Bartholomäus (Barthel) Schink (; November 27, 1927 – November 10, 1944) was a member of the
Edelweiss Pirates, active in the
Ehrenfeld Group
The Ehrenfeld Group (german: Ehrenfelder Gruppe, ; sometimes called the Steinbrück Group, german: Steinbrück-Gruppe, ) was an anti-Nazi resistance group, active in the summer and autumn of 1944.
The group, which consisted of over one hundred pe ...
(
Ehrenfeld is a district of
Cologne) in Cologne, which resisted the
Nazi regime. He was among the 13 members of that group who were publicly hanged in Cologne by the
Gestapo on 10 November 1944. Although they were not tried, the group was accused of killing five people and planning an attack on the ''
EL-DE Haus
EL-DE Haus, officially the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne, located in Cologne, is the former headquarters of the Gestapo and now a museum documenting the Third Reich.
The building was at first the business premises of jewell ...
'', the local Gestapo headquarters.
The street in the Ehrenfeld suburb of Cologne, next to the
Ehrenfeld railway station where Schink was hanged, is named after Schink.
recognized Barthel Schink as
Righteous Among the Nations for risking his life to hide Jews from the Nazi persecution.
[Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), March 20, 2004]
Die Edelweisspiraten
/ref> There is a memorial plaque honoring the memory of all those killed from the Edelweiss Pirates and the Ehrenfeld Group.
See also
* List of Germans who resisted Nazism
References
Further reading
* Alexander Goeb: ''Er war sechzehn, als man ihn hängte. Das kurze Leben des Widerstandskämpfers Bartholomäus Schink.''
* Bernd-A. Rusinek: ''Gesellschaft in der Katastrophe - Terror, Illegalität, Widerstand Köln 1944/45.'' Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Neueren Landesgeschichte und zur Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalens, Band 24, Klartext-Verlag,
External links
bartholomäus Schink
1927 births
1944 deaths
Executed German Resistance members
People from Cologne
People from the Rhine Province
Executed people from North Rhine-Westphalia
People executed by Nazi Germany by hanging
People from North Rhine-Westphalia executed by Nazi Germany
German Righteous Among the Nations
{{nazi-stub