Max Tschornicki

Max Tschornicki ( born August 9, 1903 in Rüsselsheim, † April 20, 1945 in the sub-camp Allach ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism. He was next to Wilhelm Vogel the only prisoner who managed to escape from the concentration camp Osthofen.

Life

Max Tschornicki grew up as the son of Russian immigrants. He was an orthodox Jew educated and was a member of several Jewish youth organizations. As a student, he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany ( USPD ) in. Later he became a member of the SPD and the Reichsbanner black-red- gold. He attended a grammar school in Mainz and then studied law. As a lawyer, he worked in and around Mainz and defended primarily SPD and Reichsbanner members.

Tschornicki was a committed fighter against the Nazis. On 24 May 1933 he was arrested on the basis of the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State, and came to the concentration camp Osthofen, which was built as one of the first concentration camps by the Nazis. As a Jew and member of the SPD, he was doubly hated by the thugs of the Sturmabteilung and the Schutzstaffel, which formed the local guards. With the help of the Communists Philipp choice and Reichsbanner members Christopher Weitz, two fellow prisoner, and his fiancee on July 3, 1933 he managed to escape from the concentration camp. His flight had far-reaching consequences. Not only guarding the concentration camps was reinforced a suspension is imposed, as well as visit some prisoners severely punished, even his family was taken into " protective custody".

Tschornicki initially fled to the Saar, which was then still managed as a mandated territory of the League of Nations, and from there to Toulouse, later to Lyon. After the German occupation of France in 1940, he joined the French Resistance. He was arrested in 1944. On August 11, 1944 Tschornicki came to the Auschwitz concentration camp, followed by transfers to other concentration camps. On April 20, 1945, he died in Allach, a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp, dysentery, only nine days before the liberation of the concentration camps by Allied troops.

The Chawwerusch theater in Herxheim machined 2013 Tschornickis life story into a play, which works with texts by Seghers, Stéphane Hessel, Walter Benjamin and Wolf Biermann's transfer of workers Yiddish song Sol Sajn. The piece was in the concentration camp memorial Osthofen aufgeführt.www.gedenkstaette - Osthofen - rlp.de

Www.gedenkstaette - Osthofen - rlp.de == References ==

  • Lawyer ( Germany )
  • SPD member
  • USPD member
  • Member of Reichsbanner
  • Resistance fighters
  • Victims of the Holocaust
  • Prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp
  • Deaths in Dachau concentration camp
  • Emigrant from the German Empire at the time of National Socialism
  • German
  • Born in 1903
  • Died in 1945
  • Man
  • Person ( resistance to National Socialism )
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