Angelika Petershagen
Angelika Petershagen (born September 2, 1909 in Berlin as Angelika von Lindequist ; † December 19, 1995 in Greifswald ) was the wife of Rudolf Petershagen , who was an officer of the German Wehrmacht in the Second World War and became the commander of the university town of Greifswald, who was surrendered without a fight from destruction by Soviet troops .
Life
Angelika von Lindequist came from a Prussian officer family. Her father Lieutenant Colonel Karl-Olof von Lindequist (shot by a member of the Red Army in mid-March 1945 at his Gut Woitzel ) was a son of Field Marshal Oskar von Lindequist . Her mother Margarethe was the daughter of Colonel General Gustav von Kessel . Both grandfathers were adjutants general to the emperor .
In the spring of 1935 Angelika married the Hamburg-born officer Rudolf Petershagen in Potsdam , and the church wedding took place in the garrison church . In 1937, her husband was transferred to the 92nd Infantry Regiment in Greifswald as a company commander . There the couple moved into an officer's house. They designed the garden and planted trees. It was her idea to put down roots in Greifswald.
When the city of Greifswald was handed over without a fight, Angelika Petershagen supported her husband and risked her own life.
After the death of her husband she became a city councilor in Greifswald and tried to help solve the problems of the time. As the decay of the historic old town became more and more obvious, she wrote a letter to the chairman of the State Council, Erich Honecker, with her own courage on November 27, 1985 . In it she complained bitterly that the city, which had remained unscathed by her husband's deed in 1945, was now abandoned to decay in a different way.
In 1961 she and her husband were awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver "for their creative collaboration on the five-part television novel Conscience in Riot "; the DEFA series was created in 1961 based on her husband's autobiographical report of the same name. In 1984 she was awarded the Star of Friendship of Nations in silver.
In 1981 she published her memoirs, the fourth edition of which was published by Verlag der Nation in 1989 .
Autobiography
- Angelika Petershagen: Decision for Greifswald . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1981. 4th edition 1989 ISBN 3-373-00018-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Angelika Petershagen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Angelika Petershagen in the state bibliography MV
- Hans-Otto Lecht: Angelika Petershagen wife of a Greifswald city commandant Greifswald KOMPAKT, issues 10 and 11/2006, accessed March 8, 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany , October 6, 1961.
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, May 2, 1984, p. 2.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petershagen, Angelika |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lindequist, Angelika von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician and author, wife of the commandant of the university town of Greifswald |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1995 |
| Place of death | Greifswald |