Werner Kube

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Werner Kube (born April 24, 1923 in Trebitsch , Friedeberg district, † April 20, 1945 in Brottewitz ) was a German resistance fighter .

Life

Werner Kube grew up in Berlin, both parents were communists, his father was a professional designer. Kube attended a secular school and was already active as a child in the “Fichte” workers' sports club . After graduating from school, he became a car mechanic.

In September 1933, his father was brutally mistreated during a house search, a formative event for Werner Kube, which further solidified his anti-fascist attitude and made him immune to Nazi ideology.

In 1941 he was recruited into the Air Force . At times he was part of the aircraft recovery service and was stationed in the part of the Soviet Union occupied by the Wehrmacht . In 1944 he worked in an aircraft repair shop and supported the prisoners of war deployed there with food and information about the war. Because of these contacts, he was denounced and arrested. First he was sent to Altenburg prison. In January 1945 he was relocated to the Torgau Fortress , where the Imperial Court Martial was located at that time . When the Allied troops approached Torgau , he was sent on a death march with about 3,000 other prisoners . Five inmates were chained together. Since he tried to flee with his four comrades, they were all chained to a barn for three days and then they had to march on to Brottewitz near Mühlberg with their feet tied up . There Werner Kube was sentenced by a field court together with Reinhold Franznick, Johann Jakobi, Erich Kindermann and Harry Prien and then shot .

Honors

In the GDR Werner Kube was honored as an anti-fascist and resistance fighter:

  • In Bernburg (Saale) and Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg has been Werner-Kube-street named after him.
  • In the Eugen-Schönhaar Street in Berlin there was the POS Werner Kube .
  • In Leipzig there was the BBS Werner Kube vocational school .
  • A feeder trawler of the "Artur Becker" series also got its name
  • In 1961 his portrait appeared on a postage stamp from the GDR Deutsche Post.

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933–1945. Biographies and letters. Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1970, Volume 1, pp. 535-538
  • Ursula Höntsch : Escape in chains , in: The Zero Hour, Berlin 1966, p. 120

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personal data
SURNAME Kube, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Trebitsch
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1945
Place of death Brottewitz