Emil Hübner (resistance fighter)

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Emil Hübner (born March 26, 1862 in Berlin ; † August 5, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

From 1905 he was a member of the SPD . In 1919 he joined the KPD together with his daughter Frida Wesolek and her husband Stanislaus Wesolek .

From the late 1920s, the three worked for the secret apparatus of the Communist International (Comintern), which was increasingly merged with the state Soviet intelligence services in the course of the 1930s . This gave them contact with the resistance groups around Adam Kuckhoff , Wilhelm Guddorf and John Sieg as well as with the Gerhard Kegel / Ilse Stöbe group .

The Hübner / Wesolek family had technical equipment for illegal organization as well as functional radio devices. In contrast to Hans Coppi and Karl Böhme , they were trained to use these devices. Because of the withdrawn military front and the war-related disorganization in the Soviet Union, their contact with the Soviet Union also broke off in the summer of 1941.

In the summer of 1942 they found shelter for German communists who were returning from the Soviet Union as parachutists , including in their arbor in Rudow , and in the vicinity of resistance members from the Berlin group of the Red Orchestra . As a result, they got caught up in the wave of arrests that began in early September 1942.

In the course of the following month Emil Huebner, his daughter, his son-in-law and two of his grandchildren were arrested.

The 81-year-old was sentenced to death together with Frida Wesolek and Stanislaw Wesolek in spring 1943 by the Reich Court Martial under the prosecutor Manfred Roeder . The sentence was carried out on August 5, 1943, together with the death sentences against Adam Kuckhoff and many others from the Berlin Red Orchestra at the Plötzensee execution site .

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar u. a ..: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 2, Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 496 f.
  • Gilles Perrault : In the footsteps of the Red Chapel (“L'Orchestre Rouge”). Europa-Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-203-51232-7 (reprinted from Reinbek 1969 edition).
  • Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance . Results-Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0 (with an introduction by Heinrich Scheel ).
  • Leopold Trepper : The truth. The autobiography of the Grand Chef of the Red Chapel (“Le grand jeu”). Ahriman-Verlag, Freiburg / B. 1995, ISBN 3-89484-554-6 (Unwanted Books on Fascism; Vol. 9).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The dead of the Red Chapel ( Memento from June 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in the German Resistance Memorial Center
personal data
SURNAME Huebner, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians and resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1943
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee