- Adam Kuckhoff
Adam Kuckhoff (
30 August 1887 inAachen –5 August 1943 inBerlin -Plötzensee ; executed) was a German writer, journalist, and resistance fighter in the Third Reich.Adam Kuckhoff published a popular edition of the works of
Georg Büchner in 1927, and headed the cultural-political magazineDie Tat ("The Deed") in 1928-1929, which he gave a leftwing democratic flavour. In 1931, he wrote the artistic novel "Scherry" aboutGrock . After that, in 1931-1932, he was a dramatic adviser at the Berliner Schauspielhaus. His main work, the world war novel "Der Deutsche von Bayencourt" ("The German from Bayencourt") appeared in Germany in 1937.Together with his wife Greta and the married couple Arvid and
Mildred Harnack , he conspired to build the resistance group that theGestapo would later call the Red Orchestra ("Rote Kapelle"). On12 September 1942 , he was arrested inPrague .In
East Germany , Kuckhoff was honoured as a resistance fighter. InLeipzig -Grünau a school was named after him. It bore his name from 1985 to 1990.External links
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* [http://www.luise-berlin.de/bms/bmstxt97/9712pord.htm Portrait by Dieter Götze] (in German)Persondata
NAME = Kuckhoff, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = German writer, journalist, and resistance fighter in the Third Reich
DATE OF BIRTH =30 August 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH =Aachen
DATE OF DEATH =5 August 1943
PLACE OF DEATH =Berlin -Plötzensee
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