Helmut Hirsch

Who was Helmut Hirsch?

Helmut Hirsch was a German Jew who was executed for his part in a bombing plot intended to destabilize the German Reich. Although a full and accurate account of the plot is unknown, his targets were understood to be the Nazi party headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, and/or the plant where the antisemitic weekly propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer was printed.

Hirsch was the elder of the two children of Marta Neuburger Hirsch and Siegfried Hirsch.

In 1935, after the newly introduced antisemitic Nuremberg Laws excluded the Jews from German universities, he moved to Prague, the capital of what was then Czechoslovakia. He was nineteen when he enrolled as a student of architecture at the Deutsche Technische Hochschule there.