Anna Sabine Halle

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Anna Sabine Halle (* 1921 in Berlin ; † August 2014 there ) was a granddaughter of Gustav Lilienthal , author and Quaker .

Life

Anna Sabine Halle was a great niece of the aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal . Since 1940 she was a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) - German Annual Assembly (DJV). Her mother Olga Halle headed the international Quaker office after the war began in 1939, after the last foreign Quaker had left Germany, and has been interrogated by the Gestapo on several occasions since 1937 because of her commitment . Her father Gerhard Halle , a staunch pacifist, refused military service during the Nazi era. On September 9, 1940, he wrote a written protest to the leadership of the Berlin NSDAP against the euthanasia campaign .

At the age of sixteen, Anna Sabine Halle was jointly responsible for the Berlin youth group of Quakers ( young friends ), which included 8 children from Quaker families and children of SPD members as well as 25 children from Jewish families. She was therefore interrogated by the Gestapo together with Günther Gaulke, who was the same age, in 1937 after the Hitler Youth (HJ) attacked the group. After graduating, she worked as a teacher and was part of the management of the Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus . From 1945 to 1950 she accompanied the reintegration negotiations for persecuted Jews as a representative of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) . She supported social projects and organized foreign aid programs for the Berlin population. Extensive lecture tours took her to the USA. Halle was active in the SPD and in the Association for the History of Berlin . From 1970 to 1981 she was actively involved in attempting nonviolent reforms at the Free University of Berlin. Also in the 1970s, Halle was the clerk (chairwoman) of the (West) Berlin Quaker group (Quaker assembly ) in the Mittelhof (Zehlendorf). In 1975 she became an archive worker in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and worked from 1983 to 2006 as the Quaker representative for the documentation of the years 1933–1945. In this context, a close collaboration began with the Berlin State Archives, the Diocesan Archives and with foreign researchers and surviving Jews. Anna Sabine Halle donated part of her collection to the Berlin State Archives in the 1990s. As the representative for Nazi history, she also represented the DJV externally, in particular in a dispute about the representation of the Quaker resistance in the exhibition of the German Resistance Memorial Center (Berlin). In 2007 she resigned from the DJV. Her application for reopening was rejected by the DJV in 2009.

In her work (see below) Halle dealt with Quakerism and Judaism , especially during the time of National Socialism .

Until her death, she lived in her grandfather's house, the Marthastraße 5 monument in Berlin-Lichterfelde.

Works

  • All human beings are our brothers ... Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Bad Pyrmont 1984.
  • Thoughts are free ... A youth group of Berlin Quakers 1935–1941 . (PDF) Berlin 1980, 1982.
  • Leonard S. Kenworthy: An American Quaker in Nazi Germany. [For German readers commented u. abbreviated over. by Anna Sabine Halle]. Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Bad Pyrmont 1984.
  • Attitude and actions of the Quakers in the Third Reich . In: Berliner Theologische Zeitschrift , New Series, 9, 1, 1992, pp. 2-14.
  • Quaker care and behavior in National Socialist Germany. Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Bad Pyrmont 1993, ISBN 3-929696-10-X .
  • The German Quakers and the Third Reich . In: German History , 11, 2, 1993, pp. 222-236.
  • Christians and non-religious of Jewish origin. A documentation in the Landesarchiv Berlin . In: Berlin in Geschichte und Gegenwart , 2001, pp. 181–188.
  • On Non-Faithful Jews - Notes on a Concept and an Archive Collection . In: exile . Research - Findings - Events, 23, 1, 2003, pp. 89-96.

literature

  • Joachim Strunkeit: Anna-Sabine Halle on her 80th birthday. In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins , 98, 2002, issue 1, p. 330.
  • Giesela Faust: Take in what God has put in front of your door . Published by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) - German Annual Meeting e. V., Bad Pyrmont 2006 (family history of the Halles).
  • Left Otto - right Gustav . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 4, 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisela Faust: Take what God has put in front of your door, Bad Pyrmont 2006, p. 6.
  2. ^ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss: Resistance in Steglitz and Zehlendorf . Berlin 1986, p. 125 u. 126 (Volume 2 of the series of publications on the resistance in Berlin 1933 to 1945, edited by the German Resistance Memorial Center ).
  3. ^ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss: Resistance in the middle and zoo . 2. change u. extended Edition. Berlin 1999, p. 281 (Volume 8 of the series of publications on the resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945, edited by the German Resistance Memorial Center ).
  4. ^ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss: Resistance in the middle and zoo . 2. change u. extended Edition. Berlin 1999, p. 277 (Volume 8 of the series of publications on the resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945, edited by the German Resistance Memorial Center ).
  5. ↑ Extract from the inventory overview. ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Landesarchiv Berlin, E Rep. 300-39
  6. ^ Minutes of the AA 2009, p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Halle, Anna Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 2014
Place of death Berlin