Heinz Kucharski

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Heinz Kucharski (born July 22, 1919 in Hamburg ; † October 8, 2000 in Markranstädt ) was a German Indologist and a central figure in the Hamburg branch of the White Rose .

Live and act

The son of the engineer Walter Kucharski attended the Hamburg Lichtwark School and took part in the reading groups of Erna Stahl . He dealt intensively with socialist ideas and from 1938 studied philosophy , ethnology and oriental studies . He organized reading evenings at which political writings were discussed. Together with Margaretha Rothe , he made the frequency of the German freedom broadcaster known on leaflets .

Traute Lafrenz , who was also a former Lichtwark student and medical student, brought the White Rose's third leaflet from Munich to Hamburg at the end of 1942 . Kucharski and other members of the group, such as Margaretha Rothe, the bookseller Hannelore Willbrandt , the physician Albert Suhr and the philosophy student Reinhold Meyer , discussed and disseminated this familiar interest among them. Their meeting point was the agency bookstore Rauhen Haus on Jungfernstieg, whose junior manager was Reinhold Meyer.

On November 9, 1943, Heinz Kucharski was arrested by the Gestapo together with Margaretha Rothe . On December 3, 1943 his mother Hildegard Heinrichs and his grandmother Bertha Schmitz were arrested. He was in the Fuhlsbüttel police prison until October 25, 1944 . He was then imprisoned in the Hamburg remand prison. From April 17 to April 20, 1945, the People's Court in Hamburg conducted four trials against the members of the White Rose in Hamburg, but most of the defendants had been released from the Stendal Regional Court Prison and the St. Georgen Bayreuth prison a few days earlier been released. Heinz Kucharski was sentenced to death on April 17, 1945. During the transport to the execution site in the Bützow-Dreibergen prison , there was an attack by English low -flying aircraft near Grevesmühlen on the night of April 20-21 . In the general panic, Kucharski was able to escape and flee to the Red Army .

After 1945, Heinz Kucharski worked as a publishing editor at Paul List Verlag and at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Leipzig . He was listed as an IM lecturer by the Ministry of State Security . He was regarded as a confidante of a group of artists in Leipzig around the writers Siegmar Faust , Gert Neumann , Wolfgang Hilbig , Andreas Reimann , Heide Härtl as well as the painters Dietrich Gnuechel , Michael Flade and Manfred May. On behalf of the Stasi he had succeeded in “their political dissatisfaction to spy on and neutralize ”. Several artists were then arrested.

Later accusation of denouncing during the Nazi era

On September 13, 2009, Katrin Seybold gave a speech on the occasion of the awarding of the Albert Weichmann Medal to Dr. Traute Lafrenz-Page , in which she accused Kucharski of having handed over 30 people (including his own mother, friends like Traute Lafrenz and his former teacher Erna Stahl ) to the Gestapo, who had dictated up to 60 pages for his own Save head; His self-justification was that by naming more and more people there would no longer be a trial for everyone before the end of the war, “a refined, an amoral plan”.

Quote

“We met with Hans' friend Heinz Kucharski, who was studying Indology in Hamburg, and with his friend Gretha Rothe, who I liked very much with her calm, reserved manner. With Heinz Kucharski, however, I found it very difficult. He knew how to speak brilliantly. About Kurt Tucholsky, for example, whose books he had banned by the Nazis he had sent us to Munich. Or about political theories, especially about communism and its salutary teaching. I was amazed at how patiently Hans listened to him and probably believed everything he said. Maybe I only believed half of him. Heinz was too radical and too unreal in his thoughts. With enthusiasm, however, he and Gretha Rothe read the leaflet they had brought with them from the White Rose and immediately agreed to copy it and distribute it among their friends. "

- Marie Luise Jahn : "... and your spirit lives on anyway!"

Works

  • Indian bronzes: From the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig and the author's collection. Leipzig: Prisma 1965 (The Treasury; Vol. 17)
  • San Francisco: Asian art in the museums and collections of San Francisco and the Bay Area. Leipzig: Edition Leipzig 1977

See also

Web links

literature

  • Angela Bottin: Tight time. Traces of displaced and persecuted people at the University of Hamburg. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Audimax of the University of Hamburg from February 22 to May 17, 1991. Hamburg Contributions to the History of Science Volume 11, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-496-00419-3
  • Herbert Diercks : Freedom lives. Resistance and persecution in Hamburg 1933–1945. Texts, photos and documents. Published by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Hamburg City Hall from January 22 to February 14, 2010
  • Biography about Heinz Kucharski, German Resistance Memorial Center 1996–2016, in: https: //www.gdw-berlin-de/vertiefung/biografien/habenverzeichnis/biografie/view-bio/Heinz-Kucharski
  • Ursel Hochmuth : Candidates of Humanity. Documentation on the Hamburg White Rose on the occasion of Hans Leipelt's 50th birthday ; Editor: Association of the anti-fascists and persecuted persons of the Nazi regime Hamburg eV, Hamburg 1971
  • Ursel Hochmuth, Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance. 1933–1945 , second edition, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-87682-036-7
  • Peter Normann Libra: Long live freedom! - Sweet Lafrenz and the White Rose. Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-8251-7809-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne-Sophie Nold: Resistance with all its consequences. A Faustian life in the GDR using the example of the writer Siegmar Faust In: Horch and Guck 13 (1994), pp. 17–30 17–30.pdf full text as .pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , here p. 19@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.horch-und-guck.info  
  2. ↑ Katrin Seybold: Awarding of the Albert Weichmann Medal to Dr. Taute Lafrenz-Page . In: KaLz and Maus - White Rose Foundation eV (Ed.): Yumpu.com . September 13, 2009, p. 2–3 ( yumpu.com [accessed October 3, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Marie Luise Schultze-Jahn: ... and her spirit lives on anyway! Berlin 2003, p. 28, ISBN 3-936411-25-5
personal data
SURNAME Kucharski, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indologist and resistance fighter, member of the White Rose
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 2000
Place of death Markranstädt