Wilhelm Grosskopf

Memorial plaque for Wilhelm Großkopf and Wilhelm Heese in Bertramstrasse

Wilhelm ("Willi") Großkopf (born January 13, 1910 in Hanover ; † February 22, 1933 ibid) was a German lathe operator , member of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Germany , the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot- Gold and victims of National Socialism .

Wilhelm Großkopf was - just like his colleague Wilhelm Heese - when the SA attacked a Hanoverian “Schufo” department formed in 1930, “which had to protect an election rally of the SPD (at the Lister Tower ) in the run-up to the Reichstag elections of March 5, 1933 “Murdered by a shot in the back.

Honors

• Memorial plaque on the Lister Tower
• Memorial plaque in Bertramstrasse

literature

• Circular Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Gau Hannover and local group Hannover, 1930, 1932 (copies in the project workers' movement of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover )
• U. Richter (Red.): The Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Hanover (= district cultural work "For example", No. 7, 1992)
• Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 136.
• Klaus Mlynek : Reichsbanner black-red-gold. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 519f.
• Klaus Mlynek: Hanover in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism, 1918–1945. In: History of the City of Hanover: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , p. 493 (with a photo of the funeral procession for Großkopf and Heese), online

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Großkopf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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1. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Heese, Wilhelm. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 158: online
2. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: Reichsbanner ... , s. Literature section
3. ↑ see memorial plaque from Bertramstrasse