Joachim Gottschalk
- Horrible Death of Famous German Actor & His Family - Nazi Germany - World War 2

21 March 2022

Category: Nazi Victims

Joachim Gottschalk was born on 10 April 1904 in Calau - the Prussian province of Brandenburg. During his theater engagement in Stuttgart, he met actress, Meta Wolff. They married on May 3, 1930 and their son Michael was born in February, 1933. It was at the time when Adolf Hitler came into power and their life changed dramatically. Shortly after the Nazis took power, they established The Reich Chamber of Culture in August 1933. Only its members had the right to work in a theater profession in the German Reich and a prerequisite for membership was the "Aryan certificate" which confirmed that a person belonged to the presumed Aryan race.

Involvement of Joseph Goebbels

However, Joachim’s wife Meta was Jewish and as such, she was forbidden to work as an actress. In 1938 Gottschalk started his film career starring in the movie “ You and I “ next to Brigitte Horney – a famous German actress. Because his wife was a Jew, Joachim Gottschalk was ordered to divorce her. When Gottschalk refused, Goebbels ordered Meta and their son to be deported into Theresienstadt concentration camp. On November 6, 1941, minutes before the Gestapo came, Joachim and his wife had sedated their son Michael and themselves with sleeping pills and turned on the poisoning gas killing all 3 of them. The evil Joseph Goebbels wanted to have the last word even after their death. Participation in the funeral was forbidden, and the Gestapo photographed the participants.

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