Else Imme

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Else Josefine Imme (born September 24, 1885 in Berlin ; † August 5, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German resistance fighter .

Life

Else was born in 1885 as the illegitimate daughter of the tailor Elisabeth Bertha Imme in her apartment at Oranienstrasse 201. Her mother married the worker Rudolf Paul Neugebauer in 1895. Imme learned the trade of saleswoman after attending primary school. She was a half-sister on the maternal side of Martha Bernstein , who emigrated to the Soviet Union in the 1930s and worked there for the Comintern administration.

From 1914 Else Imme was a department head in the Wertheim department store on Leipziger Strasse in Berlin-Mitte .

Imme became a member of the DAF and the NSV in 1933 . From 1934 she had regular contact with her sister in the Soviet Union.

Imme participated in the anti-fascist resistance struggle by collecting money for persecuted fellow citizens who were persecuted by the National Socialists for racist reasons. She also regularly listened to Radio Moscow broadcasts and passed this information on.

From 1938/1939 she made her apartment at Belforter Strasse 29 available for illegal meetings of the resistance group around Harro Schulze-Boysen . This apartment temporarily became the quarters for the parachutists Erna Eifler and Wilhelm Fellendorf, who had come to Berlin from the Soviet Union in the summer of 1942 .

Imme was arrested on October 18, 1942. After a short stay in the Gestapo prison on Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse , she was taken to the police prison on Alexanderplatz while on remand and after the RKG's judgment on January 30, 1943, by which she was sentenced to the maximum penalty for “favoring the enemy” Death row of the women's prison Barnimstrasse . The non-final judgment was carried out on August 5, 1943 at 7:30 p.m. in Plötzensee prison .

Honors

  • In 1969 she was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit in the Great Patriotic War, 1st class , by the Soviet Union

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933 - 1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 2, Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1970, pages 498 and 503
  • Günter Wehner : Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945 . Published by the history workshop of the Berlin Association of Participants in the Antifascist Resistance War BV VdN; Volume 3 (H to J); trafo-Verlag: Berlin 2004; Page 162

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Birth register StA Berlin Va No. 2819/1885 .
  2. ↑ Marriage register StA Berlin VIIIb No. 542/1895 .
  3. ↑ Die on Thursday, August 5th, 1943 by guillotine. (pdf) Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime, August 5, 2008, p. 1 , accessed on August 1, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Imme, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Imme, Else Josefine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1943
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee