Amalie Jordt

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Amalie Jordt (full name: Marie Luise Wanda Amalie Jordt ; born March 11, 1914 in Nienburg ; † March 18, 1942 in Bernburg ) was a German Jehovah's Witness (referred to as a Bible Researcher until 1931 ) and a victim of National Socialism . In 1942 she was classified as “unable to work” as part of Operation 14f13 and was brought from the Ravensbrück concentration camp to the Bernburg killing center , where she was finally murdered.

Life

Amalie Jordt in 1914 as the daughter of Oederaner born couple Richard and Louise Jordt in Nienburg. Like her parents, she confessed to being an active Jehovah's Witness as a teenager and had an apartment at Blücherstraße 17 in Chemnitz .

After the ban on Jehovah's Witnesses by the Nazi regime on June 24, 1933, she often worked as a courier for Jehovah's Witnesses and repeatedly came under the Gestapo's sights , which led to her arrest in early 1937. Jordt was sentenced to four years in prison in a trial before the Freiberg Special Court , which took place on July 30 and 31, 1937 in the jury room of the district court building in Chemnitz. This trial ran against a total of 23 Jehovah's Witnesses. Your secured bike has been confiscated.

Jordt served her imprisonment in the prisons in Cottbus and Leipzig . After she had served her sentence, she was released from prison, but was arrested again by the Gestapo at the prison gate and taken to the newly established Ravensbrück concentration camp on February 17, 1942.

In 1942 she was one of around 1,600 women from the Ravensbrück concentration camp who were selected as part of the 14f13 campaign . Margarete Buber-Neumann , who herself was imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp for a long time, writes in her book “ As prisoners with Stalin and Hitler ” that in the winter of 1941/42 a “medical commission” appeared in Ravensbrück, all of which were “mentally inferior”, “ Cripples ”and“ unfit for work ”filmed past them in the bathing room of the camp. All women who were selected by the "doctors" as no longer able to work were recorded in lists and earmarked for gassing. Since there was no gas chamber in Ravensbrück at that time, the so-called “black transports” to the mental hospital in Bernburg began in early 1942 in the course of the “14 f 13” murders. There was a gas chamber in the basement that can still be visited today.

On March 18, 1942, Jordt, just 28 years old, was one of those who was put on a large truck covered with tarpaulin in Ravensbrück early in the morning and driven to Bernburg / Saale. After their arrival in Bernburg, the women were murdered with carbon monoxide in the gas chamber there on the same day and then cremated. Their clothes, which they had to take off before the gassing, were brought back to Ravensbrück by truck. Her family was told on March 24th that she died on March 18th and was cremated on the 21st.

family

The Jordt family had been members of the Bible Students since the mid-1920s, as Jehovah's Witnesses called themselves until 1931. They ran a gardening business in Oederan, which, however, had to be closed in the early years of the Nazi era when the National Socialists called for a purchase boycott from Jehovah's Witnesses.

Amalie Jordt's father Richard Jordt worked at the Deutsche Reichsbahn as a gatekeeper . Due to a resolution of the Reichsbahndirektion Dresden with the file number 5 H 2 Pbrb, however, he was released without notice on May 4, 1936. The reason for dismissal was the “refusal to use the Heil Hitler salute ” (on the basis of Section 31, paragraph 6 of the Dilo ). He was subsequently detained twice for a total of nine months for practicing his belief. He died on July 2, 1949 in Oederan.

Her mother, Louise Linna Jordt (born evil, 1893 in Nienburg (Weser)) was prepared by the end of August 1950 took place ban on Jehovah's Witnesses in the GDR arrested for their faith in 1955 by the District Court Chemnitz to 4 years prison sentenced, they had to serve in Hoheneck prison and in Chemnitz.

Amalie Jordt's fiancé, Walter Hönig from Flöha , was sentenced to three years in prison in February 1937, which he served in Waldheim prison. On May 18, 1943, he was sentenced to death by the Reich Court Martial in Berlin for conscientious objection and was beheaded by the guillotine on June 8, 1943 in the Brandenburg prison .

Commemoration

On October 7, 2008, a stumbling block was laid at her last self-chosen place of residence - Blücherstraße 17 in Chemnitz . In 2013, the stone was removed by previously unknown perpetrators.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chemnitzer Tageblatt of August 3, 1937.
  2. ↑ Buber-Neumann, Margarete: As prisoners with Stalin and Hitler. A world in the dark. Ullstein, Munich 2002 [1. Ed. 1949], ISBN 3-548-36332-6 .
  3. ↑ Chemnitzer Tageblatt of February 27, 1937.
  4. ↑ Entry on www.chemnitzer-stolpersteine.de
  5. ^ " Stumbling block in Chemnitz disappeared " , Freie Presse, June 24, 2013, accessed on July 26, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Jordt, Amalie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jordt, Marie Luise Wanda Amalie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jehovah's Witness and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Nienburg (Weser)
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1942
Place of death Bernburg