Else Gebel

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Else Gebel (born July 5, 1905 in Augsburg , † 1964 in Munich ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism . She was best known for her joint imprisonment with Sophie Scholl in the Gestapo control center in the Wittelsbacher Palais before her execution.

Life

Else Gebel grew up with her two brothers Willy and Arno. She was closely connected to Willy Gebel, and they both lived in the same apartment until 1935. Else Gebel's mother died when she was 20. The three siblings were critical of the National Socialist doctrine . Else Gebel worked as the chief secretary of the Jewish department store owner Max Uhlfelder in Munich until the November pogroms in 1938 . His department store Uhlfelder was devastated by the National Socialists during the Reichspogromnacht 1938, Max Uhlfelder was arrested and taken to the Dachau concentration camp ., He returned to Munich in 1953, his plan to rebuild the department store failed. Else Gebel managed to escape. She was subsequently employed by the Diamalt company until she was arrested .

She and her brother Willy Gebel were members of the “Aufbruch-Arbeitskreis”, later the “Gruppe Römer-Uhrig” around Beppo Römer and Robert Uhrig , a communist resistance group against National Socialism. In 1942 they were tracked down and arrested with a letter with quotations from Ludwig Thoma against Adolf Hitler . Her brother Willy was sentenced to death on March 24, 1944 and executed in April 1944. It was on 20 June 1944 a penitentiary convicted of one year and four months and had to work as an accountant for the Nazis.

During her pre-trial detention, she met the arrested Sophie Scholl on February 18, 1943, made friends with her and had conversations with her. On February 22, 1943, Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans Scholl and their friend Christoph Probst were sentenced to death.

After the war, Else Gebel kept many memories of her deceased cellmate, as portrayed in the films Five Last Days and Sophie Scholl - The Last Days . Else Gebel died in 1964.

Literature (selection)

  • Christine Hikel: Sophie's sister: Inge Scholl and the White Rose. Dissertation. Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, pp. 102-104, 134, 135, 139. Google preview
  • Ulrich Chaussy and Gerd R. Ueberschär : Else Gebel - solidarity of a resistance. In: this: "Long live freedom!" - The history of the White Rose and its members in documents and reports. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-18937-3 . Pp. 167-172.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Letter from Else Gebels “What a wonderful sunny day and I have to go”. Georg Elser Working Group Heidenheim, accessed on April 3, 2016 .
  2. ^ Hartmut Mehringer, Klaus Schönhoven, Anton Grossmann: The parties KPD, SPD, BVP in persecution and resistance . Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-486-70838-7 , p. 276 ( google.de ).
  3. ↑ Ulrich Chaussy, Gerd R. Ueberschär: "Long live freedom!": The history of the White Rose and its members in documents and reports . S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-402257-4 , p. 5–9 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Gebel, Else
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter during the Nazi era
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 1964
Place of death Munich