machinist, victim of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1933
Place of death Leipzig