Hans-Joachim Näther

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Memorial for the youths convicted at the beginning of the 1950s in Altenburg on Hospitalplatz

Hans-Joachim Näther (born December 9, 1929 in Dresden , † December 12, 1950 in Moscow ) was a German dissident in the GDR who was executed in the Soviet Union .

Life

Näther attended the Karl Marx High School in Altenburg in Thuringia . He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD). In the spring of 1949, in the eleventh grade, he and his three classmates Ulf Uhlig, Gerhard Schmale and Jörn-Ulrich Brödel founded a resistance group. They pasted leaflets of the West Berlin Combat Group Against Inhumanity (KgU) calling for freedom and free elections. They built a radio station and tried to interfere with the broadcast of a radio address by Wilhelm Pieck on the occasion of Stalin's 70th birthday on December 21, 1949, Näther called him a " mass murderer and dictator ". Whether the broadcast could be heard is controversial.

From March 21, 1950, the German People's Police (VP) arrested Näther and another 17 people, few were able to flee. Näther was first in the Altenburg police prison, then in Weimar . There, a Soviet military tribunal (SMT) sentenced him to death by shooting together with his school teachers Siegfried Flack (1929–1950) and Wolfgang Ostermann (1928–1950) on September 13, 1950 for “espionage, anti-Soviet propaganda and membership in a counterrevolutionary organization” .

The Ministry for State Security (MfS ) arrested his classmate Ludwig Hayne (1931–1951), who had fled to West Berlin, in June 1950 while distributing KgU leaflets in East Berlin . The SMT in Weimar sentenced him to death, too, and was executed in Moscow on April 28, 1951.

After the trial, Hans-Joachim Näther was brought to Moscow. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet rejected his request for clemency. On December 12, 1950, at the age of 21 , he was shot dead in Butyrka , a Moscow prison.

His relatives only found out about Näther's execution in 1995. That same year, on November 8, he was rehabilitated by the Chief Military Prosecutor of the Russian Federation .

The youth novel 50 Hertz against Stalin by Steffen Lüddemann is based on the Altenburg events and the fate of Näther . In 2013 was the State Theater Altenburg piece Mona Becker The in the dark listed on the Altenburger youth resistance.

Web links

literature

  • Arsenij B. Roginskij et al. (Ed.): "Shot in Moscow ..." The German victims of Stalinism in the Moscow Donskoye cemetery 19501–953 . Metropol, Berlin 2005², ISBN 978-3-938690-14-7 , pp. 278 f.
  • Wolfgang Enke: Hans-Joachim Näther. In: Karl Wilhelm Fricke , Peter Steinbach , Johannes Tuchel (all ed.): Opposition and resistance in the GDR. CH Beck, Munich 2002.
  • Enrico Heitzer: Some people are picking up on history. Youth resistance in Altenburg / Thuringia 1948 to 1950. Metropol, Berlin 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http ://www. Resistance.friedrichgymnasium-altenburg.de/pg_biograph.htm
  2. ↑ a b Hans-Joachim Näther on gegen-diktatur.de
  3. ^ Mediengruppe Sankt Ulrich Verlag GmbH: A radio message as a death sentence. Accessed December 17, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Enrico Heitzer: Some are picking up on history. Youth resistance in Altenburg / Thuringia 1948 to 1950. Metropol 2007, pp. 8f and 86–91.
  5. ↑ http://www.bwv-bayern.org/component/content/article/3-suchresult/66-heinz-eisfeld.html
  6. ↑ Arsenij B. Roginskij et al. (Ed.): "Shot in Moscow ..." The German victims of Stalinism in the Moscow Donskoye cemetery 19501–953 . Metropol, Berlin 2005², ISBN 978-3-938690-14-7 , p. 188.
  7. ↑ Review in Die Welt .
  8. ↑ Die im Dunkeln ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on tpthueringen.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tpthueringen.de
personal data
SURNAME Näther, Hans-Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Näther, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dissident and resistance fighter in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1950
Place of death Moscow