Heinrich Schroth


Heinrich August Franz Schroth was a German stage and film actor.

Career

Schroth was born in Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He made his acting debut at the Sigmaringen Royal Theatre in 1890. In 1894 he went to the Municipal Theatre in Augsburg, in 1896 to Mainz and in 1897 to the Royal Court Theatre in Hanover. From 1899 to 1905, he spent six years as a part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and from 1905 onwards at various Berlin theatres.
Schroth made his film debut in the 1916 Walter Schmidthässler-directed drama Welker Lorbeer. He spent the 1910s in numerous German silent film productions, working with such directors as George Jacoby, Robert Wiene and Harry Piel. His career in the 1920s was prolific, and he appeared opposite such silent film actors as Lil Dagover, Emil Jannings, Paul Wegener and Brigitte Helm and transitioned to sound film with ease.
During World War II Heinrich Schroth participated in a large number of film productions for the Nazi Party, including propaganda films for the Nazi regime. In the final phase of the Second World War, Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels placed Schroth on the Gottbegnadeten list, a 36-page list of artists considered crucial to Nazi culture. Schroth's most memorable role of the World War II era is possibly that of the role of Herr von Neuffer in the 1940 Veit Harlan-directed, anti-Semitic melodrama Jud Süß, commissioned by Joseph Goebbels.
Schroth's stage and film career spanned five decades. He died in January 1945.

Personal life

Heinrich Schroth was married three times. Little is known of his first wife. The couple had a son, Heinz Schroth. His second wife was Else Ruttersheim, a noblewoman and aspiring actress from Ljubljana, with whom he had a son, actor and director Carl-Heinz Schroth in 1902. His third wife was German actress Käthe Haack, with whom he had a daughter, actress Hannelore Schroth in 1922.

Selected filmography

The Queen's Love Letter The Queen's Secretary Dr. Hart's Diary as Dr. Robert HartThe Nun and the Harlequin The Rolling Hotel as Joe DeebsCountess Kitchenmaid as Count GyllenhandThe Salamander Ruby as AttenhoferPut to the Test as Count von Steinitz,The Rat as Joe DeebsOut of the Depths as the AmericanMadeleine The Muff as Joe DeebsThe Skull of Pharaoh's Daughter Respectable Women Demon Blood The Eyes as the Accuser as Detective Bill RoidMy Wife's Diary Jim Cowrey is Dead The Drums of Asia as HopkinsLove and Passion The False Dimitri as JurjewShadows of the Past as Henrik Krag Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King as the Count of OrléansThe Strumpet's Plaything The Homecoming of Odysseus All for Money as the director of the Phönix-WerkeThe Sensational Trial as the "Contestable Existence"And Yet Luck Came Horrido The Heart of Lilian Thorland Living Buddhas as Dr. SmithPeople to Each Other The Great Duchess as SteenbergTea Time in the Ackerstrasse The Poacher as Count OetzbachThe Lady with the Tiger Skin as Henry SeymorPrinz Louis Ferdinand as YorckThe Great Adventuress Alraune as a bar patronThe President as Deon RamirezMisled Youth as the commissionerAtlantik as Harry von Schroeder1914 as War Minister von FalkenhaynBerlin-Alexanderplatz The Fate of Renate Langen as SchrottThe Captain from Köpenick as the police chiefNo Money Needed Man Without a Name The First Right of the Child Girls of Today A City Upside Down as RevisionsratWilliam Tell as the Imperial commanderAt the Strasbourg as the commandantStradivari The Foolish Virgin as ProfessorThe Schimeck Family The Emperor's Candlesticks as conspiratorUncle Bräsig as Karl HawermannThe Traitor as the general manager of T-MetallwerkeWoman's Love—Woman's Suffering as the attending physicianThe Coral Princess as Dr. MilichThe Ruler as Direktor HoferUrlaub auf Ehrenwort as the lieutenant ColonelComrades at Sea as the capitain of the MaranaCovered Tracks as Count Duval