John Gluck

Hans Rudolf (John) Gluck (* 17th February 1906 in Johannesburg , South Africa ; † 6. July 1952 in Johannesburg) was a medical assistant in the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg and a member of in opposition to the Nazi regime standing candidates of humanity . He belonged to the resistance group of what later became known as the White Rose Hamburg .

Gluck was arrested in July 1943 and severely abused by the Gestapo for months in the Fuhlsbüttel police prison . He was, there was no charge against him, instead, on June 6, 1944 as protection of prisoners in the Neuengamme concentration camp admitted. A few weeks later he was transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp ; Frederick Geussenhainer , who was also imprisoned in connection with the White Rose, was on this transport . On May 5, 1945, Gluck was liberated there by American troops. He did not recover from the effects of his imprisonment and died in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1952.

The ill-treatment of John Gluck by the deputy commander of the police prison Fuhlsbüttel, Willi Tessmann , and the SS lieutenant Hans Reinhardt were the subject of the so-called Fuhlsbüttel process ( Fuhlsbüttel Case No. 2 ), of from 1 to September 24, 1947 in Curiohaus against ten former Gestapo officers from the police prison.

Publications

• About the connection of senile mental disorders with experience factors of affective resp. situational type , dissertation, Berlin. de Gruyter, 1941

literature

• Mechtild Bausch: All the slain, who lives for them? taz article from August 21, 1992 accessed on October 21, 2010
• 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

See also

• People of the White Rose Hamburg