Oskar Huth

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Travel butter brands of Oskar Huth to 1943 in Berlin made

Oskar Huth (born February 26, 1918 in Berlin ; † August 21, 1991 there ) was a German piano maker , painter , draftsman , copyist , forger and resistance fighter against National Socialism . He has numerous submerged people with his by himself in Berlin-Wilmersdorf made travel butter brands , but also allows with false papers survival. As early as 1946, the American military administration certified him Evident of Anti-Nazi Activities .

Life

After passing the high school diploma , Huth studied painting and printing techniques , letterpress , gravure and flat printing in Berlin from 1936 to 1939 . When he one command after the war began in 1939 muster was, he was one Schwejkiade exempt from duty 'for a year due to "motor faults".

After more and more of his Jewish friends were picked up and did not come back from the concentration camps , he decided in 1941 to go underground. In March 1942, Huth obtained a hand press and drove it with a handcart from Kreuzberg to Wilmersdorf at Dillenburger Strasse 58f, where he set up himself in the cellar of the house. His cover was that of a scientific draftsman. As such, he had worked in the Botanical Institute in the Königin-Luise-Strasse in his legal days . In the following years he forged travel butter stamps, military passes and other papers, such as u. a. for the retirement of the painter Heinz Trökes from the Wehrmacht. Huth made it possible for almost sixty people - mostly Jews who had hidden in Berlin - to survive. This included the Jewess Ilse Haak, née Lewin, later Stillmann, and from 1944, after the failed Hitler assassination attempt, also the two brothers Ludwig and Kunrat Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, who had gone into hiding . Their documents are part of the German Resistance Memorial Center in Berlin.

In the 1950s and 1960s in West Berlin , Huth was a well-known original as a narrator and pianist in several Kreuzberg and Wilmersdorfer artist pubs, where he made the acquaintance of writers, directors and actors.

Oskar Huth's grave in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Oskar Huth died in Berlin in 1991 at the age of 73. His grave is in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Church Congregation in Berlin-Kreuzberg (grave site 133-3-7). His grave monument, a narrow stele with botanical ornaments, was created by the sculptor Günter Anlauf . By decision of the Berlin Senate , the last resting place of Oskar Huth has been dedicated as a Berlin honorary grave since 1994 . The dedication was extended in 2016 by the usual period of twenty years.

Honors

The writer Peter O. Chotjewitz portrayed Huth in his story A man named Nagel . Günter Grass created in his novel Dog Years a Huth modeled character named "hat", piano manufacturers and counterfeiters by profession. Robert Wolfgang Schnell also created a figure based on Huth named Bubi Paffrath in his novel Geisterbahn . Günter Bruno Fuchs , Rolf Haufs , Reinhard Lettau and Matthias Koeppel were inspired by the person of Huth in several poems. Hans Magnus Enzensberger mentions Huth in his biography Hammerstein or the obstinacy . Friedrich Christian Delius writes in his novel Mein Jahr als Mörder about Huth and his own inability to speak to him when the opportunity arose.

Oskar Huth is honored in the Stille Helden memorial, which opened in 2008 at Rosenthaler Strasse 39.

In the exhibition cycle Kreuzberger Bohème , an Oskar Huth exhibition with the exhibition title For the Fall of Sobriety took place in 2014 in the Mühlenhaupt Museum Berlin Kreuzberg / Browse Gallery in the Marheineke Hall in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The exhibition was curated by Hartmut Topf. Photos of the exhibition came from Alf Trenk and Dietmar Bürer.

literature

  • Felicitas Bothe-von Richthofen: Resistance in Wilmersdorf (=  resistance 1933–1945. Ed. By the German Resistance Memorial Center , ISBN 3-926082-03-8 , Volume 7). German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin 1993, pp. 164–165.
  • Jutta Hercher: The Butter Conspiracy. The survival run of Oskar Huth. Radio feature broadcast by WDR 3 on November 5, 2011 ( Memento from November 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  • Oskar-Huth-Gesellschaft (Ed.): For the case of sobriety. Almanac for Oskar Huth's 60th birthday. Self-published, Berlin 1978.
  • Oskar Huth: survival run. Edited by Alf Trenk. Merve Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-88396-164-7 .
  • Ilse-Margret Vogel : Bad Times, Good Friends. A personal memoir. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego / New York / London 1992, ISBN 0-15-205528-2 (New edition: Bad times, good friends. A memoir, Berlin 1945. Sheep Meadow, Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY 2001, ISBN 1 -878818-98-8 ).
  • Ilse-Margaret Vogel: About courage in the underground. A narrative of friendship, decency and resistance in Berlin from 1943-1945. Edited by Jutta Hercher and Barbara Schieb. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86732-157-0 . Translated and expanded edition of the original Bad Times, Good Friends ...
  • Hanns Zischler : »My Monsterlatsch« Small memorial for the great Oskar Huth. In: Hanns Zischler: Berlin is too big for Berlin. Galiani, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86971-071-6 , pp. 52-65.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fig. P. 181 in: About courage in the underground , Ilse-Margaret Vogel, Lukas Verlag Berlin 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Jutta Hercher: The Butter Conspiracy. The survival run of Oskar Huth. Radio feature broadcast by WDR 3 on November 5th, 2011 (no longer online).
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 214. Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) . (PDF, 413 kB) Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, p. 39; accessed on March 12, 2019. For a time limit of 20 years, see the implementation regulations for Section 12 (6) of the Cemetery Act (AV Ehrengrabstätten) (PDF, 24 kB) of August 15, 2007, paragraph 10; accessed on March 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ I'm not part of this company! , at: Community Impulse, Browse Gallery / Mühlenhaupt Museum Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Huth, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German piano maker, painter, draftsman, copyist and forger
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1991
Place of death Berlin