Heinz Joachim

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Heinz Joachim (born February 13, 1919 in Berlin , † August 18, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Heinz Günther Joachim studied clarinet at the Berlin Jewish Music School Hollaender until 1941, and in 1940 became friends with Siegbert Rotholz, a member of the Zionist youth movement . He then had to do forced labor in the so-called "Jewish department" in the Siemens electric motor factory in Berlin-Spandau , where he met Herbert Baum , whose resistance group he joined with his friends and his wife. Joachim was involved in the arson attack on the anti-Soviet propaganda exhibition " The Soviet Paradise " in Berlin's Lustgarten on May 18, 1942. Arrested a few days later, he was executed in Plötzensee that same year .

Heinz Joachim was married to Marianne Joachim (1921–1943), who was also executed in Plötzensee. A plaque on their house in Belforter Straße 11/12 commemorates them.

Memorial stone

The Berlin memorial stone in the Lustgarten

This memorial stone, designed by the sculptor Jürgen Raue, was erected in 1981 on behalf of the magistrate of East Berlin without any further information about the resistance action in the Lustgarten.

literature

  • Wolfgang Benz (Hg.): Lexicon of the German resistance . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 2nd, reviewed edition 1994, ISBN 3-10-005702-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page 138 at Margot Pikarski: Youth in Berlin's resistance. Herbert Baum and comrade in arms. Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1978
  2. ^ Resistance group around Herbert Baum. "This memorial stone designed by the sculptor Jürgen Raue was erected in 1981 on behalf of the magistrate of Berlin (East) without any further information about the resistance action in the Lustgarten"
personal data
SURNAME Joachim, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1942
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee