Antonie Möbis

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Antonie Clara Hedwig Möbis (born March 5, 1898 as Antonie Schmidt in Spremberg , † August 16, 1976 in Hamburg ) was a German politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Live and act

Antonie Schmidt was the daughter of a train driver. In 1910 she lost her father, in 1912 her mother died. She grew up with five older siblings and attended elementary school. After that she had to finance her own living. From 1912 to 1917 she worked as a domestic help and from June 1917 at the Deutsche Werft in Kiel . She was a union member in this company. In 1920 she joined the SPD and in June 1923 the KPD. Because of her political activities, she was " blacklisted " and lost her job.

Since she could not find any new employment in Kiel, Schmidt went to Hamburg in the summer of 1925. There she worked as an assistant nurse in the "Friedrichsberg lunatic asylum" and as a cleaner and in the meantime had repeatedly no work. Since she received a mandate when she was elected to the Hamburg citizenship in September 1931, she was released on November 4, 1931 from pre-trial detention on August 1, 1931 for "high treason". It had a seat in the citizenry until 1933.

During the time of National Socialism , Schmidt worked in the resistance movement, for which she delivered news. From September 16, 1933 to March 20, 1934 she was in Hamburg's remand prison. One day later she was transferred to the Lauerhof prison near Lübeck , where she was placed in solitary confinement for the months up to May 12, 1936. Then she was transferred to the Moringen concentration camp . Her imprisonment there ended on August 27, 1936. The Gestapo interrogated her in November 1939 after having previously denounced her, but did not arrest her. She spent the period from August 22, 1944 to October 24, 1944 in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp .

Ehrenfeld Geschwister-Scholl-Foundation

After the war ended, Schmidt worked in Hamburg as a ward woman in the auxiliary hospital on Weidenstieg. When they married in 1952, she took her husband's surname.

Honors

On the Ohlsdorf cemetery , in the area of ​​the honorary field of the Geschwister-Scholl-Foundation , grid square Bn 73 No. 358 (to the left of the penultimate block: there eighth row, twelfth stone), there is a pillow stone for Antonie Möbis.

The Antonie-Möbis-Weg in Eidelstedt has been named after her since 1991 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cushion stone Antonie Möbis at genealogy.net