Christine Demmer
Christine Demmer , maiden name Christine Böllinger (born January 8, 1893 in Euskirchen , † 1969 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler ) was a German master hairdresser who campaigned for a Soviet slave laborer during World War II .
Life
Christine Demmer and her husband ran a hairdressing and tobacco shop in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler . Her husband died in 1941 and she continued to run the business on her own. To help her cope with the work, she was assigned the Soviet forced laborer Pascha Sadoroschna Prekovia. She was very homesick and subsequently made friends with a Soviet prisoner of war, from whom she became pregnant in 1943.
When the pregnancy could no longer be concealed, Christine Demmer and the forced laborer were summoned to see a Nazi doctor who was obliged by ordinance to abort the unborn child . Christine Demmer succeeded in preventing this, even after the head doctor of the hospital in the Bad Neuenahr health resort was called in. but this informed the Gestapo Koblenz. For unknown reasons, this did not become active and Pascha Sadoroschna Prekovia became mother of a son in the Anna monastery in Remagen in early 1944 . Christine Demmer paid for the cost of the stay with three cartons of soap from her barber shop. At the beginning of 1945, when the Allied troops and the child approached, the young mother and all prisoners of war and forced laborers were transported together and deported. Nothing is known about their further fate.
Christine Demmer was afraid of being arrested by the Gestapo until she was liberated from National Socialism . She continued running her business and passed away in 1969.
After the local advisory council of Bad Neuenahr had suggested this in February 2009, in March 2011 the city council of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler named a street in a new industrial area Christine-Demmer-Straße to honor the civil courage she showed. A member of the SPD parliamentary group thought it appropriate to name the street in an industrial park after a courageous businesswoman.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Christine Demmer in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
- ↑ a b c d Rhein-Zeitung : Late appreciation for Christine Demmer , March 8, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Demmer, Christine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Böllinger, Christine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German master hairdresser and resister against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Euskirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1969 |
| Place of death | Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler |