Anna Schürkes

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Maria Anna Schürkes (born December 4, 1883 in Etgenbusch near Erkelenz , † December 2, 1971 in Immerath Hospital) was a German Jewish helper .

Life

The unmarried Anna Schürkes came from a Catholic farming family, she was the only daughter of Heinrich Schürkes and Helena, born Endpohl. She had four brothers, her eldest brother was the Catholic priest Anton Schürkes (* 1878, † 1924) and from 1918 the first pastor at St. Aloysius in Oberbruch. Anna Schürkes originally wanted to run the household with him in the rectory. But when her brother suddenly died in 1924, she became the housekeeper for the priest Joseph Emonds , who came from the neighboring Terheeg and also came from a rural family. It is not yet clear whether Anna Schürkes took up the position at Joseph Emonds in 1924 . The priest then worked from 1924 to 1926 as vicar in Dormagen, then at St. Peter in Cologne-Ehrenfeld. In 1928 he moved to St. Laurentius in Essen-Steele as a chaplain. Anna Schürkes is the housekeeper there. When Josef Emonds took over the pastor's position in Kirchheim near Euskirchen, she followed him.

Anna Schürkes loyally and secretly stood by the priest's disputes with National Socialism, even when he hid the Düsseldorf painter Mathias Barz and his Jewish wife Hilde in the rectory in Kirchheim in December 1944 . She also supported his other resistance work. So she knew the resistance fighter against National Socialism and Jewish helper Countess Marie Elisabeth Leonie Gertrud Paula zu Stolberg-Stolberg . In old age Anna Schürkes returned to Etgenbusch, she is buried in the cemetery in Venrath.

literature

  • Hans-Dieter Arntz : Persecution of Jews and Help for Refugees in the German-Belgian Border Region , Euskirchen 1990, pp. 712–714
  • Hans-Dieter Arntz: Joseph Emonds - Jewish rescuer and pacifist from Terheeg. The Kirchheim dean Joseph Emonds is posthumously honored by Yad Vashem as “Righteous Among the Nations” , in: Schriften des Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande e. V. No. 30 (From the history of the Erkelenzer Land.), Erkelenz 2015, pp. 146–167, ISBN 978-3-9815182-8-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gravestone cemetery Venrath
  2. ↑ City Archives Erkelenz, birth certificate Venrath 104/1883
personal data
SURNAME Schürkes, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schürkes, Maria Anna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter against National Socialism and Jewish helper
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Etgenbusch near Erkelenz
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1971
Place of death Immerath