Cuno Horkenbach

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Cuno Horkenbach , also Kuno Horkenbach , (* May 23, 1883 , † February 20, 1968 ) was a German publisher.

Life

Horkenbach was active as a publisher in Berlin-Kreuzberg by the mid-1920s at the latest . He achieved public impact in particular with his handbooks on the corporations of the German Reich , in which he presented overviews of the members of the Reichstag and the state parliaments as well as the structural structure and the management staff of Reich ministries and other higher Reich authorities.

In 1933, Horkenbach and his wife Margarete (1897–1971), née Meyer, who at times also bore the name Kautzsch, established the illegal Bethanien district, which in the following years provided persecuted Jewish families with illegal accommodation and them - and later during the war also for Dutch forced laborers - procured food and organized their escape abroad. To this day, neither the number of members of the Bethany group nor that of the persecuted who were rescued can be determined. Martin Greschat estimates the number of members of the group to be at least 25.

In addition to its commitment as escape helpers, the group led by Horkenbach also worked intensively in the resistance against the Nazi regime through word of mouth and other methods.

Horkenbach mausoleum on the Dreifaltigkeitskirchhof II in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Together with his brother-in-law, the Berlin industrialist Reinhold Meyer , and his wife, the Horkenbach couple alternately hid Artur Isaakssohn for several years during the Second World War, who was persecuted by the Nazi regime because of his Jewish roots. On April 27, 1945, Isaakssohn was arrested in his hiding place by an SS detachment and taken to the execution, which he survived, however, seriously injured. Members of the Bethanien Circle found him and took him for initial medical care. After Berlin was taken by the Red Army, he was transferred to the Virchow Clinic in Berlin-Wedding. He later emigrated to the USA, but kept in touch with the Meyer and Horkenbach families.

Until his death, Horkenbach ran his Cuno Horkenbach printing and publishing house .

The Horkenbach couple and Cuno Horkenbach's parents are buried in a family mausoleum on the Dreifaltigkeitskirchhof II in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

Fonts

  • The German Empire from 1918 until today. With objective support from the Reich authorities , 1930.
  • The German Empire from 1918 until today. With objective support from the Reich authorities. Report book , 1931.
  • The German Empire from 1918 until today , 1932.
  • The German Empire from 1918 until today . 1933.
  • Handbook of the Reich and State Authorities, Corporations and Organizations , 1935.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Fieber, Lothar Berthold, Michele Barricelli, René Mounajed: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945. A biographical encyclopedia . Vol. 3, 2005.
  • Rolf-Ulrich Kunze: Distance to Injustice, 1933–1945. Methods and problems of German resistance research . 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Martin Greschat: Facets of Christian Resistance in Berlin . In: Hans Günter Hockerts / Hans Maier (ed.): Christian Resistance in the Third Reich , Annweiler 2003, ISBN 3-89857-162-9 , p. 56
  2. ^ A b Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : Resistance in Kreuzberg. P. 264 ff. German Resistance Memorial Center 1997
personal data
SURNAME Horkenbach, Cuno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horkenbach, Kuno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1883
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 1968