Kurt Huber (24 October 1893 – 13 July 1943) was a German university professor and resistance fighter with the anti-Nazi group White Rose.

[1] Huber was appalled by the rise of the Nazi Party and decided that Adolf Hitler and his government had to be removed from power.

Huber's distraught wife, Clara (née Schlickenrieder, 1908–1998), hoped Orff would use his influence to help her husband, but he said that he feared he was "ruined."

The final scene of this work, which is about the wrongful execution of Agnes Bernauer, depicts a guilt-ridden chorus begging not to be implicated in the title character's death.

In a brief show trial, Chief Justice Roland Freisler subjected Huber to a humiliating verbal attack.

[3] The square opposite from the main building of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich was named Professor Huber Platz in his memory.

Huber wrote a biography of Gottfried Leibniz which he completed while in prison and which was published in 1951 after being edited by his wife and pupil.

[10][clarification needed] After the war, a memorial volume with contributions from his friends and colleagues, including the 1946 letter from Carl Orff, was published by his widow.