Richard Hüttig (resistance fighter)

Memorial plaque on the house at Seelingstrasse 21 in Berlin-Charlottenburg

Richard Hüttig (born March 18, 1908 in Bottendorf ; † June 14, 1934 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was an anti-fascist resistance fighter and one of the first victims of Nazi tyranny to be executed in the Plötzensee prison .

Life

Hüttig came to Berlin at the age of about 17, lived and worked in Charlottenburg . He was a member of the Red Young Front, the youth organization of the Red Front Fighters League , and the KPD, and headed the Lange House Protection Squadron, which met regularly in the Titz restaurant at Nehringstrasse 4a. In 1933 he was accused of having shot SS-Scharführer Kurt von der Ahé. Hüttig went into hiding for a short time, but was caught in a raid and, after being imprisoned and mistreated in the Gestapo prison on Columbiadamm, which later became the Columbiahaus concentration camp , brought before a special court.

Although the unarmed Hüttig himself could not be proven in the opinion of the court, he was sentenced to death on February 16, 1934 for a serious breach of the peace and attempted murder and beheaded in the open air on June 14, 1934 with an ax .

Honors

tomb

• There is a memorial plaque on his former home at Seelingstrasse 21 (then Potsdamer Strasse 38) in Klausenerplatz - Kiez .
• Richard Hüttig has been commemorated by the Hüttigpfad leading to the Plötzensee execution site , also in the then administrative district of Charlottenburg , since 1950 . After the traffic routing has been dismantled, this is no longer a street, but still bears the name that was given as the first dedication in Charlottenburg-Nord .
• His grave is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf , block Charlottenburg, field 9, 146.
• In his hometown Roßleben was Richard Hüttig square named after him.
• On April 8, 2011, a memorial plaque for 71 Charlottenburg opponents of National Socialism was unveiled at the House of Youth in Charlottenburg at Zillestrasse 54, which also contains the name of Hüttig.

literature

• Brigitte Oleschinski (arrangement): Plötzensee memorial . Ed .: German Resistance Memorial Center . Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-926082-05-4 ( PDF ).

• Jan Petersen : Our street . Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-7609-0752-0 ( in the Socialist Archives for Fiction ).

The novel Our Street , written in 1934, describes the history of the early anti-fascist resistance in the Charlottenburg workers' quarter on Klausenerplatz and in particular the fate of Richard Hüttig.

Web links

Commons : Richard Hüttig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Memorial plaque at the Luisenstadt Educational Association
• Plötzensee memorial in the district lexicon at berlin.de
• Short biography at the Evangelical Church Community of Charlottenburg-Nord

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Memorial plaques in Berlin
2. ↑ Hüttigpfad. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
3. ↑ Unveiling of the memorial plaque for Charlottenburg opponents of National Socialism