Elisabeth Rose (resistance fighter)

Elisabeth Rose , called Liesbeth Rose (born November 8, 1910 in Hamburg ; † February 2, 1945 in Plötzensee prison , Berlin ) was a German seamstress and a victim of Nazi war justice.

Life and activity

Rose learned the tailoring trade in her youth. She had at least one child.

During the Second World War , Rose joined an underground communist cell organized by Max Kristeller that worked against the Nazi regime. Other important members of the group were Werner Etter and Ernst Hampel ( Etter-Rose-Hampel Group ). Rose took on the task of writing letters to soldiers at the front, in which she encouraged them to take an attitude against the Nazi state, and she also distributed anti-Nazi propaganda material.

After the authorities became aware of the activities through an informer, it was broken up in the spring of 1943. Rose was arrested on May 20, 1943. She spent a long time in the Barnimstrasse women's prison in Berlin.

At the beginning of 1945, Rose, together with Etter and Hampel, was indicted before the People's Court of undermining military strength , favoring the enemy and preparing for high treason . The trial took place in Potsdam . In the January 5 judgment, all three were found guilty and sentenced to death. In the justification it was stated with regard to Rose that she had carried out communist propaganda together with the half-Jewish communist functionary Kristeller and, in particular, contaminated young Wehrmacht members with this poison. The execution took place in the Berlin-Plötzensee prison.

Today the Liesbeth-Rose-Stieg in Hamburg-Neuallermöhe is a reminder of her.

literature

• Nobody and nothing is forgotten. Biograms and letters from Hamburg resistance fighters 1933-1945. A Ehrenhain documentation in text and images , 2005, p. 57.

Web links

• Bernhard Röhl: I think of you until my last breath . In: taz of February 26, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Liesbeth-Rose-Stieg on neu-allermoehe.de