Huber, Professor Kurt, born on 24-10-1893 in Chur, Swiss,
the son of German parents. When Kurt was four, his parents moved to Stuttgart and after his father’s death when young Kurt was at the Gymnasium, his mother moved with him and his three siblings to Munich.

Supported in his childhood love of music by his family, at university he chose to study music, psychology and philosophy. His initial attempts to find a job as a psychology professor were thwarted by Nazi accusations of a neurological handicap caused by a childhood disease. During these early years of financial difficulty, newly married and the father of young children, Huber became increasingly active in the revival of German, especially Bavarian, folk music. He organised folk music festivals, encouraged the transmission of folk music traditions, and collected and recorded songs and melodies. Due to his success in these endeavours, in 1927 he was offered a position as a musicologist in Berlin. Still without the permanent position he wanted, he and his wife and children returned to Munich, where he was hired as a professor of folk music. He developed a friendship with the German composer, music educator and theater man. Carl Heinrich Maria Orff,
and published and lectured on the Bavarian folk tradition. Orff died 29-03-1982 (aged 86) in Munich, West Germany.


Complications from rickets and diphtherias had left him with a pronounced limp with his left foot and a right hand that felt almost constantly numb. For these reasons, he was excused from military service in WWI. Despite these physical disabilities, Kurt Huber showed exceptional musical talent as a child and would later go on to become one of Germany’s foremost experts in German folk-music. He earned a doctorate at LMU in the early 1920s and even though he stammered, especially as he began to speak, he became an associate professor at his alma mater. In 1929, he married Clara, born, Schlickenrieder Huber (1908-1998)
The couple would go on to have two children, Birgit Huber Weiss (1930-2012) and Wolfgang. In 1937, Kurt was offered a prestigious position at the Institute for German Research at the University of Berlin,
but his time there lasted only one year because he did not use the position, as it was expected of him to do, to help write and publicize songs for the Nazi regime. As a result, he was forced to return to Munich and to his former position there as associate professor. Nearly everyone involved in the White Rose,
whether it be in Munich, Hamburg, Ulm, or anywhere else was in their early-to-mid 20s.
The couple would go on to have two children, Birgit Huber Weiss (1930-2012) and Wolfgang. In 1937, Kurt was offered a prestigious position at the Institute for German Research at the University of Berlin,


The White Rose, pronounced was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students and one professor at the University of Munich: Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl. The group conducted an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign that called for active opposition to the Nazi regime.
Professor Kurt Huber, however, was neither a student nor a soldier. Instead, he was a university professor which most of the core group of White Rose members looked up to and yet he neither started nor led this group. Professor Huber’s lectures in philosophy were some of the most popular on campus, attracting many students who were not even enrolled in his classes to his lectures. He was a lone voice of sanity there, and walked a very fine line insofar as he dared say things that most others would not, but, for example, would say them couched in with sarcasm or in such a way in which it would be hard to find fault. As students of LMU, Scholl Hans and Sophie, Alexander Schmorell,
and Willi Graf
in particular, knew who Professor Huber was and made themselves known to him.
Another Weisse Rose membere was Falk Harnack














The Gestapo, short for Geheime Staatspolizei (until 1936 also Gestapa, for Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt), was the political or secret police in Nazi Germany (1933 – 1945). The central Gestapo headquarters was located at 8 Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse in Berlin. 

When Sophie Scholl attended LMU, she had at least one class of Huber and Katharina Schüddekopf, Schüddekopf age 28 got one year in prison, who would become friends with most of the members of the White Rose, was a doctoral student of his. She attended, by invitation, “reading evenings” at the Schmorell villa, and was present at the good-bye party for Hans, Alex, and Willi at Manfred Eickemeyer’s studio before they were sent to Russia. Hans and Alex approached the subject of the leaflets of the White Rose in December 1942, revealing to him that they had authored them. Professor Huber was not sure that the leaflets were a good idea, considering how much risk was being undertaken for what would probably be very little effect amongst the people. However, after the ridiculous speech the Gauleiter Paul Giesler
made, and seeing the reaction of the students, he was willing to provide active help to the group. Hans and Alex presented him drafts for the fifth leaflet, and after seeing both, picked Hans’, but helped edit it. The fall of Stalingrad shook Professor Huber greatly, as it did many Germans. In response, he wrote what was to become the sixth leaflet of the White Rose.








Death and burial ground of Huber, Professor Kurt.







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