Walter Reber
Walter Reber (born March 25, 1891 in Hohenstein or in Ernstthal ; † June 26, 1944 in the Hamburg remand prison on Holstenglacis) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Reber was born as the son of master shoemaker Karl Reber and his wife Caroline, b. Lohse, born. After finishing elementary school, he learned the coppersmith trade. He went traveling and worked for companies in Germany, Austria, Denmark and Norway.
In 1913 Reber came to Hamburg and found work at Blohm & Voss . From 1914 to 1917 he was a soldier at the Eastern and the Western Front in the First World War . After his release he first went to Bitterfeld and then returned to Hamburg. In 1918 he married Luise Bartels, with whom he had a son.
In 1922 Reber joined the KPD and later the Red Aid and organized himself in the coppersmiths union. In 1932 he became unemployed and carried out the Hamburger Volkszeitung for some time .
After the Nazis came to power , Reber took part in anti-fascist actions. In May 1933 he was arrested and locked up as a protective prisoner in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp for nine weeks .
In 1934 he got back to work at Blohm & Voss . Recruited by his colleague Hans Hornberger during the war , he and Kurt Vorpahl and Ernst Heisel set up a new illegal company cell that joined the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen group . Reber took part in conspiratorial consultations, supported Polish and Soviet prisoners of war and collected ration cards , which he gave to Hans Hornberger.
Reber was arrested on October 19, 1942. He was severely ill-treated in the Gestapo detention center in Fuhlsbüttel. In March 1943 he was transferred to judicial custody.
After the bombing of Hamburg, Reber, like many others, received two months' imprisonment and took on an order for assembly work in Lübeck from the Rudolph Otto Meyer company .
The Gestapo responded to the request to the senior Reich attorney to extend his release from prison, which expired at the end of the month, until the start of the negotiations, with the new arrest in Lübeck only one day later on September 5, 1943 .
He was charged with “preparing for high treason” and “favoring the enemy” and sentenced to death on May 4, 1944, together with Erich Heins and Kurt Vorpahl, by the People's Court , chaired by Günther Löhmann . On June 26, 1944, Reber was beheaded in the remand prison on Holstenglacis .
Commemoration
Walter Reber is remembered with a grave in the honor grove of Hamburg resistance fighters in the Ohlsdorf cemetery . His urn was buried there on September 14, 1947 (pillow stone, third row from the left, sixth stone).
literature
- Ursel Hochmuth : Nobody and nothing is forgotten. Biograms and letters from Hamburg resistance fighters 1933–1945 , Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89965-121-9 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reber, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hohenstein-Ernstthal |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1944 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |