Heins from Have

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Heins von Have (* 1906 in Hamburg ; † 1995 in Hamburg) worked as a businessman in Batavia ( Dutch East Indies ). There he was initially interned by the Dutch after the outbreak of World War II and, before the Japanese landed on Java, brought with the other Germans by the British to British India and ultimately to the internment camp Dehradun near the Nepalese border. Together with Hans Peter Hülsen from Hamburg, he made a first attempt to escape by jumping out of a moving train. However, they were caught after a short time. A second escape attempt by the two ended shortly before reaching the Burmese border with the death of Hülsen.

Firpo's Restaurant 1945

On April 29, 1944, he and six other internees managed to escape from the Dehradun camp. He and Rolf Magener disguised themselves as British officers with sticks and blueprints under their arms, the others, including the well-known mountaineers Peter Aufschnaiter and Heinrich Harrer , as local workers with turbans and tools. So they marched out of the camp gate unmolested. Harrer went to Tibet with Aufschnaiter and became a confidante of the fourteenth Dalai Lama Tendzin Gyatsho . Have and Magener, on the other hand, took the train to Calcutta . Thanks to their linguistic abilities and knowledge of British peculiarities, they managed to stay there for a week unnoticed and to dine in Firpo's restaurant, which was frequented by Americans and British .

Their further odyssey was the hardest part as they had to pass the battle lines in Burma. Disguised as a Swiss business traveler, they continued by train, river steamer, sampan and on foot until they finally met a Japanese patrol in the jungle . This held the two but for spies and handed them the Kempeitai - military police . After two months in Rangoon , they were flown to Tokyo in September 1944 , where they found employment as attachés in the German embassy .

Until the end of 1981, Heins von Have was President of the East Asian Association (OAV) in Hamburg. He also founded Heins von Have (Indonesia) GmbH , which still exists today and is based in Jakarta . He has three sons Heino, Harro and Bodo von Have.

literature

  • Rolf Magener: The chance was zero . Ullstein Verlag, Vienna (1954).
Reprint: Universitätsverlag Winter (2000) ISBN 0850528445

Web links

  1. ^ "Mr. von Have died in 1995" New York Times July 3, 2000 ; "Heins von Have died in 1995" Daily Telegraph May 18, 2000
  2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt November 24, 1981 ( Memento from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Have, Heins from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant in Asia and Jakarta
DATE OF BIRTH 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 1995
Place of death Hamburg