Anneliese Groscurth

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Anneliese Groscurth (born September 12, 1910 in Essen as Anneliese Plumpe , † September 28, 1996 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and resistance fighter against National Socialism in the " European Union " group.

Life

Honorary graves of Anneliese and Georg Groscurth at the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Anneliese Groscurth was one of the initiators of the European Union resistance group together with her husband Georg Groscurth as well as Robert Havemann , Herbert Richter and the couple Paul and Margarete Rentsch . Her husband Georg was one of her sixteen relatives sentenced to death in 1943/44.

After the end of the war, Anneliese Groscurth lived with their two sons Peter and Jan in Wehrda , but returned to Westend in the now West Berlin district of Charlottenburg and worked as a doctor in the district health department. On April 28, 1951, she participated in the founding of the Berlin Committee for the referendum against remilitarization of Germany and for the conclusion of a peace treaty ., One under the supervision of the People's Control Commission constantly by the SED leadership guided "creation of communist Germany policy." On May 9, 1951, she was dismissed from the public service for political reasons because she was active against rearmament . She was defamed as a communist and had her passport revoked, which she was only given back in the 1960s.

After the FDJ had street battles with the police during the World Festival of Youth and Students in West Berlin in 1951 , they founded the Groscurth Committee to investigate .

Through sustained boycott campaign by the West Berlin press, led by the daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel , she could with their own practice her family no longer feed and took a job in the clinic of the Berlin Rundfunk in East Berlin . The widow's pension and the OdF survivor 's pension were also withdrawn. The orphan's pension payments for the two sons were also stopped. The LaZ-Magazin commented on the legal disputes that Groscurth had to lead with the statement: "After 1989, the confrontation with the GDR past made people forget that there was also politically motivated perversion in the West."

Anneliese Groscurth died just two weeks after her 86th birthday on September 28, 1996 in Berlin. Her grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend. She lies there at the side of her husband Georg.

The last resting places of the Groscurth couple (grave location: I-Erb.-Mauer) have been dedicated as honorary graves of the State of Berlin since 2020 . The dedication is initially valid for the usual period of twenty years, but can then be extended.

Groscurth Committee

FDJ members reported these incidents to the committee in 1951, including Robert Havemann in the photo

In connection with a police operation against participants of III. World Festival of Youth and Students on August 15, 1951, during which there were numerous injuries, Groscurth turned to the public with a call to investigate the incidents. On August 28, 1951, some public figures formed the "Groscurth Committee", which was supposed to clarify the causes and connections of the police operation in a public hearing in East Berlin. In the following period, the committee also took on the legal assistance of the Committee of the National Front of Democratic Germany and was constituted on October 2, 1951 under the name Groscurth Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights and for the Defense of Patriots in West Berlin . In addition to Groscurth, his management included the lawyer Friedrich Karl Kaul . Legal aid was to be given above all to West Berliners who were affected by police violence, political reprisals and persecution or by professional bans, but also SED and FDJ members arrested during agitation operations.

Honors

Publications

  • Frontstadt - Terror in Westberlin , published by the Groscurth Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights and the Defense of Patriots in West Berlin, DNB 990270203

literature

Web links

Commons : Anneliese Groscurth  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sopos.org
  2. ↑ Michael Lemke: Unity or Socialism. The SED's German policy from 1949 to 1961 . Böhlau, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-412-14200-X , p. 145, there also the quotation
  3. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: http://www.bpb.de/popup/popup_druckversion.html?guid=XZB13B . February 2, 2007.
  4. ^ Andreas Ruhl: Stalin cult and Red Woodstock. The 1951 and 1973 World Youth Festival in East Berlin
  5. ↑ http://www.lernen-aus-der-geschichte.de/Lernen-und-Lehren/content/4138
  6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 487.
  7. ↑ Senate Department for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection: Honorary Graves of the State of Berlin (as of June 2020) (PDF, 439 kB), p. 29. Accessed on August 12, 2020. Recognition of graves as honorary graves of the State of Berlin (PDF, 163 kB ). Berlin House of Representatives, printed matter 18/2864 of August 7, 2020, pp. 1 and 5. Accessed on August 12, 2020.
  8. ^ New Germany of October 7, 1954, p. 4
  9. ↑ Yad Vashem Memorial honors "Righteous Among the Nations". Retrieved August 5, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Anneliese and Georg Groscurth Platz . Information from the district office of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf , requested on August 5, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Groscurth, Anneliese
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plump, Anneliese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1996
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg