Hans John (resistance fighter)

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Grave of Hans John and others in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery

Hans John (born August 31, 1911 in Ziegenhain in Hesse ; † April 23, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Hans John first grew up in Ziegenhain in Hesse, then, like his older brother Otto, he was a student at the Staatliche Realgymnasium in Wiesbaden, where he graduated from high school in 1931 and studied law . As an assistant at the Institute for Aviation Law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , he began to work legally in 1939. In June 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and seriously wounded on the Eastern Front in March 1942 . He was discharged from the armed forces unfit for military service and was then able to devote himself to scientific work again.

Hans and his brother Otto John had contacts with the resistance circles in the Foreign Office / Defense of the High Command of the Wehrmacht . They found out about the Walküre company and decided to take part. You were involved in the preparation of the coup attempt and the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 . After Hans Oster and Hans von Dohnanyi were arrested in spring 1943, the brothers supported the escaped captain Ludwig Gehre in renting various illegal accommodations.

Hans John was arrested in August 1944 and severely ill-treated while in custody. In February 1945 he was sentenced to death by the People's Court and shot by a special command from the Reich Main Security Office on the night of April 23, 1945 on an area near the Lehrter Strasse cell prison in Berlin . His brother Otto John, on the other hand, managed to escape from Germany on July 24, 1944.

Web links

Commons : Hans John  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Schnell, among other things: The high school graduates of the Realgymnasium. In: 100 Years of the State Gymnasium and Realgymnasium Wiesbaden , Wiesbaden 1951, p. 167 ff., 178
personal data
SURNAME John, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Ziegenhain , Hessen
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1945
Place of death Berlin