Richard Hüttig

Richard Hüttig (Pronounced OO-teg; 18 March 1908 in Roßleben-Bottendorf – 14 June 1934 in Berlin, executed) was a prewar German Communist who was put to death, apparently more for his political convictions than for any crime he committed.

By 1930, Hüttig was leader of the Häuserschutzstaffeln ("house protection squad") in his neighbourhood in Charlottenburg, which had been set up to ward off Brown Shirt terror raids.

Richard Hüttig was arrested during a crackdown on anti-régime elements on 14 September 1933, after Hitler had seized power, whereafter he spent several months in the Columbia-Haus concentration camp.

Nothing could be proved on that point, however, and the court even admitted that it was not credible to suggest that Hüttig had done this crime, especially as there were eyewitnesses who swore that Kurt von der Ahé had been shot by his own people.

There was another memorial plaque to him at the local inn, the "Thüringer Hof", placed by the Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes ("Association of Persecution Victims of the Nazi Régime").