Director of the Städtische Bühnen Mainz, local historian
Born: September 2, 1898 in Mainz-Kastel
died: January 31, 1980 in Mainz

After attending elementary and commercial school, Hebach completed an apprenticeship and subsequently worked as a commercial clerk. Beginning in 1920, he worked for the municipal administration in Mainz, where he served as a clerical assistant and office trainee. After passing the civil service examination in 1923, he became a civil service trainee. Following his appointment as a civil servant in 1925, he held various positions within the Mainz municipal administration. His primary place of work was the school board.

According to his own statements, Hebach was a practicing Catholic. He was a member of the Center Party from 1927 to 1933. He stated that he had campaigned for the party as late as 1933. Furthermore, in the 1920s, Hebach was a member of the Catholic Men’s Association of Mainz-Kastel, the Ketteler Working Group, the Catholic Merchants’ Association of Mainz, and the Caritas Association.

After the National Socialists “seized power,” Hebach joined the SA in 1933 and became part of the SA Reserve II in Mainz-Kastel. There, he held the rank of Scharführer. The denazification court file contains a certified copy of a suspension notice issued to Hebach by the SA in February 1939.

It states that Scharführer Hebach was suspected of having harmed the interests of the SA and was therefore immediately suspended. In 1946, Hebach explained the reason for this suspension. He had been suspected of speaking disparagingly about SA sports. Furthermore, as a clerk with the municipal school administration, he had favored gymnastics and sports clubs over the SA in the allocation of municipal gymnasiums.

On June 18, 1937, Kurt Hebach applied for membership in the NSDAP and was admitted to the party retroactively as of May 1, 1937. After his military service (1939–1945) and his captivity (1945–1946), Hebach was dismissed from municipal service between 1946 and 1948 due to his party membership.

During his denazification proceedings, Hebach submitted 17 affidavits and certificates, as well as a list of 37 additional potential witnesses, intended to demonstrate his poor relationship with and distance from the Nazi regime. He also stated that he had maintained contact with a Jewish dentist, had been forcibly transferred to the SA and the NSDAP, and had distributed letters critical of the Nazis written by Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Münster among his circle of acquaintances. The public prosecutor ultimately requested that Hebach be classified in Group 4 (“Followers”). He was sentenced to pay a fine of 500 RM. The proceedings were concluded in April 1948. Subsequently, Hebach was able to resume his duties with the City of Mainz.

From the late 1940s onward, Konrad Hebach was primarily active in the cultural sector of the Mainz city administration. Hebach rose to the position of director and member of the board of directors of the Städtische Bühnen. As such, he was responsible for the operations and programming of the municipal theaters and was one of the most important figures in Mainz’s cultural scene.

In the postwar period, Konrad Hebach was also active as a local historian and became honorary chairman of the Society for Local History and Cultural Preservation.

Hebach was also deeply involved in his church congregation and volunteered with the Kastel Hospital Association. Furthermore, he was an honorary member of the Kastel Gymnastics and Sports Association and organized regional, national, and international gymnastics festivals. Consequently, following a resolution by the City Council on November 19, 1981, a street in the Mainz-Kastel district was named after him.

However, due to his membership in various National Socialist organizations (NSDAP, SA, NSV, RDB, NSRL, Reichskriegerbund), his assumption of the rank of Scharführer in the SA, and his active support for the National Socialist state, the Historical Expert Commission—appointed by a resolution of the City Council in 2020 to review traffic areas named after individuals, buildings, and facilities in the state capital of Wiesbaden to contextualize Kurt-Hebach-Straße. The city administration followed the recommendation with a resolution dated March 24, 2026.