Albert Huttary

Albert Huttary (born December 30, 1908 , † May 25, 1978 ) was an Austrian glass worker and resistance fighter .

biography

Huttary worked in the Brunner glass factory in Brunn am Gebirge and was committed to the KPÖ . After the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and deployed on the Eastern Front, where he defected to the Red Army in April 1942 to resist the Nazi dictatorship. In the Soviet Union he was trained as a paratrooper and on January 6, 1944 he was dropped off in the St. Pölten area to work underground. Since he could not find anyone at his contact address in Vienna, he turned to his family.

He was arrested on March 30, 1944 and transferred to the Small Fortress Theresienstadt . Nine of his family members were also arrested and sent to concentration camps ( kin detention ). His mother and aunt perished in the Ravensbrück concentration camp . His father died in the Dachau concentration camp . In addition to Albert Huttary, many other workers at the Brunner glass factory also resisted National Socialism .

literature

• Brigitte Halbmayr: “It was a matter of course that we helped.” The parachute agents Albert Huttary and Josef Zettler and their supporters - a case study. In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.), Christine Schindler (editor): Yearbook 2009. Lit Verlag, Vienna [among others] 2009, pp. 176–204 ( digitized version ; PDF; 1.3 MB)

Web links

• Albert Huttary on the website memento.wien from the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance