Hans Coppi
See also: Coppi
Hans Coppi (born the January 25th 1916 with Berlin; carried out the December 22nd 1942 with Berlin - Plötzensee) was member of the red Orchestre, the group of German Résistance to the Nazism under the Third Reich.
Biography
The parents of Hans Coppi belonged to the Communist party. Of 1929 with 1932 Hans Coppi attended the boarding school new Éducation of Scharfenberg to Berlin. Since 1931 or 1932 Coppi belonged to the Scouts reds ( Rote Pfadfinder ) and of the Union of the young German Communists .
In 1932 Coppi is returned boarding school to have taken the party of other pupils who had viewed without authorization a film which put in scene Franco-German solidarity. It returns then to the Lessing college of Berlin. In March 1933 (after the Fire of the Reichstag) Coppi enters clandestinity to escape the imprisonment. It nevertheless is stopped in January 1934 by the Gestapo and is condemned, without lawsuit, has two months of déportaion to the concentration camp of Oranienburg. Its sorrow is prolonged one year for propaganda brochure distribution there illegal.
To its release in 1935 Coppi is placed under the monitoring of a teacher. It finds an employment.
Coppi is joint author of leaflet which dice 1936 reveal the warlike projects of the Nazi party.
At the beginning of the Second world war Coppi is not called like soldier because judged " make indignant to serve the army ". He joined the group of resistance around Wilhelm Schürmann-Horster (1900-1943). Contacts with the circle of the red Orchestre existed since 1940.
In 1941 Coppi marries Hilde Rake. He declares himself ready to inform by radio the Soviet Union on the activities of his group of resistance.
The following year Coppi deals with Soviet secret agents. The proclamation of the All-out war means for Coppi incorporation in the Wehrmacht.
The September 12th 1942 it is imprisoned at the same time as his wife. Hilde Coppi was then pregnant and their Hans son was born the November 27th 1942 with the prison for women from Berlin in the street Barnim.
Hans Coppi is condemned to died the December 19th 1942 by the court of war of Reich. Three days later he is decapitated with the Prison of Plötzensee at the same time as Arvid Harnack and Harro Schulze-Boysen.
Source
See too
- List of resistant German to the Nazism
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