Elisabeth Mill

Elisabeth Mill , née Elisabeth Lippert , (born November 6, 1897 ; † January 26, 1945 in Plötzensee prison , Berlin ) was a German seamstress and victim of the Nazi war justice system.

Life and activity

After attending school, Elisabeth Lippert learned the tailoring trade. In 1920 she married the widowed master tailor Heinrich Mill (* 1887). Together they both ran a small home tailoring shop at Elisenstrasse 10 in Aschaffenburg . In 1922 the only child, the son Alfred, was born. In 1935 Heinrich Mill hanged himself after an argument. Elisabeth Mill then worked in clothing factories and as a private tailor.

In 1941 the Reichsbahnschaffner OB (1914–2002) moved in to sublet Mill. In the autumn of 1942 she allegedly told him that Adolf Hitler was a "rascal" who had "plunged the whole world into misery" and further that, if she was born as her son, she would have known that he was once for a “bloodhound” like Hitler had to become a soldier, she would have killed him immediately after birth to spare him this lot. More than a year later, on 24 January 1944 denounced as Mill because of these statements to the police. It is unclear whether she uttered these at all or whether B. thought up these utterances due to private differences with her in order to harm her. Schmittner suggested that B., who had recently got engaged, was targeting Mill's apartment and used a fabricated denunciation as a means to get it into his possession. In any case, he and his bride lived in the apartment eight months after Mill's arrest. Mill's arrest came on January 27, 1944.

After her arrest, Mill was taken to the Aschaffenburg regional court prison ("Behind the Sand Church"). On April 12, 1944, she was taken to the Moabit remand prison at the Berlin Criminal Court. On November 17, 1944, there was an indictment of undermining military strength before the People's Court . In the judgment of December 21, 1944, she was found guilty and sentenced to death. As stated in the explanatory memorandum, she had "undermined the will of the German people to resist and tried to feed the enemy powers through foul inflammatory speeches against the Fiihrer." The execution of Mills - at this time physically (emaciated to 37.5 kg) and mentally (mental confusion) was already significantly marked - took place on January 26th in the prison in Berlin-Plötzensee by the guillotine .

Today a stumbling stone in front of Elisenstrasse 10 reminds of Elisabeth Mill.

literature

• Monika Schmittner: Persecution and Resistance 1933 to 1945 on the Bavarian Lower Main , 2002, pp. 329–335.

Web links

• Monika Schmittner: "Hate speech against the Führer", article on the blog Landkreis Miltenberg and surroundings