Aline Atherton-Smith

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Aline Sybil Atherton-Smith (born November 13, 1875 in Ryde , † after 1945) was a British Quaker .

Life and activity

During the First World War , Atherton-Smith worked for the Bureau for Reconstruction and Re-education, American Red Cross in Paris .

In the early 1920s Atherton-Smith became head of the Department for Land Settlements at the Anglo-American Quaker mission in Vienna, foster mother of the Wolfersberg settlement project . This was dedicated to the task of building a new housing estate on Wolfersberg, outside Vienna. This comprised 60 homes and a cooperative building.

Atherton-Smith left the Alpine state at the latest after the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in March 1938. The National Socialists classified her as an enemy of the state because of her pacifist attitude or the spread of the same and in the spring of 1940 she was placed on the special wanted list GB compiled by the Reich Security Main Office , a directory of people who would be particularly targeted in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of Great Britain by the Wehrmacht Priority should be automatically identified and arrested by SS special commands. However, documents from the British National Archives suggest that Atherton-Smith was in Paris during the Second World War: in 1945 the London Home Office opened an investigation against her on suspicion of having made anti- British comments during the German occupation of Paris.

Fonts

  • The rural settlements in Vienna and the surrounding area: To solve the housing issue , 1925.
  • The Austrian Land Settlements: A Solution of the Housing Problem , 1926.

literature

  • Omerod Greenwood: Friends and Relief: A Study of Two Centuries of Quaker Activity in the Relief of Suffering Caused by War Or Natural Calamity , 1975.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ entry to Atheton-Smith on the special wanted list GB (playback of the entry on the site of the Imperial War Museum in London).
  2. ↑ Description of the files on Atherton-Smith on the National Archives website .
personal data
SURNAME Atherton-Smith, Aline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Atherton-Smith, Aline Sybil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Quaker
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Ryde
DATE OF DEATH after 1945