Heinrich George

Only in 1994 they found the remains of Heinrich George in a forest because of a hint of a cell mate. Due to a DNA analysis he could be identified. He found his last resting-place at the cemetery of Berlin-Zehlendorf.

After World War II, he and his wife Berta Drews were imprisoned by the Soviet Army in June 1945, first in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, then in the former Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen, where he died during an appendix operation in September 1946. His remains were found and identified in an unmarked mass grave in a forest near Sachsenhausen in 1994.

Formed his own production company at Tobis in 1942.

Although being active in Germany's Communist Party before the Nazi takeover, he later played in a number of propaganda films before and during World War II, including Our Flags Lead Us Forward (1933) and Jud Süß (1940).

On account of his great success in Germany he was engaged to Hollywood in 1931 where he acted in two German-language versions of American movies.

He was an actor and producer, known for Metropolis (1927), Burning Hearts (1945) and Die Degenhardts (1944). He was married to Berta Drews.

In 1923 he founded together with Elisabeth Bergner and Alexander Granach the Schauspieltheater in order to be more independent from the big theaters. Finally it was only a question of time till the film business came to knock at his door.

George is noted for having spooked the young Bertolt Brecht in his first directing job, a production of Arnolt Bronnen's Parricide (1922), when he refused to continue working with the director.

Performed on stage under Germany's most famous left-wing directors Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator in the 1920s.

Served in the German army as a volunteer during World War I, repatriated after being severely wounded in 1917.

Heinrich George was born on October 9, 1893 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany as Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz.