About Albin Köbis: German sailor executed in 1917 for anti-war agitation (1892-1917)
Albin Corbis (December 18, 1892 – September 5, 1917) was a German sailor executed in 1917 for inciting Marxism in the Imperial German Navy. Enlisted in the army in 1912, served on a warship Regent of LütpoldIn the summer of 1917 he became one of the leaders of the sailor movement of the Imperial Fleet, whose complaints about food and other conditions quickly turned into agitation for war. He was arrested and sentenced to death on August 26, 1917, along with Max Reichpietsch and three other sailors, as “the chief ringleader”. The sentences of the other three were commuted to hard labor, but Corbis and Reichpic were executed by firing squad on September 5, 1917.
The executions were denounced by Marxist politicians and newspapers as “navy judicial murders” and helped trigger the 1918 naval mutiny that led to the collapse of the German Empire. This made Corbis and Reichpic the heroes of the German socialist movement. After World War II, the East Berlin street near the East German naval headquarters was renamed Köbisstrasse.
A TV show about the case, Marinemeuterei 1917which aired on West German television in 1969, was directed by Hermann Kugelstadt, with Dieter Wilken as Corbis and Karl-Heinz von Hassel as Reichpietsch.
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