Josef Höhn (resistance fighter)

Josef Höhn (born March 27, 1902 in Falkenberg ; † January 29, 1945 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison ) was a German resistance fighter .

Life

Memorial plaque on the house Börnestrasse 20, in Berlin-Weißensee

Josef Höhn was the son of the master carpenter Josef Höhn and his wife Ida, née Eckert. Together with his parents and nine siblings, he moved to Berlin in 1908 . After graduating from elementary school, Josef Höhn learned the trade of precision mechanic . He then worked in companies in Berlin, including Siemens apparatus and mechanical engineering in Marienfelde .

Josef Höhn married Selma Köllner in 1924 (October 12, 1904 to November 1, 1988). They had two children together: Werner (* 1926) and Brigitte (* 1940).

Hoehn was a member of the KPD and even led after the " seizure " of the Nazis an operational cell of his party. In the summer of 1933 he was arrested and sentenced to five months in prison. After his release, he continued to resist the Nazi regime.

After waves of arrests against the resistance groups around Robert Uhrig in February and around Wilhelm Guddorf and John Sieg in autumn 1942, Josef Höhn again managed to find a connection to a larger resistance group and to move his "illegal" cell into the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization to involve.

Höhn was arrested on July 21, 1944 and sentenced to the maximum sentence by the People's Court on December 18, 1944 for “preparing for high treason”.

Honors

• In Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen there is Josef-Höhn-Straße

Web links

Commons : Josef Höhn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Josef Höhn in the Lichtenberg Museum