Hans Hutter

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Hans Hutter (born June 5, 1913 in Winterthur ; † December 9, 2006 there ) was a Swiss member of the International Brigades . Hans Hutter was a locksmith and operator of a car repair shop .

As a Swiss member of the International Brigades

Hans Hutter was one of the first 166 members of the Thälmann battalion together with his brother Max, who had set out for Spain independently in the summer of 1936 . Hans Hutter first took part in the fighting on the Aragon front in a heavy truck that had been converted into a usable armored car under the direction of Josef Raab (alias Franz Raab) , then he was involved in the defense of Madrid , and later had combat missions near Guadalajara and Brunete , and eventually took part in the Battle of Teruel , where he was seriously injured. After the resignation of the International Brigades in September 1938, Hans Hutter (his brother had died the previous year) returned to Switzerland, where he - like all other Swiss volunteers in the Spanish Civil War on the part of the Republic - was prosecuted.

Further life

Hans Hutter reported in the following years in countless witnesses talks about his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, such as the documentary Swiss in the Spanish Civil War by Richard Dindo . In addition, he was involved in various initiatives for international understanding and peace, including campaigning for orphans of the Spanish Civil War. Throughout his life he fought for the rehabilitation of the Spanish fighters before the Swiss authorities. In fact, in 2009, more than 70 years after the Spanish Civil War and two years after Hutter's death, the criminal sentences against the Swiss who were against in the Spanish Civil War were finally passed on the initiative of the Social Democratic National Councilor Paul Rechsteiner and the publicist Ralph Hug fought the Franco dictatorship overturned. Hans Hutter bequeathed the legacy of his memories of the war, consisting of photographs, diaries and other records, to the Archive for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich .

Hans Hutter is the father of the entrepreneur and politician Markus Hutter .

Works

literature

  • Christoph Dejung: Homages. Paul Grüninger, Helmuth Plessner, Hans Hutter . Samizdat, Zurich 1992 ( full text )

Trivia

The detective novel No Getting Through the Authors' Team Bohnet Pleitgen contains a scene from the Spanish Civil War narrated in dream sequences, which describes a command of the International Brigades defending Madrid in autumn 1936 and which is borrowed from Hutter's factual report on Spain in the heart . Hans Hutter appears as "Hans from Winterthur".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Brief Chronicle" (PDF; 211 kB), International Spanish Solidarity from Lake Constance 1936-1939, online presentation 2001
  2. ↑ "Posthumous Amnesty?" (PDF; 117 kB), NZZ, November 12, 2010
  3. ↑ Federal Act on the Rehabilitation of Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (PDF; 482 kB), Switzerland 2009, accessed on July 20, 2013
  4. ↑ "Publicist Ralph Hug reports on the Swiss volunteers in the Spanish Civil War" ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , See-Online.info, May 31, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / see-online.info
  5. ^ Institute for History at ETH Zurich , Hans Hutter estate (PDF; 4.1 MB), 2012 annual report, accessed July 20, 2013, page 44
  6. ↑ Bohnet Pleitgen: No through coming (= Ariadne Krimi. Vol. 1183), Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86754-183-1 , page 51ff.
personal data
SURNAME Hutter, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss fighters in Spain
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2006
Place of death Winterthur