Elisabeth Kuznitzky

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Elisabeth Augusta Kuznitzky, b. Freiin von Liliencron (born January 22, 1878 in Strasbourg ; † November 30, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was involved in the active resistance against the Third Reich .

Life

Elisabeth von Liliencron was the second daughter of Andreas Otto von Liliencron and his wife Caroline, nee. Wendelburg was born in Strasbourg.

Elisabeth Kuznitzky had been married to the Jewish urologist Martin Kuznitzky since August 8, 1901 and was the mother of Elisabeth Charlotte Gloeden . Elisabeth Gloeden and her husband Erich Gloeden had given General of the Artillery Fritz Lindemann shelter in the shared apartment. Lindemann was a co-conspirator on July 20, 1944 . Elisabeth Kuznitzky was arrested with her daughter and son-in-law on September 3, 1944 and charged before the People's Court . Erich Gloeden tried in court to protect the two women from the death penalty . He claimed that the two did not know that Lindemann was one of the wanted conspirators. Erich Gloeden was sentenced to death on November 27, 1944. Elisabeth Kuznitzky and her daughter thereupon preferred to be executed as well. Therefore, they admitted their complicity, were sentenced to death, as expected, and executed by beheading on November 30, 1944 in Plötzensee .

Commemoration

On 4 October 2010 the Cologne artists were Gunter Demnig before the former home of the family, in the Kastanienallee 23 in Berlin-Westend , stumbling blocks laid for Elisabeth Kuznitzky her daughter Elisabeth Charlotte Gloeden, and her husband Erich Gloeden.

On October 3, 2016, President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert remembered the fate of the Gloeden and Kuznitzky family in his speech on the Day of German Unity .

On September 10, 2018, on the initiative of the German Alpine Club , Rhineland section, stumbling blocks for Elisabeth Kuznitzky, her husband Martin Kuznitzky and her daughter Elisabeth C. Gloeden were laid in front of the family's former address at Mohrenstraße 26 in Cologne-Altstadt-Nord .

  • Stumbling block for Elisabeth Kuznitzky, Kastanienallee 23, Berlin-Westend

  • Stumbling block for Elisabeth Kuznitzky, Mohrenstrasse 26 Cologne-Altstadt-Nord

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

literature

  • Frank Bauer: They gave their lives: unknown victims of July 20, 1944: General Fritz Lindemann and his escape helpers . Chronos, 1995, ISBN 978-3-931054-01-4 , 412 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stumbling blocks in Berlin | Elisabeth Kuznitzky. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  2. ^ Brigitte Oleschinski, German Resistance Memorial Center : Plötzensee Memorial . Self-published, Berlin 1994, p. 38 f .
  3. ^ Norbert Lammert: Speech on the Day of German Unity 2016 in Dresden on October 3, 2016. Retrieved on October 23, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kuznitzky, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuznitzky, Elisabeth Augusta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter in the Third Reich
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1944
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee