Rupert Huber (resistance fighter)

Issue of the journal “United Front of All Schaffenden” published by Rupert Huber and edited by Karl Zimmet in July 1932

Call for elections by the APBD in southern Bavaria on the occasion of the Reichstag elections on July 31, 1932. Alongside Rupert Huber, Vitus Heller and Hans Hutzelmann ran for election

Rupert Huber (* 1896 ; † January 15, 1945 in Brandenburg-Görden ) was a Munich resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

The trained printer was a member of the left-wing Catholic Christian Social Reich Party (CSRP) during the Weimar Republic . Together with his fellow party member Karl Zimmet , the staunch opponent of National Socialism began in Munich in 1937 with the publication and distribution of anti-fascist leaflets calling for the overthrow of the Nazi regime. After Huber and Zimmet had brought in other former CSRP and KPD members, they formed an organization which, from 1943, was called the Anti-Nazi German People's Front (ADV).

After the break-up of the resistance group Fraternal Cooperation of Prisoners of War (BSW), which was cooperating with the ADV , Huber was arrested by the Gestapo in January 1944 . Sentenced to death by the People's Court on December 8, 1944, together with Hans Hutzelmann and Karel Mervaert , and executed in Brandenburg prison on January 15, 1945 together with other ADV members.

literature

• Wolfgang Benz , Walter H. Pehle (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the German resistance. 2nd Edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-10-005702-3 , pp. 163-164 and p. 361.
• Michael Rudloff: Christian anti-fascists of the "first hour" in the resistance. In: Scientific journal of the Karl Marx University Leipzig. Social science series. 38th vol., 1989, pp. 297-307.