Hilde Coppi

Betti Gertrud Käthe Hilda Coppi ( Rake; 30 May 1909 – 5 August 1943), known as Hilde Coppi, was a German communist in the resistance against the Nazi regime. She was a member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr. While she was pregnant in 1942, she was arrested and gave birth to her son in prison. She was sentenced to death by the secret People's Court in January 1943 and, after a seven month delay so that she could nurse her son, executed on 5 August 1943.

Life

Betti Gertrud Käthe Hilda Rake was born in Berlin, and grew up in Mitte area of Berlin. Her mother ran a small leather shop. After finishing vocational school, she worked as a general practitioner's assistant through much of the 1930s.

Career Coppi was working in Berlin as a clerk at the Reich Insurance Institute for Clerical Workers when she got to know Hans Coppi, who had only just been released from prison. seven months after her husband.

After the end of the war, her son was raised by her husband's parents, Freda and Robert Coppi, in the garden colony Am Waldessaum. and released on 17 October 2024 in Germany.

Awards and honours In the autobiographical novel, The Aesthetics of Resistance (1975-1981), German author Peter Weiss offers a portrayal a literary monument, in honour of the Coppi's.

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