Hans Hornberger
Hans Hornberger (born July 12, 1907 in Bayreuth ; † February 14, 1944 in Neuengamme concentration camp ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Hans Hornberger was born in Bayreuth as the son of Hornberger, who was married to Christiana Müller. After attending primary school, he learned the trade of machine fitter and then went on a hike.
In 1928 he found work at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in ship and aircraft construction and settled in Hamburg. In 1929 he joined the KPD .
In 1931 he married Margarete Kummerow . In 1932 the first daughter Gerda was born.
During the war, Hornberger was won over by Robert Abshagen and Franz Jacob to rebuild the KPD in Hamburg. Together with Jonny Stüve and Walter Reber, he took over the direction of illegal groups of three at Blohm & Voss. He worked with a group of Polish prisoners of war led by Michael Pozywilek, collecting food cards , clothes and money for them and comrades living illegally .
Hornberger was arrested on October 19, 1942. After four months in Gestapo detention in Fuhlsbüttel , he was transferred to the Hamburg remand prison on Holstenglacis. After the air raids on Hamburg in the summer of 1943 , like many other prisoners, he was given two months' leave. After the deadline, however, he did not turn up, but instead went back to Hamburg after staying with his family to continue to take part in conspiratorial work.
The Gestapo spy Alfons Pannek managed to get to know Hornberger as "Comrade Hans Müller". Hornberger was arrested again on January 4, 1944 and sent to the Fuhlsbüttel police prison. The Oberreichsanwalt indicted him along with seven other workers and the vocational school teacher Ernst Mittelbach .
The Gestapo decided to set an example against the resistance fighters Hornberger, Gustav Bruhn and Elisabeth Bruhn as well as Kurt Schill . Without a court ruling, they were taken to Neuengamme concentration camp on February 14, 1944 on Heinrich Himmler's execution order and hanged there in the execution bunker on the same day .
The second daughter Heidi-Margret was born in June 1944.
Commemoration
Hans Hornberger is remembered with a symbolic grave in the honor grove of Hamburg resistance fighters in Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery (2nd row from left, 6th stone).
In Hamburg-Eimsbüttel there is a stumbling block in his honor in front of Hornberger's last residential address, Kleiner Schäferkamp 48 .
literature
- Ursel Hochmuth : Nobody and nothing is forgotten. Biograms and letters from Hamburg resistance fighters 1933–1945, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89965-121-9
Web links
- The Bästlein-Jacobs-Abshagen Group - An example of communist resistance in Hamburg during the “Third Reich” , by Kathleen Marowsky - on unter-hamburg.de
- Biography and portrait of Hans Hornberger at stolpersteine-hamburg.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hornberger, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayreuth |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1944 |
| Place of death | Neuengamme concentration camp |