Heinrich Bachert

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Stumbling block for Heinrich Bachert

Heinrich Bachert (actually Paul Heinrich Wilhelm Bachert ) (born March 25, 1909 in Hamburg , † April 23, 1945 in Neuengamme ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and a victim of fascism .

Life

Bachert came from a family in which the father of Protestant denomination and mother a Jew was. Son Heinrich as well as the older brother Otto grew up in the Protestant faith. After attending elementary school learned Henry the profession of locksmith and later became a mechanic in the company Conz Bahrenfeld in Altona . Since the introduction of the Nuremberg Race Laws , Bachert was considered a “half-Jew” and was thus exposed to hostility and harassment. Bachert was politically active in the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) illegally . Although he was engaged to Ella Schulz, there was no wedding due to race laws. Their daughter Heidi Henny was born on March 4, 1944 . On October 1, 1944, he lost his job because of his Jewish origins and political convictions. In the meantime he had joined the " Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group ". On March 7, 1945 he was arrested by the Gestapo and taken to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp . Because his fiancée Grete hoped to help him with a wedding , they married - without having obtained the special permit required - on April 1, 1945. Presumably because this insubordination became known, Heinrich Bachert moved from Fuhlsbüttel on April 23, 1945 was taken to Neuengamme concentration camp . There he was hanged without a judgment on the same day .

Honor

In front of his former home at Schenkendorfstrasse 19 , a stumbling block was laid in memory of Heinrich Bachert by the action artist Gunter Demnig .

literature

  • Diercks: Memorial book "KOLA-FU" , p. 51
  • Hochmuth / Meyer: Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance , p. 386
  • Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Book of the Dead
  • List of deaths from Hamburg resistance fighters and persecuted persons 1933–1945

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hamburg.de/contentblob/2542624/data/stolpersteine-barmbek-uhlenhorst.pdf Retrieved August 18, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Bachert, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bachert, Paul Heinrich Wilhelm (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1945
Place of death Neuengamme