Adam Kuckhoff was a German writer, journalist, and resistance fighter in the Third Reich

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

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Adam Kuckhoff published a popular edition of the works of Georg Büchner

Georg Büchner

Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany...

 in 1927, and headed the cultural-political magazine Die Tat

Die Tat

Die Tat was a monthly publication of politics and culture. It was founded in April 1909 and its publisher was Eugen Diederichs from Jena. From 1939 until 1944 Die Tat was continued as Das XX. Jahrhundert.-1909-1912:...

 ("The Deed") in 1928-1929, which he gave a leftwing democratic flavour. In 1931, he wrote the artistic novel Scherry about Grock

Grock

Grock , born Charles Adrien Wettach, was a Swiss clown, composer and musician. Called "the king of clowns" and "the greatest of Europe's clowns", Grock was once the most highly paid entertainer in the world....

. 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

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 in 1937.

Together with his wife Greta and the married couple Arvid

Arvid Harnack

Arvid Harnack was a German jurist, economist, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany.- Early years :...

 and Mildred Harnack

Mildred Harnack

Mildred Fish-Harnack was an American-German literary historian, translator, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany.- Life in the United States:...

, he conspired to build the resistance group that the Gestapo

Gestapo

The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...

 would later call the Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle). On 12 September 1942, he was arrested in Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

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In East Germany, Kuckhoff was honoured as a resistance fighter. In Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

-Grünau a school was named after him. It bore his name from 1985 to 1990.

External links

• Portrait by Dieter Götze (in German)