Anna Götze (anarchist)

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Anna Götze (born April 6, 1875 (Leipzig), † July 18, 1958 ) was a German anarchist .

Life

Götze joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1897 and remained a member until 1917. She then became a member of the Spartakusbund , before starting her work at the Free Workers' Union of Germany ( Anarcho-Syndicalists ) (FAUD) in the early 1920s . At the end of 1918 she wrote a letter to the Bremen entrepreneur and patron Ludwig Roselius on the political situation in Germany after the First World War , which he published in 1919 along with other documents.

Götze worked as a folder in the printing industry, was married and had three children. Her son Ferdinand and daughter Irma were also active in the FAUD, while their son Waldemar became an advocate of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). The resulting internal family disputes gave way only after the seizure of power by the National Socialists, cooperation on activities underground. Götze had very free views on sexuality , which was evident in the conversations between mother and daughter.

Götze's apartment at 6 Sigismundstrasse in Leipzig became one of the liaison points for the resistance of the anarcho-syndicalists. An arrest in 1935 was followed by a second in October 1937. She was investigated for " preparation for high treason, gross nonsense, cohabitation and other offenses ". The proceedings against her ended with a conviction by the People's Court of three years in prison, which she spent in the Waldheim prison in Saxony . She was then taken to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp in Brandenburg without any further trial .

There Götze met her daughter Irma again. Both women were able to flee to the Baltic Sea during the death march in April 1945 and survive the end of the war.

literature

  • Hartmut Rübner : Freedom and Bread. The Free Workers' Union of Germany. A study on the history of anarcho-syndicalism , Libertad-Verlag, Berlin / Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-922226-21-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Police files Anna Götze. Saxon State Archives, accessed on February 24, 2018 (German).
  2. ^ Ludwig Roselius: Briefe , Druck- und Kommissions-Verlag HMHauschild, Bremen 1919; (also as digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Gotze, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anarchist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1875
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1958