Heinz Strelow (born 15 July 1915 in Hamburg, died 13 May 1943 in Plötzensee Prison)[1] was a German journalist, soldier and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime.

[2][3] Strelow grew up in Hamburg and attended the left-leaning co-educational Lichtwark School [de] in the Winterhude ward.

Strelow was influenced by a teacher while he was in 11th grade in school (aged 16), so he became a member of the banned Young Communist League of Germany (KJVD) in 1932.

[7] Strelow continued his resistance activity in the workers' youth movement and organized a Hamburg group that also had contacts with Klaus Bücking [de] and Gustav Böhrnsen in Bremen.

This brought Strelow into contact with the instructor of the northern section leadership of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), Conrad Blenkle [de].

[16] While on her way to her father's ceramic studio, she noticed that the last carriage of the trains that stopped at her local S-Bahn station, contained French prisoners of war.

Van Beek and Strelow revised and copyedited the six-page "Die Sorge Um Deutschlands Zukunft geht durch das Volk!

leaflet that Schulze-Boysen and several other people in the group, had drafted it, in 15 February 1942,[16] to produce a master copy, that was typed up by Maria Terwiel, on her typewriter[17] for duplication in a mimeograph machine.

On 18 January 1943, she was found guilty at the Reichskriegsgericht military court of "abetting a conspiracy to commit high treason" and sentenced to death.