Hans Buttersack

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Hans Buttersack (born August 11, 1880 in Hamburg , † February 12, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Commemoration in Frankfurt,
newspaper clipping from Frankfurter Rundschau , August 1, 1945

Hans Buttersack was born into a merchant family from Hamburg . When he was five years old, his parents moved to Wiesbaden . There he first attended the grammar school on Luisenplatz . After studying law , he settled in Wiesbaden as a lawyer in 1909 . He took part in the First World War and returned to Wiesbaden from French captivity in 1920.

Politically, he was influenced by the right-wing conservative at home. He was a member of the Stahlhelm , the Defense Association of the German National People's Party (DNVP), and led a right-wing march through Wiesbaden on January 31, 1933 on the occasion of Adolf Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor .

His deep Protestant conviction and his membership of the Bergkirche community led him to the vicinity of the parish emergency union of Martin Niemöller , the forerunner of the Confessing Church in the city. In October 1934 he took part in the Dahlem Reich Confession Synod . Buttersack acted as legal advisor to the Confessing Church and also acted as legal advisor for the defense of Christians and Jews who were persecuted by the National Socialists because of their religious attitudes. He was arrested for the first time by the Gestapo in 1938 and was imprisoned in the police prison on Friedrichstrasse for seven weeks. He was arrested again on May 6, 1943 and deported to the Dachau concentration camp. In the Haunstetten subcamp near Augsburg he had to do forced labor for Messerschmitt AG . In February 1944, injured in an air raid, he was transferred to Dachau. On February 12, 1945, two months before the camp was liberated, he succumbed to the effects of a bladder disease and typhus .

Honors

In memory of the resistance butter Sacks who decided magistrate of the city of Wiesbaden 1968, the naming of a street in the district Klarenthal after him.

literature

  • Bernhard Heinrich Forck: And follow their beliefs. Memorial book for the martyrs of the Confessing Church. Evangelisches Verlagswerk, Stuttgart 1949.
  • Lothar Bembenek (Ed.): Series Wiesbaden History, Three Wiesbaden Biographies: Jürgen Stroop, Dr. Hermann Kaiser, Dr. Hans Buttersack. Association Wiesbaden Museum of Modern Times, 1989.
  • Martin Hofmann, Hans Friedrich Lenz, Paul Gerhard Schäfer, Johannes Stoll (eds.): The Evangelical Church in Hesse / The Evangelical Church in Nassau / The Evangelical Church in Frankfurt am Main until the actual merger on February 8, 1934. Edited and published in Commissioned by the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau. Dr. Hans Buttersack in memory. ISBN 3-87076-004-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Buttersack, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1945
Place of death Dachau concentration camp