Hubert Breitschaft

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Grave of Hubert Breitschaft in the Fossefeld district cemetery in Hanover
Information board in the cemetery on which the biography of Hubert Breitschaft is presented

Hubert Breitschaft (born November 11, 1903 in Wetterfeld / Upper Palatinate ; † December 12, 1944 in Hanover ) was a German soldier and a victim of National Socialism .

Life

Hubert Breitschaft was married and had two children. As a teacher in Grafenkirchen , he was already critical of National Socialism and the " Hitler salute " in 1934 . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP as the last teacher in his district . In 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and in 1944 stayed in Romania as a member of the 6th Army . When the report was received regarding the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 on Adolf Hitler , Breitschaft said in Ismajilspontaneously to another soldier that he regretted that Hitler was not killed in the assassination attempt. In addition, he said about Hitler:

“It's a shame it didn't get him! The guy has already caused misery to too many. "

The field post secretary denounced Breitschaft in a crime report to Breitschaft's superiors. Breitschaft was thereupon sentenced to death on August 2, 1944 in Bolgrad in Romania by a field court for undermining military strength . Two appeals for clemency were rejected. Breitschaft was imprisoned in the Wehrmacht remand prison on Waterlooplatz in Hanover. On December 12, 1944, he was executed on the shooting range of the Wehrmacht barracks in Vahrenheide near Hanover . The area at the Kugelfangtrift served the Nazi military justice as a place of execution for the execution of the death penalty on soldiers and is now part of the Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein barracks . Breitschaft was buried in the "Limmer Military Cemetery", today 's Fosselfeld district cemetery. The cemetery served, among other things, as a burial place for executed soldiers.

The case of Hubert Breitschaft is shown on an information board in the cemetery. He is an example for the 43 buried in the cemetery soldiers as victims of military justice in the era of National Socialism . The names of 46 executed victims of Nazi military justice who were buried in the cemetery are now known. The information board is located in the area of ​​the 2015 “Disobedience 1939–1945” monument by Almut and Hans-Jürgen Breuste to commemorate deserters of the Wehrmacht.

Hubert Breitschaft's biography was included in teaching material sponsored by the city of Hanover , which is intended for use in school lessons. In it, students are encouraged to think about Nazi military justice and their personal fate based on their biography.

literature

  • Friedrich Arnold: Notice of a death in: Schule & Wir , No. 1/88, Munich, April 1988, pp. 18-21 ( online , pdf)
  • Ralf Buchterkirchen: "... and if you put me against the wall". Desertion, destruction of military strength and "war betrayal" by soldiers in and from Hanover 1933 - 1945. Neustadt am Rübenberge 2011: AK Region and History. ISBN 978-3-930726-16-5
  • Ralf Buchterkirchen: "You don't need to be ashamed of my execution ...". Disobedient soldiers in Hanover 1933–1945. Neustadt am Rübenberge 2020: AK region and history. ISBN 978-3-930726-34-9
  • Klaus Falk: Deserters of the Wehrmacht 1939 - 1945 in and from Hanover ( Online , pdf)

Web links

Commons : Hubert Breitschaft  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Homepage about deserters in Hanover

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Buchterkirchen (responsible), Klaus Falk (text): Fossefeld-Friedhof / Gräber auf dem Fossefriedhof on the website of the German Peace Society- United War Resisters (DFG-VK) Hanover
  2. ↑ Ralf Buchterkirchen: "... and if you put me against the wall". Desertion, destruction of military strength and "war betrayal" by soldiers in and from Hanover 1933 - 1945. Neustadt am Rübenberge 2011: AK Region and History. Pp. 75-77. ISBN 978-3-930726-16-5
  3. ↑ Rüdiger Meise: Difficult history lessons on Fossefeld cemetery in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from May 16, 2012
  4. ↑ Ralf Buchterkirchen: "... and if you put me against the wall". Desertion, destruction of military strength and "war betrayal" by soldiers in and from Hanover 1933 - 1945. Neustadt am Rübenberge 2011: AK Region and History. P. 75. ISBN 978-3-930726-16-5
  5. ↑ Rüdiger Meise: Difficult history lessons on Fossefeld cemetery in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from May 16, 2012
  6. ↑ Ralf Buchterkirchen: "... and if you put me against the wall". Desertion, destruction of military strength and "war betrayal" by soldiers in and from Hanover 1933 - 1945. Neustadt am Rübenberge 2011: AK Region and History. P. 75. ISBN 978-3-930726-16-5
  7. ↑ Ralf Buchterkirchen: "... and if you put me against the wall". Desertion, destruction of military strength and "war betrayal" by soldiers in and from Hanover 1933 - 1945. Neustadt am Rübenberge 2011: AK Region and History. Pp. 75-77. ISBN 978-3-930726-16-5
  8. ↑ Ralf Buchterkirchen: "You don't need to be ashamed of my execution ...". Disobedient soldiers in Hanover 1933–1945. Neustadt am Rübenberge 2020: AK region and history. P. 18. ISBN 978-3-930726-34-9
  9. ↑ The “Disobedience 1933-1945” memorial on the Fossefeld district cemetery at hannover.de on February 5, 2018
  10. ↑ Ralf Buchterkirchen: "You don't need to be ashamed of my execution ...". Disobedient soldiers in Hanover 1933–1945. Neustadt am Rübenberge 2020: AK region and history. P. 4. ISBN 978-3-930726-34-9
  11. ↑ Ralf Buchterkirchen: "You don't need to be ashamed of my execution ...". Disobedient soldiers in Hanover 1933–1945. Neustadt am Rübenberge 2020: AK region and history. ISBN 978-3-930726-34-9
personal data
SURNAME Breitschaft, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soldier
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetterfeld (Roding)
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1944
Place of death Hanover