Auguste Bollnow

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Auguste Bollnow (born September 2, 1874 in Kakernehl , † October 4, 1942 in Leipzig-Dosen ) was a member of the KPD . Because of resistance activities she was politically persecuted and murdered during the Nazi era .

Life

Auguste Bollnow was the daughter of a farm laborer and grew up with ten siblings. She was a member of the KPD from 1922 and worked as a cleaner at the Greifswalder Post until her arrest . After the takeover of the NSDAP made Auguste Bollnow political resistance . She was imprisoned for six weeks in 1938 for “despising” the National Socialists and after her release she was no longer employed by the post office. She then had to make a living by trading coal. Because she distributed reports on Radio Moscow in 1941 and called Adolf Hitler a mass murderer in conversation with other women at Greifswald Market, she was arrested again. In 1942, Auguste Bollnow died at the age of 68 in the Klein-Meusdorf women's prison in Leipzig-Dosen from abuse he had suffered while in prison.

Commemoration

From 1960 a plaque commemorated Auguste Bollnow in the entrance area of ​​the main post office on Greifswalder Markt. The inscription on the black marble slab read: “Comrade Auguste Bollnow / born on September 2, 1874 / worked for the post office from 1922–1938 / she was particularly active as a member of the / Communist Party of Germany /. During / the Nazi regime she was / arrested twice and in 1942 / murdered in the Leipzig women's prison ”. The clear indication of Bollnow's membership in the KPD prompted the post office staff in 1991 to cover the board with a wooden panel. Two years later, the memorial plaque was removed from the post office during renovation work and put into storage. In response to a request in 1994, the head of the office stated that the inscription "would no longer meet with the unreserved approval of all employees and postal customers".

literature

  • Stefanie Endlich, Nora Goldenbogen, Beatrix Herlemann, Monika Kahl, Regina Scheer : Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation. Volume 2: Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-89331-391-5 .
  • Anna Dora Miethe: Memorials. Labor movement, anti-fascist resistance, building up socialism (published by the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments in the GDR), Leipzig 1974.
  • Horst Bendig et al .: The anti-fascist resistance struggle under the leadership of the KPD in Mecklenburg 1933 to 1945 (published on behalf of the SED district leaderships in Neubrandenburg, Rostock and Schwerin), Berlin 1985.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cit. according to: Stefanie Endlich et al. 1999, p. 413.
  2. ↑ cit. according to: Stefanie Endlich et al. 1999, p. 414.
personal data
SURNAME Bollnow, Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Kakernehl
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1942
Place of death Leipzig dozen