Heinrich Aschoff

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Heinrich Aschoff (born August 9, 1893 , † December 10, 1958 ) was a German farmer. He was posthumously because of the 1965 rescue of Jews as a Righteous Among the Nations award.

Life

Heinrich Aschoff was a large farmer in Herbern . The family was Roman Catholic , one brother became a priest . During the First World War he was a soldier and was seriously injured. He was blind in one eye from a war wound. He was married to Maria Aschoff (1899–1953). The couple had eight children whom they raised strictly. During the Second World War , slave laborers who were housed in an outbuilding were also employed on the farm . Among them were two Russians and one Pole.

Between 1943 and Easter 1945, the Aschoff family hid the Jewess Marga Spiegel and her daughter Karin (* 1938) on their farm , whereby they had to change hiding places several times and also found accommodation with other farming families in Münsterland. They had the code name "Krone". The oldest daughter Anni (* 1923; † 2011; 1948 ∞ Karl Richter) was the only one of the children of the Aschoff family to know that the two "Krones" were Jews.

Marga Spiegel and her daughter stayed in contact with the family after the war. Marga Spiegel and her husband Siegmund, who had also survived the Holocaust , made an early effort to ensure that the merits of their rescuers were recognized.

Heinrich Aschoff was named Righteous Among the Nations in 1965. At the same time, other farmers who had helped the family received the award. These were Hubert Pentrop , Hermann Südfeld , Heinrich Silkenbömer and Bernhard Sickmann . On July 12, 1971, Anni Richter was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her work to save Jewish citizens .

Aftermath

In the film Unter Bauern - Retter im Nacht (2009), Martin Horn played Heinrich Aschoff, his wife was portrayed by Margarita Broich and Anni Richter by Lia Hoensbroech .

literature

  • Marga Spiegel: farmers as saviors. How a Jewish Family Survived . Cologne 1987 ISBN 3-87682-830-9

Web links

  • Where are you coming from . In: Der Spiegel , issue 42/1966 of October 10, 1966, pp. 88–90 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem Honored on the side of Yad Vashem (English)
personal data
SURNAME Aschoff, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and Righteous Among the Nations
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1893
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1958