Bruno Dubber
Bruno Dubber (born November 11, 1910 in Kirchwerder ; † May 6, 1944 in Bremen ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism . The functionary of the Communist Youth League of Germany made (KJVD) resistance work in Austria , was arrested in Vienna in 1938 and to lifelong prison convicted. He died in Bremen prison in 1944.
Life
Dubber, son of a captain , began an apprenticeship as a lathe operator after primary school in 1925 . In the same year he joined the German Metal Workers' Association (DMV) and the KJVD. After the journeyman's examination , he was dismissed and then worked full-time for the KJVD in Hamburg .
In August 1929 Dubber was because of a demonstration against a steel helmet march arrested and served three months in detention , in September 1930, he was indicted and ten months in prison convicted. Dubber fled to Silesia and there, under the name Walter Kardolin, became the head of the KJVD in October 1930. In January 1932 he changed to the same function in the Berlin association leadership of the Central Committee (ZK) of the KJVD. Here he worked closely with Kurt Müller and Alfred Hiller .
After the takeover of the Nazis emigrated Dubber in the spring of 1933, the Soviet Union and was an intern in the Executive Committee of the Communist Youth International (CYI) in Moscow . Since Dubber was close to the Neumann - Remmele group, he was expelled from the Central Committee at the KJVD meeting in Amsterdam in August 1933 and "delegated" to a large company in Sverdlovsk for "probation ". In April 1934 he was allowed to return to Moscow and became an instructor of the KJI.
In September 1934 Dubber, who now carried the party name Walter , entered Austria undercover and worked illegally as an advisor to the Communist Youth Association of Austria (KJVÖ). After Austria was annexed to Germany, Dubber was arrested by the Gestapo in Vienna on November 14, 1938 , severely abused and brought to Berlin two years later. On May 13, 1941, the People's Court sentenced him to life imprisonment. Dubber died of tuberculosis in Bremen penitentiary in 1944 .
literature
- Karl Heinz Jahnke : An Unusual Life: Bruno Dubber (1910–1944). VSA-Verlag Hamburg, 1990, ISBN 3-87975-550-7 .
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
Web links
- Literature about Bruno Dubber in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bruno Dubber On: www.klahrgesellschaft.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herbert Steiner: Bruno Dubber In: From the past of the KPÖ. Records and memories of the history of the party. Vienna, Globus Verlag 1961, pp. 105–114
- ^ Willi Weinert: Bruno Dubber - for his 70th birthday. Notes on the life of the German-born internationalist who was active in the Austrian resistance struggle. In: Weg und Ziel , No. 12/1980, pp. 451–454
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dubber, Bruno |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walter Kardolin (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirchwerder |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1944 |
| Place of death | Bremen |