Willi Heinze

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Memorial stone for Heinze, Riedel and Ritter in Berlin's Boxhagener Strasse

Willi Heinze (born March 29, 1910 in Berlin ; † February 26, 1945 ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Willi Heinze was a packer / shipping agent by profession. From 1924 he was a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth and from 1926 of the Communist Youth Association of Germany . Until 1933 he was an active member of the KPD and a member of the management of the Berlin party organization around Anton Saefkow . After the National Socialist " seizure of power " he worked in the Berlin resistance against the National Socialist dictatorship . He participated in the resistance group around Robert Uhrig .

He was arrested on August 10, 1944 and sentenced to death on January 18, 1945 by the 5th Senate of the People's Court . On February 26, 1945, shortly before the end of World War II, he was executed in the Brandenburg prison.

In Berlin, a plaque on his house at Wilhelm-Stolze-Straße 32 reminds of him. In the cemetery of the Georgen Parochial Congregation in Berlin's Boxhagener Strasse is the urn burial place of Heinzes (together with Kurt Ritter and Fritz Riedel ) with a memorial stone “Die Toten admon”. The grave was a VVN honor grave in the GDR and was temporarily listed on the list of monuments in Berlin-Friedrichshain even after 1989 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heiner Pachmann: Berlin: Friedrichshain district . Berlin-Information, 1988, p. 11 ( excerpts from Google Books )
  2. ↑ a b c d e Willi Heinze, DY 55 / V 278/6/653. Federal Archives
  3. ↑ a b Hanne Job : Fight for the human right . Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED, Neuer Weg, 1958, p. 220
  4. ↑ a b The Georgen Parochial Cemetery IV . mainzerstrasse.berlin
  5. ^ Carola Jüllig: Jews in Kreuzberg . Edition Hentrich, 1991, p. 420 ( books.google.de )
  6. ↑ Martin Schönfeld: Memorial plaques in East Berlin: Places of remembrance of the time of National Socialism . Active Museum Fascism and Resistance, 1991, p. 51 books.google.de
  7. ↑ memorial stone »DIE TOTEN MAHNEN«: Riedel, Fritz; Knight, kurt; Heinze, Willi. In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  8. ↑ Memorial: Resistance fighters against the Nazi regime , Friedpark: Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde
  9. ↑ Georgen-Parochial IV cemetery: short portrait . Evangelical Cemetery Association Berlin Stadtmitte
  10. ↑ Andreas Fritsche: Contemporary witness visited Seelenbinder's house: The 100-year-old Alfred Wittig knew the famous wrestler and anti-fascist personally . In: Neues Deutschland , August 3, 2012
  11. ^ Nina Ziesemer: Monument inventory in transition: Monuments of the GDR after 1989 . Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, 2019, p. 237 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Heinze, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1945