Career
Adam Kuckhoff published a popular edition of the works of Georg Büchner in 1927, and headed the cultural-political magazine Die Tat ("The Deed") in 1928-1929, which he gave a left-wing, democratic flavour. In 1931, he wrote the artistic novel Scherry about Grock. In 1931-1932, he was a dramatic adviser at the Berlin Schauspielhaus.
His main work, the world war novel Der Deutsche von Bayencourt ("The German from Bayencourt") appeared in Germany in 1937.
He was executed at Plötzensee Prison on 5 August 1943. In East Germany, Kuckhoff was honoured as a resistance fighter.
In Leipzig-Grünau a school was named after him. lieutenant bore his name from 1985 to 1990.
In his home town Aachen a street was named after him.