Resi Huber

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Therese "Resi" Huber (* December 13, 1920 in Dachau as Therese Wild ; † March 22, 2000 in Munich ) was a German civilian employee in the herb garden "Plantage" operated by the Dachau concentration camp and secretly provided prisoners with letters and food during this time . After the war, Huber was active as a peace activist, anti-fascist and contemporary witness of the Nazi regime until her death .

Life

Huber was born in December 1920 in simple circumstances in Dachau. After graduating from school and doing a commercial apprenticeship, she started working in the administration office of the “Plantage” near the Dachau concentration camp - a project by Heinrich Himmler , who had a penchant for natural medicine and therefore had test fields and greenhouses set up on an area of ​​almost 150 hectares to be able to experiment there with all kinds of plants, with the help of which he wanted to "improve German public health".

After a short time, Huber and some of her colleagues made contact with prisoners and began to provide them with food and information from outside. With one of the prisoners - the German communist Ernst Behr - Huber finally established a relationship. After his release from military service, he became her first husband and father of their children, born in 1944 and 1947.

“I cannot forgive the criminals of war; I cannot forget the crimes; the grief over the mass murder of the youth, the elderly and children, the grief over the death of my brother and father as well as of many friends is not overcoming grief. "
Excerpt from Huber's speech on Rotkreuzplatz on the 40th anniversary of the beginning of World War II

In May 1946, Huber joined the KPD and became a member of the newly constituted DKP after it was banned in 1968 . Huber was passionately involved in the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime , in which she was a member of the Munich district executive until her death. She played a key role in the expansion of the Otto Huber Hut in Breitbrunn am Ammersee into an anti-fascist memorial and meeting place.

In the 1990s, while searching for pictures for the Wehrmacht exhibition in the files of her deceased husband , Huber came across a death list of 60 Munich communists. The DKP in Munich published its documentation on the activities of these women and men, supplemented by other sources, in 1998 under the title “ The re-found list” .

Until the end of her life, Huber participated regularly as a co-organizer and speaker in various peace and anti-fascism demonstrations.

Therese Huber died in Munich in March 2000 and was buried in the forest cemetery.

Works

  • DKP Munich (ed.): The rediscovered list: portraits of Munich communists who lost their lives in the anti-fascist resistance struggle. Discovered by Resi Huber. Munich, 1998

Honors

Explanatory board at Resi-Huber-Platz: "Resi Huber (1920-2000), helped prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp and risked their lives"

At the end of 2012, a previously unnamed square at the intersection of Impler Strasse and Thalkirchner Strasse in the Sendling district of Munich was renamed Resi-Huber-Platz . About the exact lettering of the signs - especially about the question of whether Huber should expressly also be honored for her post-war commitment as an anti-fascist - a long-standing dispute arose between the Munich municipal department and the Sendling district committee. In 2017, Munich's Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) finally decided on the short version proposed by the city's council of elders without mentioning her later role in the anti-fascism movement.

In 2019, the private Reserl student dormitory opened at Resi-Huber-Platz 1 , which takes up the name of the patron.

literature

  • Friends of the Otto Huber Hut (ed.): The Wild Reserl and the "KZ-Plantage". How a young woman from Dachau became an anti-fascist. Memories from and to Resi Huber , Munich 2003

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abendzeitung München: Places in Sendling: Huber Resi is still fairly new in the district. June 2, 2013, accessed February 27, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Ernst Antoni: Help in the »KZ-Plantage« - magazine of the VVN-BdA. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  3. ^ Gregor Schiegl: Dachau Concentration Camp: organic vegetables under the sign of the swastika. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Bärbel Schäfer: By chance into the Nazi machinery. Merkur.de, May 6, 2003, accessed on February 27, 2020 .
  5. ^ A b Fred Schmid: Munich: place named after Resi Huber. In: kommunisten.de. December 12, 2012, accessed February 28, 2020 .
  6. ^ Karl Stankiewitz : Outsiders in Munich: On how urban society deals with its marginalized groups . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7917-6078-0 .
  7. ↑ State Capital Munich Editor: Street renaming Resi-Huber-Platz. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  8. ^ Next tug-of-war for Resi Huber. Münchner Wochenanzeiger, March 25, 2018, accessed on February 28, 2020 .
  9. ↑ The no. OB Reiter does not have a statement on Resi Huber supplemented. In: Münchner Wochenanzeiger. April 17, 2017, accessed February 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Resi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huber, Therese; Wild, Therese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German peace activist, anti-fascist and contemporary witness of the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Dachau
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2000
Place of death Munich