- Born
- DiedSeptember 25, 1946 · Soviet Special Camp No. 7, Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany (malnutrition preventing recovery from an appendectomy)
- Birth nameGeorg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz
- Heinrich George was born on October 9, 1893 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor and producer, known for Metropolis (1927), Burning Hearts (1945) and Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931). He was married to Berta Drews. He died on September 25, 1946 in Soviet Special Camp No. 7, Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany.
- SpouseBerta Drews(1932 - September 26, 1946) (his death)
- Children
- 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.
- Some published reports state that George actually died of starvation in the Soviet detention camp of Sachsenhausen. According to these, the authorities pressured the camp physician to report the death as following an appendectomy.
- 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).
- Father of actor Götz George (born 23 July 1938).
- Is buried in the Städtischer Friedhof Berlin-Zehlendorf.
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