Elli Voigt

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Elli Voigt , born as Elli Lotte Garius , (born February 22, 1912 in Berlin ; † December 8, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Elli Garius is the daughter of the leather worker Alexander Garius and his wife Elvine . She grew up in a workers' household in Berlin with two siblings. After graduating from elementary school, she first became a domestic worker and later a factory worker. When her parents moved to Schönow , she became active there in the “ Fichte ” workers ' sports club .

In 1930 she married Max Giese. In 1931 their daughter Charlotte was born. In 1934 she divorced Max Giese. In 1935 she met the Communist Party functionary Fritz Voigt know to which it retained even contact than he to because of his resistance work penitentiary was sentenced and then in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was imprisoned. In 1940 he was released and together with Elli Giese he began to reactivate the resistance groups in Schönow. They married in 1941. When Fritz Voigt was forcibly recruited into the penal battalion in June 1943 , Elli Voigt took over his functions in the communist resistance movement. In 1943 their daughter Monika was also born.

Index card for Elli Voigt of the Plötzensee prison in Berlin

Elli Voigt worked in the Schönow cable factory and also made contact with the foreign forced laborers employed in this factory. From autumn 1943 she made connections with resistance groups in Bernau and Zepernick as well as with the management of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein organization . She distributed leaflets, supported forced laborers and tried to involve them in the resistance work. She was actively supported by her mother Elvine Garius. She also participated in the collection of money and food stamps and obtained papers for illegally living people. Gertrud Temlitz made her house in Schönow available to enable the production of leaflets. Due to her regular contacts with Anton Saefkow , she came under the Gestapo's wanted list at the beginning of June 1944 . On July 13, 1944, she was arrested and taken to the remand prison in Potsdam for interrogation by a special commission. The senior Reich attorney at the People's Court indicted her on September 13, 1944 in the Gustav Wegener case (8 J 188 / 44g). The indictment was changed in an addendum on October 6, 1944 and included the offenses of preparation for high treason, favoring the enemy and degrading military strength. After the conviction, she was taken to the Barnimstrasse women's prison in Berlin until the death sentence was carried out. The execution took place on December 8, 1944 in the Plötzensee prison in Berlin.

Honors

Memorial stone for murdered opponents of the Nazi regime in Schönow

literature

  • Annette Neumann, Susanne Reveles, Bärbel Schindler-Saefkow: Berlin workers' resistance 1942–1945. "Away with Hitler - end the war!" The Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein-Organization. Berlin Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Bund der Antifaschisten und Antifaschistinnen eV: Berlin 2009; Page 46f

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from Elli Voigt in Luigi Nono Il Canto Sospeso
  2. ↑ Remembrance as a future task, MOZ.de, January 28, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Voigt, Elli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voigt, Elli Lotte; Garius, Elli Lotte (maiden name); Giese, Elli Lotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1944
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee