Hugo Ebbinghaus (communist)
Hugo Ebbinghaus (born January 18, 1884 in Lüttringhausen ; † August 1945 ) and his wife Hildegard Helene Ebbinghaus were German communists and resistance fighters against the Nazi regime .
Life
In the early 1920s, Hugo Ebbinghaus and his wife Hilde became members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) after they had previously left the church. The couple had two children, Egon and Waltraud, who was eight years younger . Ebbinghaus became the local group leader of the KPD in Ronsdorf . After a long period of unemployment, the trained bandmaker opened a tobacco and stationery shop in Ronsdorf together with his wife.
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Ebbinghaus was arrested and spent a year in the Kemna concentration camp . After his release from prison, he kept in touch with his party comrades. In 1935 his son Egon Ebbinghaus was arrested and sentenced in April 1935 to two years in prison in the so-called “youth trial ” for illegal activity for the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD). The family business had to be closed because the customers stayed away out of fear.
Hugo Ebbinghaus was the contact person for the Knöchel Group around Wilhelm Knöchel and Willi Seng . However, Ebbinghaus refused Seng's request to do more intensive illegal work and to set up a cell in the company and to organize a wider distribution of printed matter. He was of the opinion that such an approach was not responsible. In his opinion, it was more necessary to promote cohesion among each other through discussions and mutual information. Therefore he brought Seng together with some reliable comrades, including Irmgard Schwebinghaus, the wife of the emigrant leader in the Netherlands , Eugen Schwebinghaus .
At the beginning of 1943 the Gestapo began to break up the Knöchel organization. Alfons Kaps , Wilhelm Knöchel and Willi Seng revealed names under torture . More than 200 people were arrested, severely mistreated and indicted before the Hamm Higher Regional Court and the People's Court of “preparing for high treason , favoring the enemy, reducing military strength , weakening the internal front”. 23 men, including Ankle, Seng, and Schwebinghaus, were sentenced to death and executed. Hilde and Hugo Ebbinghaus were sentenced to prison terms, the wife to three years and six months in prison and four years of loss of honor, and her husband to eight years in prison. Hugo Ebbinghaus died of the consequences of his imprisonment in August 1945 during a transport after the prison in Coswig Castle had been dissolved, without having seen his family again. His wife Hilde, who was seriously ill while in prison, died in 1947.
On March 25, 2013, a stumbling stone was laid in front of their former home at Remscheider Strasse 46 in Wuppertal-Ronsdorf for the Ebbinghaus couple .
literature
- Heike Herrberg: “You have to have moral courage”. In: "Se krieje us nit kaputt". Faces of the Wuppertal resistance . Edited by of the Wuppertal Resistance Research Group. Didot-Verlag, Essen 1995. ISBN 3-9804014-2-1 , pp. 97-116
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ronsdorfer Wochenschau, March 20, 2013 ( Memento from May 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6.4 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ebbinghaus, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luettringhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1945 |