Dora Fabian

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Dora Fabian (née Heinemann ; born May 28, 1901 in Berlin ; † April 1, 1935 in London ) was a German socialist and journalist .

Life

Fabian's mother was Else Levy Heinemann; her father the lawyer Hugo Heinemann , who defended left-wing politicians and trade unionists in political trials. Since 1924 she was married to the pacifist and resistance fighter Walter Fabian . Fabian was a member of the SPD and a pacifist. In 1928 she received her doctorate in economics from the University of Giessen .

As a socialist and pacifist, she went into exile in 1933. Initially, she lived in Ascona , Switzerland , where she met the pacifist and women's rights activist Helene Stöcker . Then she fled on to London .

There Fabian also supported the work of the writer Ernst Toller . The British labor leader Fenner Brockway described Dora Fabian as "one of the most courageous persons I have ever met".

Dora Fabian was a key figure in well-informed reports on German rearmament launched in the British press. Whether that is why the double poisoning in London in 1935 with Mathilde Wurm was not a suicide , but was initiated by the Gestapo , as the writer Anna Funder suspects, has not yet been clarified.

Literature about Dora Fabian

Fiction

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dora Fabian. In: Encyclopedia.com (accessed November 30, 2015).
  2. ↑ Helene Stöcker: Memoirs. ed. by Reinhold Lütgemeier-Davin u. Kerstin Wolff. Böhlau, Cologne 2015, p. 270.
  3. ↑ Dora Fabian. In: Encyclopedia.com (accessed November 30, 2015).
  4. ↑ Anna Funder: Everything I am. Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Fabian, Dora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinemann, Dora (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German socialist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1935
Place of death London , England , UK