Alfred Huth (resistance fighter)

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Monument in Floridsdorf

Alfred Huth (born August 30, 1918 in Vienna ; † April 8, 1945 there ) was a captain in the German armed forces and a member of the military resistance against National Socialism .

Life

Biedermann-Huth-Raschke barracks in Vienna-Penzing

Towards the end of the Second World War , Huth joined, together with Major Karl Biedermann and First Lieutenant Rudolf Raschke, the resistance group of Austrian members of the Wehrmacht, headed by Major Carl Szokoll , within the military district command  XVII. In the spring of 1945 they planned the “ Operation Radetzky ”, the aim of which was to support the Red Army in the liberation of Vienna and to prevent major destruction. But the "Operation Radetzky" planned for April 6, 1945 was betrayed.

On April 6, 1945, Huth was arrested in the building of the Vienna Military District Command XVII at Universitätsstrasse 7, but acquitted together with Rudolf Raschke at the subsequent trial court hearing against Karl Biedermann. However, on the instructions of the Reich Defense Commissioner Colonel General of the Waffen SS, Sepp Dietrich , Huth and Raschke were brought before an SS and police court and sentenced to death on April 8, 1945 .

On the same day, Huth and two other members of the military resistance, Major Karl Biedermann and Rudolf Raschke , were publicly hanged at Floridsdorfer Spitz in Vienna . The Viennese chief of the security police and SD Rudolf Mildner personally assumed command at the place of execution. The execution was carried out by Viennese Gestapo officials under the command of SS-Obersturmführer Franz Kleedorfer (* 1908).

Huth was buried on August 2, 1945 - together with Karl Biedermann and Rudolf Raschke - in Vienna at the Hietzingen cemetery in an honorary grave (group 66, row 19, number 5).

Honors

In 1967 the Kleine Breitenseer Kaserne in Vienna-Penzing was named after Biedermann and his two colleagues Alfred Huth and Rudolf Raschke in "Biedermann-Huth-Raschke-Kaserne". In 1992, in the 21st district of Vienna Floridsdorf the Alfred Huth alley named after him.

literature

  • Carl Szokoll: The rescue of Vienna in 1945. My life, my part in the conspiracy against Hitler and in the liberation of Austria. Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2001 ISBN 3-85002-472-5 .
  • Michael Krassnitzer: Resistance in Hietzing. The fight for freedom 1934–1938 and 1938–1945 using the example of a Viennese district . Edition Volkshochschule, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-900799-58-X .
  • Friedrich Vogl: Resistance in a tunic. Austrian freedom fighters in the German Wehrmacht 1938–1945. Vienna: Europaverl. 1977 (materials on the labor movement, 7), p. 67 ff.
  • Otto Molden: The call of conscience. the Austrian struggle for freedom 1938–1945. Contributions to the history of the Austrian resistance movement. Vienna [u. a.]: Herold 1958, register
  • Peter Schubert: The Austrian scene. Topographic lexicon on contemporary history in three volumes. Volume 1: Vienna. Hollinek 1976, register

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Huth in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ↑ Thomas Mang: 'Gestapo Headquarters Vienna - My name is Huber'. Who was locally responsible for the murder of the Jews of Vienna ?, Vienna 2003, p. 131, ISBN 3-8258-7259-9 .
  3. ^ SS-Obersturmführer and Criminal Secretary of the Gestapo Vienna Franz Kleedorfer.
  4. ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance.
  5. ^ Alfred-Huth-Gasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Huth, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1945
Place of death Vienna , Austria