Max Joachim Hänel
Max Joachim Hänel (born July 25, 1929 in Johanngeorgenstadt ) is a German civil engineer and writer.
Life
Joachim Hänel was born as the son of the white tanner and house owner Max Hänel on Hohegenister Straße in the Saxon mountain town of Johanngeorgenstadt in the Upper Ore Mountains , where he also attended elementary school. He then switched to high school in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. At the end of the Second World War, Johanngeorgenstadt was not occupied and shared the fate of the later so-called Republic of Schwarzenberg . Immediately after the occupation of the area by Soviet troops, Joachim Hänel and several 16- and 17-year-old youths from Johanngeorgenstadt were denounced, then arrested and imprisoned for several years in special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg by the NKVD / MWD and later committed to forced labor in Siberia . The experiences of this difficult time shaped his life and were later recorded in writing by him in two publications.
After he was able to return to the newly founded GDR in 1950, he found work at SDAG Wismut as a technical employee in uranium mining. As such, he experienced the demolition of the historic old town of Johanngeorgenstadt from 1953, from which his parents' house was spared. In 1954, Joachim Hänel began studying engineering at the engineering school in Glauchau , which he later continued and successfully completed in Cottbus . From 1957 he worked as a civil engineer in various companies and state building administrations. In 1961 he decided to leave the GDR and moved to Baden-Württemberg , where he got a job in a civil engineering and hydraulic engineering authority.
Since the mid-1990s, he has been working as a writer after he retired. After his childhood memories, he published his first and so far only novel in 2012.
Works
- Rubble from the Lech . Dessau, Manuela Kinzel Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-937367-71-2
- Between Soviet power and the wolves. A life and death adventure. Memories . Munich, Friedmann, 2003.
- In the wake of chaos. Jugenderinnerungen , Aalen, Wir-Verlag Walter Weller, undated [approx. 1995].
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hänel, Max Joachim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hänel, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Johanngeorgenstadt |