About: Heinz Drossel

An Entity of Type: person, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Heinz Drossel (German: [haɪnts ˈdʁɔsl̩]; 21 September 1916 – 28 April 2008) was a German lieutenant in World War II who was named one of the Righteous Among the Nations, shared with his parents, for helping Jews escape persecution. He was the son of Paul and Elfriede Drossel, both anti-Nazis, and shared their political philosophy. Drafted in November 1939, Drossel served in the Battle of France before serving on the Eastern Front for the rest of the war.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Heinz Droßel, auch Heinz Drossel (* 21. September 1916 in Berlin; † 28. April 2008 in Waldkirch) war im Zweiten Weltkrieg Oberleutnant der deutschen Wehrmacht. Er wurde nach dem Krieg Richter und wurde als Gerechter unter den Völkern ausgezeichnet. (de)
  • Heinz Drossel (* 21 de septiembre de 1916, Berlín – † 28 de abril de 2008, Waldkirch, Alemania) fue un teniente alemán durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial que rehusó afiliarse al partido nazi. Después de la guerra actuó como juez y fue nombrado Justo entre las Naciones. (es)
  • Heinz Drossel (German: [haɪnts ˈdʁɔsl̩]; 21 September 1916 – 28 April 2008) was a German lieutenant in World War II who was named one of the Righteous Among the Nations, shared with his parents, for helping Jews escape persecution. He was the son of Paul and Elfriede Drossel, both anti-Nazis, and shared their political philosophy. Drafted in November 1939, Drossel served in the Battle of France before serving on the Eastern Front for the rest of the war. His philanthropic actions began in 1941, when he saved Soviet prisoners from being executed and secretly released them to return to Soviet lines. While on leave in Berlin in 1942, he started covertly assisting Jews when he found a Jewish woman, Marianne Hirschfeld, about to leap from a bridge. Risking court-martial and execution, he sheltered her in his apartment before giving her money to find a safer place to stay. They married after the war. In 1945 Drossel helped Ernst Fontheim, his wife Margot, and her parents find shelter. He was sent back to the Eastern Front that Spring. On 4 May, just four days before the war would end, he was ordered by the Waffen-SS to lead his troops in a suicidal attack on Soviet positions. Drossel refused, and when threatened with execution he was saved with the capitulation of the Wehrmacht. He was briefly imprisoned by the Soviets and released before the end of the year. In his postwar life, Drossel served as a judge. He married Marianne Hirschfeld, the first Jew whom he had saved. He was named as one of the Righteous Among the Nations in 2000. After receiving the award he often gave inspirational speeches to German children at schools. He died in 2008 in Simonswald. (en)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 15734876 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 2601 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1096419748 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Heinz Droßel, auch Heinz Drossel (* 21. September 1916 in Berlin; † 28. April 2008 in Waldkirch) war im Zweiten Weltkrieg Oberleutnant der deutschen Wehrmacht. Er wurde nach dem Krieg Richter und wurde als Gerechter unter den Völkern ausgezeichnet. (de)
  • Heinz Drossel (* 21 de septiembre de 1916, Berlín – † 28 de abril de 2008, Waldkirch, Alemania) fue un teniente alemán durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial que rehusó afiliarse al partido nazi. Después de la guerra actuó como juez y fue nombrado Justo entre las Naciones. (es)
  • Heinz Drossel (German: [haɪnts ˈdʁɔsl̩]; 21 September 1916 – 28 April 2008) was a German lieutenant in World War II who was named one of the Righteous Among the Nations, shared with his parents, for helping Jews escape persecution. He was the son of Paul and Elfriede Drossel, both anti-Nazis, and shared their political philosophy. Drafted in November 1939, Drossel served in the Battle of France before serving on the Eastern Front for the rest of the war. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Heinz Droßel (de)
  • Heinz Drossel (es)
  • Heinz Drossel (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License