Elfriede Mohneke

Elfriede Hildegard Mohneke , b. Engeleit , (born March 2, 1922 in Dorschen, East Prussia (now Poland ), † December 11, 1994 in Berlin ) was a guard in the Ravensbrück and Uckermark concentration camps .

Life

Elfriede Mohneke, a housewife by profession , was signed up by the employment office in October 1944 . On October 12, she then began training as a guard in the Ravensbrück concentration camp , where she was subordinate to Dorothea Binz . In November 1944 she was transferred to the Uckermark concentration camp to lead a prisoner block there. She later stated that she was unaware of any abuse of prisoners. After three weeks in the Uckermark camp, Mohneke returned to Ravensbrück, where she was in charge of Block 13 until April 27, 1945. At this point, she was already pregnant by her husband, whom she married in December 1944.

On trial by the British occupying forces, Mohneke was sentenced to ten years in prison on April 26, 1948 in the third Ravensbrück trial for involvement in the mistreatment of female Allied citizens in the Uckermark camp .

The convict asked for a lessening of the sentence in a pardon. She turned in it u. a. that she came to the Ravensbrück camp against her will through a service obligation by the employment office.

Mohneke was released early from prison on June 14, 1952 because of good conduct. She died on December 11, 1994 in Berlin.

literature

Silke Schäfer: On the self-image of women in the concentration camp. The Ravensbrück camp. Berlin 2002 (Dissertation TU Berlin), urn : nbn: de: kobv: 83-opus-4303 , doi : 10.14279 / depositonce-528 .

Footnotes

↑ There were two villages in East Prussia with the German names Dorschen , Dorschen (Lyck district) and Dorschen (Goldap district) . The dissertation by Silke Schäfer ( On the self-understanding of women in the concentration camp. The Ravensbrück camp. Berlin 2002, p. 208, PDF ) does not say which of the two is the place of birth.

personal data
SURNAME	Mohneke, Elfriede
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Engeleit, Elfriede (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German housewife, guard in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cod , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 1994
Place of death	Berlin

[1] There were two villages in East Prussia with the German names Dorschen , Dorschen (Lyck district) and Dorschen (Goldap district) . The dissertation by Silke Schäfer ( On the self-understanding of women in the concentration camp. The Ravensbrück camp. Berlin 2002, p. 208, PDF ) does not say which of the two is the place of birth.