Wilhelm Pinnecke

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Wilhelm Pinnecke (born May 28, 1897 in Honnef , † March 12, 1938 in Alcaila , Spain ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

Life

The son of a tailor joined the KPD in the early 1920s and quickly took over the leadership of the local group. In May 1924 he was elected to the city ​​council and the district council. In December 1924 he was arrested for high treason . In the separatist struggles in the Siebengebirge in November 1923, a " proletarian hundred " formed by the communists is said to have participated. Whether a unit actually existed or only a few communists were armed cannot be clarified. The Reichsgericht in Leipzig sentenced Pinnecke as a leading person to two years in prison. In October 1927 he was released from prison and was able to take over his mandates again. In May 1928 he was the KPD's candidate for a seat in the Prussian state parliament, but could not win the mandate. At that time he was working with Ismar Helborn and Arthur May as editor of the daily newspaper Sozialistische Republik , which was published in Cologne for the KPD district Mittelrhein. In 1932 he became a member of the Reichstag for the Cologne- Aachen constituency .

In January 1933 he was one of the speakers at the five-country meeting of the KPD in Honnef, in which around 5,000 people took part. After the seizure of power by the Nazis , he went into hiding to escape arrest. The district management decided to remain in Cologne despite the mass arrests in February / March 1933. Pinnecke took over the role of political director. During a new wave of arrests in the summer of 1933, Pinnecke decided to move his quarters behind the German-Dutch border for security reasons. The Berlin party leadership, which anticipated an imminent collapse of the Nazi regime and wanted to act in time, saw this as an act of cowardice and deposed Pinnecke. He continued to work for the party in the Netherlands . After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War , he fought against the Franco troops and was killed there in 1938.

literature

  • Pinnecke, Wilhelm . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
  • Ansgar S. Klein: Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge , Essen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 .
  • Günter Bers: A regional division of the KPD. Einhorn Presse Verlag, Reinbek b. Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-88756-021-3 , pp. 172/174
  • Günter Bers: The Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the Cologne-Aachen area towards the end of the Weimar Republic. Einhorn Presse Verlag, Reinbek b. Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-88756-029-9 , p. 20 *, p. 49, p. 91, p. 96

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlev Peukert : The KPD in the resistance. Persecution and underground work on the Rhine and Ruhr 1933–1945. (= Düsseldorfer Schriften zur recent regional history and the history of North Rhine-Westphalia. 2). Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1980, ISBN 3-87294-165-8 , p. 102.
  2. ↑ Beatrix Herlemann : The emigration as a combat post. The guidance of the communist resistance in Germany from France, Belgium and the Netherlands. (= Mannheim social science studies. 18). Verlag Armin Hain, Königstein im Taunus 1982, ISBN 3-445-02252-6 , p. 94.
personal data
SURNAME Pinnecke, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Honnef
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1938
Place of death Alcaila , Spain