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Heinrich George | Helmut Kind | Karl Heinrich | Ewald Ernst | Kurt Müller | Alfred Weiland | Arno Wend | Helmut Brandt | Georg Dertinger | Max Fechner | Karl Wilhelm Fricke | Wolfgang Harich | Walter Janka | Walter Linse | Paul Merker | Sigrid Paul | Rudolf Bahro | Heinz Brandt | Jürgen Fuchs | Gerulf Pannach | Michael Sallmann | Hans-Joachim Helwig-Wilson | Bärbel Bohley | Freya Klier | Stephan Krawczyk | Vera Lengsfeld | Ulrike Poppe
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 The long-time police officer Karl Heinrich is one of the first prominent victims of the Special Camp No. 3. He was detained in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen from October until his death in November 1945.
Born in1890 in Munich, Karl Heinrich worked since 1929 as major in the Berlin police. For political reasons he was suspended by the police in 1932. In response to the rise of the Nazis in Berlin, he participated in building of an illegal organization. In 1937, Tthe People's Court sentenced him in a show trial to seven years imprisonment and deprivation of political rights. Part of his time in prison he spent in the notorious camps in the Emsland Moor.
After the war he was appointed as a commander of the Berlin police by the Soviet occupying powers in June 1945. Conflicts arose after the invasion of the Western Allies in the western part of Berlin when he began to oppose the claim to leadership of the Communists. ofIn August 1945 he was arrested by the Soviet secret police in Berlin's police headquarters. The causes for his arrest were different, but were partly politically motivated denunciations. He was assumed to have denounced and beaten other political prisoners during his time in NS prison regime.
By the end of September 1945, the NKVD closed the investigations against Heinrich. According to the indictment, he was accused of several "counter-revolutionary" crimes. There was no hearing before the Military Tribunal of the Berlin garrison because Heinrich became ill while detention. In early October 1945, he was admitted to the special hospital in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, where he died of "paralysis of vital organs" on November 3rd, 1945. His body was buried near the camp on a refuse dump. Today his is remembered by a bridge named after him and a memorial stone in the Berlin district of Steglitz. |
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