Andreas Hoevel

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Andreas Hoevel , also André Hoevel (born February 24, 1900 in Pallien , today Trier , † August 28, 1942 in Frankfurt-Preungesheim ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Stumbling blocks for the Hoevel couple in Trierer Str. 97 in Koblenz

Andreas Hoevel registered as a war volunteer, began studying agriculture and economics at the University of Bonn in 1919 and worked as an agricultural administrator in the USA from 1920 to 1927 .

After returning to Germany , he worked as an industrial clerk in Berlin until 1929 . In 1930 he became department head at the Opel works in Wiesbaden and was a KPD functionary. Arrested by the National Socialists in 1933, he was in prison until 1935, imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp until 1938 , and after his release he formed a political resistance group that, starting from Wiesbaden, maintained contacts as far as Koblenz and Berlin. He spread the news of the BBC especially among members of the armed forces . He had close relationships with the anti-fascist Lieutenant Kleinz and the communist soldier Rudolf Steinwand .

On November 30, 1941, Hoevel and his wife Anneliese were arrested in Koblenz and sentenced to death on June 26, 1942 at the Higher Regional Court of Kassel together with Margarete Noetzel and Jakob Newinger from Koblenz for “preparing a treasonable company and a crime against the ordinance on extraordinary broadcasting measures ” . In the early hours of August 28, 1942, the convicts were in the penitentiary Frankfurt-Preungesheim by the guillotine executed.

He was the model for one of the protagonists of the concentration camp novel Nackt unter Wölfen (1958) by Bruno Apitz .

Honors / nominations

  • In Frankfurt a. M. in the Nordend-West district, a street was named "Anneliese-Hoevel-Straße".
  • In Koblenz, a street in the Rauental district was named "Hoevelstraße".
  • Stolpersteine ​​for André Hoevel and Anneliese Hoevel have been laid in front of Herderstrasse 10 in Wiesbaden.
  • In his birthplace Trier- Pallien a street was named "Andreas Hoevel-Straße".
  • "Trier Memorial" commemorates Andreas Hoevel with a memorial page.
  • In the workshop leader Trier Nazism the couple Hoevel is a dedicated section.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the KPD's military policy (1918–1945), Military Publishing House of the GDR, 1987, p. 363
  2. ↑ Wiesbaden Stolpersteine: Active Museum Spiegelgasse
  3. ↑ Memorial page in the Trier memorial
  4. Jump up ↑ Trier's leader during National Socialism. 3rd edition, Trier 2005, pp. 138-139.
personal data
SURNAME Hoevel, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoevel, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1942
Place of death Frankfurt-Preungesheim