Paul Hatschek (11 March 1888 – 15 May 1944) was a Czech engineer of optical and film technology and a member of the German Resistance against Nazism during the Third Reich.
He was arrested in 1943 and subjected to intensive interrogation, resulting in him giving the Nazis numerous names of fellow resistance members.
[4] Though he followed the 1936 Summer Olympics, apparently without criticism of the Third Reich, by 1939, he had decided to join the resistance group, the European Union.
The German historian Bernd Florath writes, "The Czech citizen Hatschek was an engineer in optics and film technology.
Among others, he worked with Manfred von Ardenne and Hugh John Gramatzki, who corresponded with Albert Einstein.
[10] Hatschek was tried with his daughter, Krista Lavíčková, a secretary, on 27 March 1944 and was sentenced to death at the Nazi "People's Court" (Volksgerichtshof).
[11] On 4 November 1944 the People's Court brought his wife to trial for her connections to the European Union and Wehrkraftzersetzung and sentenced to death.