A postcard that was posted in Korea on Tuesday the 20th. November 1906. It was sent to:
Miss Violet Smith, 16, Ashgrove Road, Redland, Bristol, England.
There was no message, as the recipient's name and address stretched across the undivided back of the card.
Herbert Bochow
So what else happened on the day that Min posted the card?
Well, the 20th. November 1906 marked the birth of Herbert Bochow. Herbert was a German communist writer and resistance fighter.
-- Herbert Bochow - The Early Years
Herbert Bochow was born in to a middle-class family. He initially belonged to the völkisch movement and was a member of the Young German Order.
While studying philosophy in Leipzig, he came into contact with socialist students and artists, which led him to devote himself to the study of Marxism.
-- Herbert Bochow's Communist Links
In 1929 Herbert became a member of the Communist Party of Germany, which resulted in his family cutting further financial support for his studies.
Bochow then earned his living as a clerical employee, and began to use his artistic talent for political struggle.
He wrote poems, novels and plays, and also composed a cantata on the Communist Manifesto and scenes for the Leipzig agitprop troops of the KPD.
He became a member of the Association of Proletarian-Revolutionary Authors after its founding.
-- Herbert Bochow and the Nazis
After the Nazis came to power, Bochow was arrested and placed in “protective detention”. He was held in the Sachsenburg concentration camp until May 1934.
After his release, Bochow joined the resistance against Nazism. In November 1934, he was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
After his release in the summer of 1936, Herbert found connections with the KPD underground organization in Dresden. With the painter Fritz Schulze, Bochow tried to establish contacts with non-communist opponents of Hitler.
The resulting resistance group in Dresden and Leipzig had more than 60 members of mostly artists and intellectuals. The circle included the painters Albert Hensel and Eva Schulze-Knabe, and the electrician Karl Stein.
From 1940, Bochow also came into contact, via Elisabeth Pungs, with the Rütli group around Hanno Günther in Berlin.
In June 1941, Bochow was arrested for the third time. After weeks of interrogation and torture, on the 11th. March 1942, Herbert Bochow, Fritz Schulze and Albert Hensel were convicted of "high treason" and sentenced to death.
In his farewell letter of the 13th. May 1942 to his wife Hanni, Herbert wished his son Frank a "strong and manly attitude towards all blows of fate."
All three men were executed on the 5th. June in Plötzensee prison in Berlin.
Herbert's son Frank later became a diplomat and politician in East Germany.
Since 1968, Herbert-Bochow-Strasse in Leipzig-Probstheida has commemorated the resistance fighter.
There was also a Herbert-Bochow-Strasse in Dresden, although after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was renamed Zirkusstrasse.
Since 1972, a polytechnic high school in Dresden was named after Herbert Bochow, but it has been named after Marie Curie since 1996 as part of the ban on commemoration of communist resistance fighters.
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