Elfriede Scholz

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Memorial plaque on the house, Suarezstrasse 31, in Berlin-Charlottenburg
Stumbling block for Elfriede Scholz in Dresden

Elfriede Maria Scholz , née Remark (born March 25, 1903 in Osnabrück , † December 16, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German master tailor who fell victim to National Socialism in 1943 .

Life

Elfriede Remark came - five years after her brother, the later world-famous writer Erich Maria Remarque - as the youngest of five children of the bookbinder Peter Franz Remark (1867–1954) and Anna Maria Remark, née. Stallknecht (1871-1917) to the world. As a child she was often ill. She later completed an apprenticeship as a tailor. She finally came to Dresden via Leipzig and Berlin , where she settled as a dressmaker and in 1941 married the musician Heinz Scholz.

Like her brother, she was a staunch opponent of the National Socialists . A statement to a customer that the war was lost led to her arrest after being denounced to the Gestapo . In October 1943 she was sentenced to death before the People's Court in Berlin, chaired by Roland Freisler, for undermining military strength . In his judgment, Freisler is said to have explicitly referred to her pacifist brother and exclaimed during the trial: "Unfortunately, your brother has escaped us - but you will not escape us."

The judgment on 16 December 1943 in the place of execution of the punishment prison Berlin-Plötzensee by decapitation by guillotine enforced .

The news of the death of his sister, with whom contact had been broken, prompted her brother Erich Maria Remarque to deal with National Socialism in his work . The novel Der Funke Leben (1952) is dedicated to his sister. He had only found out about her death in 1946.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, the lawyer Robert W. Kempner tried on behalf of Remarque at the West Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office to prosecute those who were still alive. In 1970, the year Remarque died, Kempner received the decision to discontinue the company from the Berlin Chamber of Commerce . According to Kempner, the public prosecutor's office had not even heard the then assessor Kurt Lasch . According to the standards of the rule of law, Elfriede Scholz was still considered to be legally convicted. The death sentence was only overturned in 1998 by the Act to Repeal National Socialist Injustice Judgments in the Administration of Criminal Justice.

documentation

Appreciation

  • In 1968 her hometown Osnabrück named a street after her.
  • Since September 2013 a “ stumbling stone ” has been remembering Elfriede Scholz in Dresden .
  • On the 70th anniversary of Elfriede Scholz's death on December 16, 2013, a memorial plaque was unveiled in Berlin-Charlottenburg

literature

  • Claudia Glunz, Thomas F. Schneider: Elfriede Scholz, b. Remark . In the name of the German people. Documents of a judicial murder [exhibition catalog]. Universitäts-Verlag Rasch, Osnabrück 1997, ISBN 3-930595-76-1 (= writings from the Erich Maria Remarque Archive . Volume 11)

Web links

Commons : Elfriede Scholz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich-Maria-Remarque-Rundgang ( Memento of the original of April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the side of the city of Osnabrück @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.osnabrueck.de
  2. ↑ Robert W. Kempner in a letter to the editor to FAZ , October 2, 1970. Printed by Tilman Westphalen: The dignity of the human being is inviolable. Epilogue to Erich Maria Remarque: Der Funke Leben , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, 1998, pp. 375–401, here p. 389
  3. ↑ Scholz memorial plaque on berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Elfriede
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Remark, Elfriede Maria (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1943
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee