Elisabeth Bethge

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Elisabeth Bethge (born Hoffmann June 29, 1905 in Berlin - August 6, 1943 in Brieselang ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism who died as a result of Nazi imprisonment.

Life

Elisabeth Bethge was active in the Communist Youth Movement in Berlin from 1926 . She worked as a secretary . In 1937 she was arrested by the Gestapo and charged with high treason and convicted. She had to serve her imprisonment in the women's prison in Leipzig. She was released early in 1939 because of pneumonia and tuberculosis . As a result, she withdrew completely to her summer house on Kameruner Strasse in Brieselang . There she died at the age of 38 as a result of imprisonment.

Commemoration

Stumbling stone for Elisabeth Bethge (Brieselang) .jpg

The municipality of Brieselang honored Elisabeth Bethge in various ways:

  • The Kameruner Strasse in Brieselang was renamed Elisabeth-Bethge-Strasse on its 100th birthday.
  • On March 28, 2015, Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in front of the house in Elisabeth-Bethge-Straße No. 2, where she last lived and eventually died .

Lexicon entry

  • Bethge, Elisabeth. In: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945 - A biographical lexicon. Volume 1 (letters A and B), published by the history workshop of the Berlin Association of Former Participants in the Anti-Fascist Resistance, Victims of the Nazi Regime and Survivors (BV VdN) eV under the direction of Hans-Joachim Fieber, Trafo Verlag , Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3 -89626-351-3 , p. 151.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Balzer: Unforgotten fates. In: MOZ.de . March 30, 2015, accessed October 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Marlies Schnaibel: Dallgow stumbles over stumbling block. In: maz-online.de . February 17, 2015, accessed October 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Balzer: Stumbling blocks in Brieselang moved. In: maz-online.de. March 29, 2015, accessed October 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bethge, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffmann, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1943
Place of death Brieselang