Joachim von Zedtwitz

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Joachim Ulrich Max August Graf von Zedtwitz (born June 11, 1910 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † October 10, 2001 in Götighofen ) was a Righteous Among the Nations . As a doctor, he helped people flee during the Nazi era.

Life

Von Zedtwitz came from the von Zedtwitz family . After the annexation of Austria he went to Prague . There he got to know Milena Jesenská , who helped threatened and persecuted Jews to flee from her apartment in Kouřimská 6 after the " smashing of the rest of the Czech Republic" . Zedtwitz repeatedly brought Jews via Mährisch-Ostrau to the border to Poland in his car , from where they were brought to temporary security by local smugglers. Those rescued included Rudolf Keller (editor-in-chief of Prager Tagblatt ), Julius Hollos (editor of Prager Mittags ), Walter Tschuppik (writer and owner of Prager Monday ), Elfriede Menne (wife of a writer who wrote a book against Krupp) Dr. Behrend from Danzig, the Rabl brothers, the niece of the banker Petschek with a small child, Rudolf Steiner, Markievicz, W. Spencer-Kraus, Maria Krtilova, Evzen Klinger (writer), Bonka Krieger, Franzi Rippl (wife of a Czech book publisher) and Fritz Beer (later president of the PEN center for German-speaking authors abroad) .

After this escape aid option had already been closed, Zedtwitz was arrested by the Gestapo in March 1940 and questioned about his relationship with Jesenská. Since the Secret State Police did not know his own involvement in the rescue operations, he was released in August 1941, also because he successfully simulated an illness. He then spent some time in psychiatric institutions. He later worked as an internist in various places in Germany . In Berlin he was temporarily in contact with a resistance group.

After the annexation of Austria, von Zedtwitz gave up his German citizenship and did not request it again later. After the communists came to power in 1948, he left Czechoslovakia and went to Switzerland as a stateless person. He was naturalized in Switzerland in the 1980s .

Works

  • Joachim Graf Zedtwitz: On the threshold of the third millennium. And the task of Germany's Goetighofen: Neuschloss, around 1985.
  • Joachim Graf Zedtwitz: The grimace cutter of Zurich and other stories. Frankfurt am Main: Haag and Herchen 1991
  • Joachim Graf Zedtwitz: Order cross and Star of David. Tomorrow's Europe. Goetighofen, 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.william1.co.uk/h27.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.zedtwitz.com/cgi/stb.pl?mode=persdata?lang=de?index=2
  3. ↑ http://www.maislinger.net/gerechte/bedrohte_antifa.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.lettertothestars.at/righteous_pers.php?ctype=1&uid=25
personal data
SURNAME Zedtwitz, Joachim von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zedtwitz, Joachim Ulrich Max August Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION stateless resistance fighter against National Socialism, Righteous Among the Nations
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2001
Place of death Götighofen