Oskar Huebschmann

Oskar Hübschmann (born April 12, 1908 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 23, 1942 in Plötzensee prison , Berlin ) was a German worker and victim of the Nazi war justice system.

Life and activity

Hübschmann was the sixth child of a chief postman. Until 1931 he worked as a commercial clerk. He was then unemployed for a long time.

In 1932, Hübschmann joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). At that time he also became a functionary of the International Workers Aid (IAH) in the Hessen-Frankfurt district, after having been a member of this organization since 1929.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933 and the communist organizations were banned in February / March 1933, Hübschmann took over the illegal management of the IAH in the Frankfurt area together with Albert Dühring in the summer of 1933 . In particular, the task fell on him in this position. to provide his like-minded people with communist literature, too. In September 1934 he emigrated to the Saar area, where he took over the organizational management of the IAH for the aar area and became a member of the central committee of the Saarland IAH. The subsequent reintegration of the IAH into the German Reich in January 1935 in the wake of a referendum on the territory that had previously been under the administration of the League of Nations since 1919, in which the majority voted to join the Reich, forced him to flee to France.

After a temporary internment in France, Huebschmann returned illegally to Germany for a short time, then went to Belgium, where he worked for the Red Aid of Germany in Brussels and Antwerp . At the end of 1936 he went to Spain, where he took part in the Spanish Civil War with the International Brigades on the Republican side . He spent most of the war as a typist and translator for the brigade cashier of the XI. International Brigade Herbert Müller on the Cordoba , Madrid , Jarama and Guadalajara fronts .

After the defeat of the Republicans, Hübschmann returned to France in February 1939, where he was interned again in Sankt Cyprien and Gurs, but was finally released. After the outbreak of World War II , he signed up for service in the French army. In April 1940 he was arrested as a soldier in Bordeaux by the French police and extradited to Germany.

In November 1941, Huebschmann was charged before the People's Court for continued high treason from 1933 to 1940 and voluntary reporting for service in an enemy army. At the session of October 20, 1941, he was found guilty and sentenced to death. The execution followed in January 1942 in the Berlin-Plötzensee prison. His execution was announced in the Völkischer Beobachter of January 24, 1942.

literature

• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , pp. 400 .

Web links

• Short biography of Hübschmann at the Federal Foundation for Work-Up