
Hubert Braunbeck (1902-1934) was a German Sturmabteilung (SA) trooper and policeman. Born in Starnberg, Bavaria (southwest of Munich), he supported the creation of the Bavarian Soviet Republic as a teenager and considered himself a socialist for many years, but the rise of national socialism in the late 1920s and early 1930s attracted him to the NSDAP, which he joined in 1930. Braunbeck joined the Sturmabteilung (SA) following the murder of Horst Wessel, and, in 1933, he was deputized as a policeman and ordered to hunt down opponents of the new Nazi regime with extreme prejudice. After the Night of the Long Knives saw the SA's reputation discredited, Braunbeck - humiliated and depressed- threw himself in front of oncoming traffic in Munich.