Wolfgang Heinze (resistance fighter)

Wolfgang Heinze (born January 25, 1911 in Angermünde ; † January 12, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German lawyer and company director, he resisted National Socialism .

Life

Heinze was born in 1911 as the son of the tax inspector and council member Hermann Heinze. He went to school in Stralsund and then studied law at the University of Berlin. In 1932 he got involved in an anti-fascist youth group and was involved in leaflet campaigns against Hitler. In 1934 Wolfgang Heinze became a court trainee, later an assessor. In 1939 he joined as a legal adviser in the Leipzig industrial company "Köllmann Werkzeugfabrik GmbH" , its general counsel and director of the works he later became. Wolfgang Heinze was married to Hildegard Fehling .

Memorial plaque in Stralsund

Together with Alfred Frank , he belonged to a Leipzig resistance group against the National Socialists from 1941 . During visits to Stralsund he brought illegal writings and gave advice for the resistance. In Leipzig he was involved in the publication of an illegal newspaper. For the forced laborers employed in the Köllmann factory, he organized food, clothing, medicines, etc. Ä. And tried to disrupt the start of production of armaments there. In August 1944, Heinze was arrested by the Gestapo . Sentenced to death in a trial, he was executed on January 12th in the courtyard of the Dresden Regional Court . Heinze's body was transferred to Stralsund and buried in the Knieper cemetery in St. Jürgen .

Honors

In Leipzig, on August 1, 1945, Pegauer Strasse, which leads to the Markkleeberg district of Raschwitz , the former residence of Heinzes, was renamed Wolfgang-Heinze-Strasse. Likewise, in Stralsund, Tribseer Schulstrasse was renamed Wolfgang-Heinze-Strasse on January 25, 1952 ; on November 22, 1949, a school on the same street was named after Heinze.

Web links

Literature by and about Wolfgang Heinze in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . Ed .: PRO LEIPZIG. 2nd Edition. Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-936508-03-1 , pp. 229 .
^ ^A ^b Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 226 .

personal data
SURNAME	Heinze, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and anti-fascist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 25, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Angermünde
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 1945
Place of death	Dresden

[:0-1] Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . Ed .: PRO LEIPZIG. 2nd Edition. Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-936508-03-1 , pp. 229 .

[LS-2] A ^b Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 226 .