Elisabeth Charlotte Gloeden

Elisabeth Charlotte Gloeden (also Lieselotte , called Lilo Gloeden , née Kuznitzky , born December 9, 1903 in Cologne , † November 30, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German lawyer who resisted the Nazi regime.

Life

After finishing school, Elisabeth Kuznitzky began studying law at the Ludwig Maximillians University in Munich. She did her doctorate in 1928 at the University of Cologne on German nobility law. She worked as a court trainee . Since 1938 she was married to the architect Erich Gloeden .

During the Second World War she had helped many Jewish friends and relatives to survive underground. The couple took in connection with the Hitler - assassination on 20 July 1944 sought General of Artillery Fritz Lindemann into his apartment, located in Berlin-Westend was.

The hiding place was betrayed and Elisabeth Gloeden was arrested on September 3, 1944 with her husband and mother Elisabeth Kuznitzky and charged before the People's Court . By taking all the guilt on himself, Erich Gloeden tried to protect his wife and mother-in-law from the death penalty . Erich Gloeden was sentenced to death on November 27, 1944. Elisabeth Gloeden and her mother admitted their complicity, were also sentenced to death for it and executed by beheading in the Berlin-Plötzensee prison.

Commemoration

In 1963, near the Plötzensee execution site, the Gloedenpfad was named after the Gloeden couple. On October 3, 2016, President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert recalled the fate of the Gloeden family in his speech on the Day of German Unity . The fate of Elisabeth Charlotte Gloeden is remembered in the memorial hall of the Charlottenburg town hall .

On 4 October 2010, the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig of the family from the house where, in the Kastanienallee 23 in Berlin-Westend , stumbling blocks laid for LILO GLOEDEN, her husband Erich Gloeden and her mother Elisabeth Kuznitzky.

On September 10, 2018, Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks for Elisabeth C. Gloeden and her parents Elisabeth and Martin Kuznitzky in front of the family's former address at Mohrenstrasse 26 in Cologne-Altstadt-Nord .

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  Stumbling block for Elisabeth Charlotte Gloeden, Kastanienallee 23, Berlin-Westend

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  Stumbling block for Elisabeth Charlotte Gloeden, Mohrenstrasse 26 Cologne-Altstadt-Nord

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  Stumbling blocks for the Kuznitzky family Mohrenstrasse 26 Cologne-Altstadt-Nord

Works

• (as Lieselotte Kuznitzky): The German nobility law according to Art. 109 RV. from 11. VIII. 1919: An under. on the abolition and continuation of nobility law with special consideration of Prussia. Bergisch Gladbach 1928, also Cologne, jurisprudence. Diss., 1928

literature

• Frank Bauer: They gave their lives: unknown victims of July 20, 1944: General Fritz Lindemann and his escape helpers . Chronos, 1995, ISBN 9783931054014 , 412 pp.

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Charlotte Gloeden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Plötzensee memorial
• Short biography with picture at the Evangelical Church Community of Charlottenburg-Nord
• Experience report by Josepha von Koskull about the arrest of the Gloeden family at the German Historical Museum

Individual evidence

1. ^ Civil status of the Ludwig Maximillians University in Munich . Winter half year 1924/25. Munich 1925, p. 107 .
2. ^ Brigitte Oleschinski, German Resistance Memorial Center : Plötzensee Memorial . Self-published, Berlin 1994, p. 38 f .
3. ↑ Gloedenpfad. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
4. ^ Norbert Lammert: Speech on the Day of German Unity 2016 in Dresden on October 3, 2016. Retrieved on October 23, 2018 . 
5. ↑ City Hall Charlottenburg memorials. January 12, 2016, accessed October 30, 2018 .