Anna Disselnkötter

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Anna Disselnkötter (born January 28, 1904 in Diedenhofen as Anita Haas , † November 23, 2006 in Kassel ) was a German welfare worker who was honored as Righteous Among the Nations .

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Disselnkötter was born in 1904 in Diedenhofen in Lorraine . Her father died in the First World War . In the early 1920s the family moved to Baden-Baden , where Disselnkötter became a member of the Frankfurt youth movement and joined the SPD on her 18th birthday . In Frankfurt am Main she was trained as a welfare worker. In Cologne she met the pastor Walther Disselnkötter , they married in Baden-Baden in 1930 and had four children. In 1930 the couple moved to Sensweiler , there came Walther Disselnkötter his first pastorate at. At the urging of the church leadership, Walther Disselnkötter was transferred in 1937, so the family moved to Züschen . Shortly after the National Socialists came to power , the Disselnkötter couple joined the Confessing Church . The couple and their children experienced the Reichspogromnacht in Züschen; When a Jewish grocery store was looted, the Disselnkötters tried unsuccessfully to intervene. In other ways, too, the two tried to stand up for their Jewish fellow citizens and defended themselves against the national socialists' policy of harmonization . The couple were close friends with Margarete and Paul Schneider .

On January 28, 1945, a woman stood in front of the door of the rectory. She introduced herself as Mrs. Schmidt from Allenstein and claimed to be on the run from the Red Army . Mrs. Schmidt was actually Rahel Ida Plüer, née Schild, the Jewish wife of an Aryan dentist. In order to save her life, the Plüer couple faked the suicide of Rahel Plüer and Plüer fled. Disselnkötter suspected that the woman was Jewish and hid her, also knowing that if the hoax were discovered, in the best case scenario, it would mean deportation to a concentration camp . For about three months, until the liberation by the Americans on Good Friday 1945, Plüer hid with the Disselnkötters, provided with a replacement ID that had been requested from the mayor. Even after the war the parsonage was open to refugees and Disselnkötter took care of "[with] the help of their large garden and their own pets [...] imaginatively and carefully [...] [about] their food".

In 1946 Walther Disselnkötter changed the pastor again and came to Bad Wildungen . There Anna Disselnkötter stood up for people with intellectual disabilities , was involved in the establishment of Meals on Wheels in Wildungen and ran a home for mothers in need of relaxation. On June 20, 1996 Disselnkötter and her husband were honored by the State of Israel with the Righteous Among the Nations award for the rescue of Rahel Plüer . In 2006 Disselnkötter died in Kassel with her daughter's family.

Her grandson Michael Disselnkötter was a reviewer for the Righteous Among the Nations department in Yad Vashem from 1998 to 2007 and published numerous publications on National Socialism.

Honor

  • Memorial plaque on the former rectory in Züschen
  • 1996: Award of the State of Israel as Righteous Among the Nations, for the rescue of Rahel Ida Plüer, nee Schild

literature

  • Thomas Schattner: The pastor couple hides a Jewish woman in the parsonage . In: Circular Letter No. 37. Ed .: Association for the Promotion of the Memorial and the Breitenau Archive e. V .. Kassel. March 2018. p. 78f ( available online (PDF))
  • Israel Gutman , Daniel Fraenkel, Jackob Borut (ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations - Germans and Austrians . Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag . 2005. ISBN 3-89244-900-7 . P. 97f. ( available on Google Books )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Israel Gutman, Daniel Fraenkel, Jacob Borut: Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations: Germans and Austrians . Wallstein Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-89244-900-3 , p. 97 ( google.de [accessed June 5, 2020]).
  2. ^ The Righteous Among the Nations Database. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Michael Dorhs. In: Thomas Schattner: The pastor couple hides a Jewish woman in the rectory . In: Circular Letter No. 37. Ed .: Association for the Promotion of the Memorial and the Breitenau Archive e. V .. Kassel. March 2018. p. 80 ( available online (PDF))
personal data
SURNAME Disselnkötter, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haas, Anita (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German welfare worker and recipient of the Righteous Among the Nations award
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Diedenhofen
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 2006
Place of death kassel