Anja Killmer-Korn

Anja Killmer-Korn (born September 2, 1897 in Vienna ; † May 4, 1981 in Berlin ) was a German resistance fighter .

Born in Vienna as Anja Korn, she moved to Berlin, where, like her brother Vilmos Korn, she moved in the national revolutionary political environment. She joined a national revolutionary anti-fascist resistance organization, the group " Social Revolutionary Nationalists " around Karl Otto Paetel . In November 1939, 150 members of the group were arrested, including Anja Korn and her partner Lothar Killmer. Anja Korn was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the People's Court , Lothar Killmer to 5 years in prison. Anja Korn spent the years up to the liberation in prisons in Cottbus and Waldheim / Saxony. In 1945 she joined the KPD , later the SED . Her partner and later husband Lothar Killmer (1919-2000) was imprisoned in the Brandenburg prison and in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . After the end of the war he began studying social sciences and was a foreign policy editor for many years, with a focus on Africa at the New Germany .

literature

• Anja Killmer-Korn: Lattice and maple . Dietz publishing house. Berlin 1964.
• Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon . Volume 4. 2nd edition. Trafo publishing group. Berlin 2008
• Claudia Schoppmann: Elsbeth Killmer (1890–1957). A life with compromises . Berlin 1998
• University newspaper of the SED party leadership of the Karl Marx University Leipzig from October 2, 1964