Erna Eifler
Erna Eifler (born August 31, 1908 in Berlin ; † April 8 or June 7, 1944 in Ravensbrück ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Erna Eifler and her four siblings were orphans in 1922. After attending elementary school and completing a commercial apprenticeship, she worked as a typist. From 1928 she worked for the Soviet trade agency in Berlin. In 1930/31 she worked for Metallo-Import in Moscow .
She was a member of the KJVD and since 1931 also a member of the KPD , in their underground department for operational reporting within the M apparatus , she took over the duties of Luise Kraushaar as secretary and cipher for Wilhelm Bahnik .
Together with the chemist Walter Caro , she fled to the Soviet Union in early 1935.
In May 1942 she returned to Germany by parachute over East Prussia together with Wilhelm Fellendorf . The two did not reach Hamburg until October 1942 and had contact with the Priess family there . She was arrested on October 15, 1942.
During her pre-trial detention at the Berlin police headquarters on Alexanderplatz , she shared a cell with Gertrud Neuhof for a while .
Erna Eifler was shot in the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp on April 8 or June 7, 1944.
literature
- Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The “other” capital of the Reich: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Lukas-Verlag: Berlin 2007; Page 402/410; ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1
- Regina Griebel, Marlies Coburger, Heinrich Scheel (Eds.): Recorded? The Gestapo album for the Red Orchestra. A photo documentation. Halle 1992, ISBN 3883840440 ; Page 222f
- Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as anti-fascist resistance - with an introduction by Heinrich Scheel . results publisher: Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0
- Gilles Perrault : L'Orchestre Rouge (various editions and editions)
- Leopold Trepper : The truth. Autobiography (various editions and editions)
- Simone Barck : Erna Eifler: "Traitor on a large scale"? . In: dies./ Ulla Plener (ed.): Verrat. The labor movement between trauma and grief , Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-320-02192-4 , pp. 129-140.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The dead of the Red Chapel ( Memento from June 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in the German Resistance Memorial Center
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eifler, Erna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1944 or June 7, 1944 |
| Place of death | Ravensbrück |