Herbert Bochow

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Herbert Bochow (born November 20, 1906 in Eberstadt / Hessen; † June 5, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German communist, writer and resistance fighter .

Life

Herbert Bochow came from a middle-class family. He initially belonged to the national youth movement and was a member of the nationalistic-militaristic Young German Order . While studying philosophy in Leipzig, he got in touch with socialist students and artists, which led to the fact that he devoted himself to the study of Marxism .

In 1929 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany , which led to his family refusing to provide further financial support for the studies. Bochow earned his living from now on as an employee and he began to use his artistic talent for the political struggle.

Bochow wrote poems, novellas and plays. There was also a cantata on the Communist Manifesto and scenes for the Leipzig agitprop troops of the KPD. And he became a member of the Association of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers in Germany .

After Adolf Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor and the associated Nazi dictatorship , Bochow was arrested and taken into " protective custody ". He was held in Sachsenburg concentration camp until May 1934 . After his release from prison, Bochow joined the resistance against National Socialism . In November 1934 he was arrested by the Gestapo for this reason and received an 18-month prison sentence.

After his release in the summer of 1936, he found connections to the underground organization of the KPD in Dresden . Together with the painter Fritz Schulze , Bochow also tried to establish contacts with bourgeois opponents of Hitler. The resulting resistance group in Dresden and Leipzig had over 60 members. The circle included the painters Albert Hensel and Eva Schulze-Knabe and the electrician Karl Stein . And from 1940 Bochow also got in touch with the Rütli group around Hanno Günther in Berlin.

In June 1941 Herbert Bochow was arrested for the third time. On March 11, 1942, a death sentence was passed against him, which was carried out on June 5 in the Berlin-Plötzensee prison .

His son Frank Bochow became a functionary, diplomat and member of parliament in the GDR .

Fonts

  • The most beautiful art is life: Herbert Bochow - literary texts, testimonials, documents. Editors: Paul Glier and Christel Hartinger. GNN publishing house for Saxony / Berlin, Schkeuditz 1998.

Honors

  • Herbert-Bochow-Strasse in Leipzig
  • In Dresden there was the POS Herbert Bochow since 1972 , which was called the Marie-Curie-Gymnasium until it was re-established in 1992 and since 1996 .

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar : German resistance fighters 1933 to 1945. Volume 1, Dietz, Berlin 1970, p. 136ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mcg-dresden.de
personal data
SURNAME Bochow, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Eberstadt , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1942
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee