Elisa Kauffeld

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Elisa Kauffeld , b. Krauss, (born October 17, 1913 in London ; † May 16, 2012 in Schortens ) was a German politician , author , peace activist , co-founder of the Jever / Schortens peace initiative . She was one of the first five stewardesses at Lufthansa

Life

Elisa Kauffeld was born in London to a German family. The father was a wholesale merchant.

In 1937, when she was 25, she was employed by Lufthansa as the first female flight attendant. During this time, Kauffeld met her future husband, a German radio operator.

With the beginning of the Second World War , civil aviation was discontinued and her husband was transferred to Spain to set up an airline. The couple lived in Barcelona. Because of the increasing threats of war, Kauffeld flew to her parents in Bremen when she was pregnant. During the birth of her son, she hid in the air raid shelter because her parents' house was bombed. Shortly after the birth, she and her baby fled to Danzig, where her in-laws lived.

In November 1942, her husband's plane was shot at and crashed. Her husband was killed in the process. Then Kauffeld wanted to go back to her parents in Bremen. In retrospect, it turned out to be fortunate for her that she no longer received a ticket for the ship Wilhelm Gustloff . The ship was torpedoed and sank with several thousand refugees.

Two years later, Elisa Kauffeld married again. From this marriage a daughter and a son were born. The family lived in Oldenburg . Since the late 1970s, Elisa Kauffeld lived with her daughter's family in Schortens in the Friesland district . There she died in 2012 at the age of 98.

Elisa Kauffeld is the namesake of the Elisa-Kauffeld-Oberschule in Jever .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative page of Elisa Kauffeld. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Elisa Kauffeld | Memories of three German wars (in 2000-1). Retrieved February 4, 2018 .
  3. ^ Nordwest-Zeitung: Naming: The school is named after Elisa Kauffeld . In: NWZonline . ( nwzonline.de [accessed February 8, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Freiraum - February 2012. Accessed February 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Who was Elisa Kauffeld. Retrieved on February 6, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Kauffeld, Elisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, author, peace activist, stewardess
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 2012
Place of death Schortens