Hans Heinrich Kummerow

Hansheinrich Kummerow (also: Hans-Heinrich Kummerow, 27 February 1903 in Magdeburg; 4 February 1944 in Halle) was a scientist and technician, doctor of engineering and resistance fighter against Nazism.

Life Kummerow was born in Magdeburg. His father was Heinrich Kummerow, a Privy Councillor and professor and department head at the Provincial School Board. His mother was Adele Kummerow, née Lejeune. After attending school in Magdeburg and Posen, he graduated from the in Berlin in 1921. From the summer semester of 1921, he first studied music for three semesters. In 16 October 1922, he matriculated at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin and studied mathematics for one semester, but then switched to the Technical University in Charlottenburg in 1923 to completed his studies in chemistry. He finally graduated as an engineer in 1927.

Kummerow is repeatedly wrongly associated with the Oslo Report, which was written by the physicist Hans Ferdinand Mayer, who was employed at Siemens at the time.

According to the Berliner Morgenpost, "the engineer Hans-Heinrich Kummerow planned an assassination attempt on the Nazi propaganda minister" Joseph Goebbels in 1942. Kummerow planned to place a mine under the bridge leading to Goebbels' property on the island of Schwanenwerder and to detonate it remotely.

Arrest Kummerow was arrested in 30 November 1942 and sentenced to death by the 3rd senate of the Reich Military Court on 18 December 1942. On 4 February 1944, he was beheaded with a guillotine in Halle.