Hans Lieber

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Stumbling stone in front of Von-Essen-Straße 82

Hans Lieber (born April 29, 1890 in Hamburg , † February 20, 1945 in Celle prison ) was a German elementary school teacher . He became a victim of National Socialism after making statements in front of a school class that were detrimental to the military .

Life

Hans Lieber came from a petty bourgeois background. After graduating from school, he attended the teachers' college from 1905 and finally became an assistant teacher in 1911 . In 1915 he got a permanent position at the elementary school Von-Essen-Straße in Hamburg-Nord and thus became an elementary school teacher. In the same year he became a soldier and served half a year in the First World War . A shell splinter injured his arm, which left him paralyzed for a while. He returned to teaching, teaching English, biology and chemistry. As a trade union, he was organized in the teachers' union Society of Friends of the Patriotic School and Education System, which was oriented towards social democracy. After he had largely recovered from his World War I injury, he discovered sport as a hobby and as a subject. He therefore volunteered as chairman of the festival committee of the Hamburg Gymnastics Federation from 1862 . He was also active as a tour guide for the 1905 Pedagogical Association.

After the seizure of power , he joined the National Socialist Teachers' Association (NSLB) and the NS-Reichsbund for physical exercises . He also volunteered for the organization Kraft durch Freude , in which he was involved as a hiking guide. In May 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP . According to his obituaries, this was especially the case as a person seeking protection, as he attracted attention in the college with his ironic and mocking comments on the National Socialists.

In 1941 he and his school class were sent to Upper Bavaria as part of the children's area . Both his office, which served military purposes during the deportation, and his apartment were bombed and burned down in the summer of 1943 while he was away. A little later, Lieber returned from Upper Bavaria and became a trusted instructor for air force helpers in the Harburg district . His students were anti-aircraft helpers and operated the heavy artillery. In the winter of 1943/44 he let himself be carried away with the remark “ Whether we will win the war will only be seen at the end ”. He continued: “ If the English go back, it is a defeat; if we go back it is a withdrawal movement ”. The statement was passed on to the Lieutenant of the Air Force, who in turn passed it on to the competent Gestapo office .

Lieber was arrested on December 16, 1943 and initially imprisoned in the Fuhlsbüttel police prison. During the detention period, he lost weight and made at least one suicide attempt. On April 7, 1944, he was transferred to the Berlin-Plötzensee prison. On July 26, 1944, he was finally sentenced by the People's Court to four years in prison for degrading military strength , which he is supposed to serve in the Celle prison. He died there on February 22, 1945 as a result of poor circulation .

memory

After the end of the Second World War, Lieber's urn was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery. The headmaster of the Von-Essen-Straße elementary school at the time gave a short speech. Today a stumbling block in front of his former school at Von-Essen-Straße 82 reminds of his fate.

literature

  • Gerhard Hoch: Hans Lieber - the fate of a Hamburg teacher . Handout for the 50th anniversary of the National Socialists' seizure of power in Hamburg, Hamburg 1982.
  • Gerhard Hoch: Hans Lieber - Shudder at the violence of the master people . In: Hamburg: School under the swastika . Edited by Ursel Hochmuth / Hans-Peter de Lorent. Hamburg: Hamburger Lehrerzeitung 1985. pp. 256-258

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hans Lieber. Stolpersteine ​​Hamburg, accessed on April 12, 2017 .
  2. ^ Gerhard Hoch: Hans Lieber - a Hamburg teacher fate . Handout for the 50th anniversary of the National Socialists' seizure of power in Hamburg, Hamburg 1982. p. 3
  3. ^ Gerhard Hoch: Hans Lieber - a Hamburg teacher fate . Handout for the 50th anniversary of the National Socialists' seizure of power in Hamburg, Hamburg 1982. p. 7
  4. ^ Gerhard Hoch: Hans Lieber - a Hamburg teacher fate . Handout for the 50th anniversary of the National Socialists' seizure of power in Hamburg, Hamburg 1982. p. 11
  5. ↑ both quoted from Gerhard Hoch: Hans Lieber - a Hamburg teacher fate . Handout for the 50th anniversary of the National Socialists' seizure of power in Hamburg, Hamburg 1982. p. 19
  6. ^ A b Lutz van Dick: Oppositional behavior of individual teachers between nonconfirmity and resistance in Germany 1933–1945 . In: Wolfgang Keim (Ed.): Pedagogues and pedagogy in National Socialism - an unresolved problem in educational science . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-631-42650-X , p. 125 .
  7. ^ Gerhard Hoch: Hans Lieber - a Hamburg teacher fate . Handout for the 50th anniversary of the National Socialists' seizure of power in Hamburg, Hamburg 1982. p. 20
personal data
SURNAME Dear Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German elementary school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1945
Place of death Celle prison