Christa Schroeder (secretary)

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Christa Schroeder (born March 19, 1908 in Münden as Emilie Christine Schroeder , † June 28, 1984 in Munich ) was one of Adolf Hitler's four secretaries alongside Gerda Christian , Traudl Junge and Johanna Wolf from 1933 to 1945 .

Life

Schroeder worked from 1930 to 1933 as a secretary for the Reich leadership of the NSDAP in Munich . She was Hitler's private secretary from 1933 to 1945 and, together with Johanna Wolf , Traudl Junge and Gerda Christian, formed the quartet of so-called Führer's secretaries. At first she worked in the personal adjutantage of the Führer until 1939 . She then accompanied the dictator on business trips until April 1945. During this time Schroeder met many close contacts of Hitler and many high-ranking military and politicians of the Third Reich. She regularly recorded her experiences in letters, diaries and shorthand notes.

Schroeder was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 263.009) and since January 30, 1938 she has been the holder of the golden party badge .

In 1938 Schroeder got engaged to the Yugoslav diplomat Lav Alkonic from Belgrade . The engagement was broken off three years later because Hitler discovered the relationship and did not tolerate it.

On April 22, 1945, Schroeder, Wolf and other close associates of Hitler, who had been in the bunker under the Reich Chancellery up until then , were flown out of Berlin by plane and brought to the Berghof . It was there that Schroeder experienced the bomb attack on Hitler's mountain domicile on April 25, during which it was almost completely destroyed. After the Second World War , Schroeder was arrested and interned until May 1948. From the interrogation protocols and interviews after her release, Albert Zoller produced a work Hitler privat: The report of his secretary's experience , which appeared in 1949. She recently lived in seclusion in Munich. After her death, the book He was my boss - From the estate of the secretary of Adolf Hitler , based on her shorthand transcripts, was published.

Works

  • Albert Zoller: Hitler private: experience report of his secretary . Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1949.
  • Anton Joachimsthaler (Ed.): He was my boss. From the estate of Adolf Hitler's secretary. Langen-Müller, Munich a. a. 1985, ISBN 3-7844-2059-1 (5th, revised edition, ibid 1992).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall : The golden party badge and its honorary awards 1934-1944 (= studies on the history of awards. Vol. 4). Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-931533-50-6 , p. 13.
  2. ↑ Without a mask, without myth, private . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1949, pp. 9 and 10 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Schroeder, Christa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schroeder, Emilie Christine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German private secretary of Adolf Hitler
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hannoversch Münden
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1984
Place of death Munich