Elisabeth Flügge

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Elisabeth Flügge (née Uhrbach ; * February 4, 1895 in Hamburg ; † February 2, 1983 there ) was a German teacher who was honored as Righteous Among the Nations .

Life

Elisabeth Flügge was the daughter of a merchant, she grew up with two sisters. She was a Protestant Christian, her parents' home was shaped by Freemasonry . She joined the Wandervögeln , where she met her future husband, who was a German national. In 1916 she passed the teaching examination and taught at a pre-school for boys in Sierichstrasse until 1919 . In 1919 she married. Her father, who had warned her against this marriage, had recently died. Their son was born in 1920 and a daughter in 1922. She separated from her husband in 1924. In 1926 the marriage was divorced.

In 1926 she resumed teaching at the reformed private secondary school for girls run by Ria Wirth am Mittelweg . In 1930 she passed the second teaching examination for the higher teaching position. Her school started accepting Jewish girls from 1932 after Jacob Löwenberg's Jewish school in the neighborhood was closed. When the Jewish schoolgirls' freedom of movement was increasingly restricted, she rented a house in the village of Ollsen, now part of the Hanstedt municipality , where the girls spent their holidays.

In 1933, Elisabeth Flügge began collecting newspaper clippings from the Hamburg Foreign Gazette and the Frankfurter Zeitung . She added her own notes. She also read the publications of the Confessing Christians . On August 20, 1934, after the referendum on the unification of the offices of Reich President and Reich Chancellor on the person of Adolf Hitler on August 19, 1934, she noted in a black notebook : “Who will be the leader of the six million no-sayers or non-voters? What will come, a more moderate right-wing government or an even more severe dictatorship? Despite the command to flag, the mood is by no means sure of victory. You feel it exactly and wait for what is to come. "On August 18, 1934, after Adolf Hitler had spoken in Hamburg the previous evening, she wrote:" For almost two hours he raged, barked, yelped and raged, carried away by his own words, inflamed in his gigantic will, convinced of his unprecedented mission. ”On a report on“ cleansing operations ”against homosexuals in the Frankfurter Zeitung of December 18, 1934, she noted:“ Also a cleansing operation! ”

In 1938 she was transferred to a public girls' elementary school at the Große Freiheit , the transfer could be understood as a punitive measure. In 1940 she became a civil servant. When in 1942 she refused to take part in the Kinderlandverschickung , she was removed from her position and transferred to the main food office as a clerk. She continued to take care of her former students and their parents. In doing so, she managed, for example, to delay the deportation of the mother of a schoolgirl and, through her contacts abroad, to facilitate the emigration of others. In July 1943 she took in a Jewish doctor, his non-Jewish wife and adult son when their house was destroyed in a bombing. The family lived with her until the end of World War II .

At the end of 1944, her son refused to be promoted to officer and refused all orders, whereupon he was threatened with execution for refusing to give orders . She asked him to remain a soldier. The son died on the front in Courland in January 1945 .

From 1944 Elisabeth Flügge worked again as a teacher, initially at an elementary school in Sasel , and from 1946 as headmistress. Until 1947 she headed the elementary school Bäckerbreitergang, then until retirement in 1958 the elementary school Erikastraße, today's Wolfgang Bochert School. In 1953, she attended a class reunion held by former students in New York City .

In 2001 the State Center for Civic Education Hamburg published its collection of newspaper reports and notes under the title How will it go on ... Newspaper articles and notes from 1933 and 1934 collected and written down by Elisabeth Flügge .

Honors

literature

  • Flügge, Elisabeth. In: Daniel Fraenkel, Jackob Borut (Ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations. Germans and Austrians. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, pp. 113-114 ISBN 3-89244-900-7
  • Rita Bake (arrangement): How will it go on ... Newspaper articles and notes from 1933 and 1934 collected and written down by Elisabeth Flügge. State Center for Political Education, Hamburg, Hamburg 2001 ISBN 3-929728-58-3 ( digitized ; PDF; 1.7 MB).

Web links

  • Biography on hamburg.de
  • Biography at the exhibition Church, Christians, Jews in Northern Elbe 1933–1945

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rita Bake: What's to come . In: Rita Bake (arrangement): How will it go on ... Newspaper articles and notes from 1933 and 1934 collected and written down by Elisabeth Flügge , Hamburg 2001, p. 7
  2. ↑ Rita Bake (arr.): How will it go on ... Newspaper articles and notes from the years 1933 and 1934 collected and written down by Elisabeth Flügge , Hamburg 2001, p. 55
  3. ↑ Rita Bake: What's to come . In: Rita Bake (arrangement): How will it go on ... Newspaper articles and notes from the years 1933 and 1934 collected and written down by Elisabeth Flügge , Hamburg 2001, p. 148
  4. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
personal data
SURNAME Flügge, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uhrbach, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and Righteous Among the Nations
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1983
Place of death Hamburg