Anton Hechenberger

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Anton Hechenberger (born September 28, 1902 , † November 9, 1923 in Munich ) was a German putschist. He became known as one of the 16 killed participants in the failed Hitler putsch , to which Adolf Hitler dedicated the first part of his book Mein Kampf .

Life and activity

The putschists killed on November 9, 1923 were honored between 1933 and 1945 as " martyrs of the movement " and at the same time instrumentalized by Nazi propaganda ; Hechenberger 1st row from the top, 1st from the left.

Hechenberger learned the trade of locksmith . In the period after the First World War he began to get involved in circles of the radical political right. So he became a member of the German National Guard and Defense Association around 1920 . From January 1, 1921 to July 1922, he was a member of the Reichswehr .

On November 24, 1922, Hechenberger joined the NSDAP . He also became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the street combat unit of the party in which he was assigned to the 6th Company of the Munich SA Regiment.

In November 1923, Hechenberger took part in the failed Hitler putsch in Munich. At noon on November 9, 1923, he was killed during the demonstration march of the putschists through downtown Munich to the Feldherrnhalle when he was fatally injured during the clash of the putschists with the state police on Odeonsplatz , which resulted in an exchange of fire.

Hitler dedicated the first volume of his book Mein Kampf to Hechenberger and 15 other killed coup participants as early as 1925 , in which they are listed by name in the foreword. After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, a plaque with the names of these people was attached to the Feldherrnhalle in Munich, which was flanked by an SS honor guard. Every passer-by who passed this board was obliged to give the Hitler salute in their direction. In 1935, two "Temples of Honor" were erected on Königsplatz as a common grave for this group of people. In the same year, Hechenberger and the rest of the dead were exhumed, transferred there and buried again in bronze sarcophagi. Until 1945 they were included in the National Socialist cult of the " martyrs of the movement ".

Along with Andreas Bauriedl and Lorenz Ritter von Stransky , Hechenberger was one of three of the sixteen putschists who had been killed in the 6th Company of the Munich SA Regiment and whose names were engraved on an honorary cuff that was attached to the shaft of the so-called blood flag - the regimental flag of the 6 Company, which was allegedly soaked in the blood of these three men or one of them during the exchange of fire on November 9th - which from 1926 to 1945 formed a central relic in the hero cult that the National Socialists had over the failed Hitler putsch built up.

Between 1933 and 1945 various streets in the German Reich were named after Hechenberger, e.g. B. in Gelsenkirchen , Hamburg , Leverkusen , Recklinghausen and in Wuppertal . The Reich Labor Service camp in Pfronten bore his name.

literature

  • Jay W. Baird: To Die for Germany. Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon , 1992.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.lwl.org/westfaelische-geschichte/nstopo/strnam/Umbennung_1519_Karte.html
  2. ↑ Hartmut Hohlbein: Hamburg 1945: End of the war, hardship and a new beginning. 1985, p. 135.
  3. ↑ http://stadtleverkusen.com/strasse/index.php?view=Hechenberger
  4. ↑ http://www.lwl.org/westfaelische-geschichte/nstopo/strnam/Umbennung_1329_Karte.html
  5. ↑ Klaus Goebel: Wuppertal in the time of National Socialism , vol. 1, p. 46.
  6. ↑ Inscription above the entrance (postcard)
personal data
SURNAME Hechenberger, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German locksmith and participant in the Hitler putsch
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1902
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1923
Place of death Munich