Else Megelin

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Else Megelin (born August 23, 1905 in Berlin ; † 1986 in West Berlin ; nee Taege) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism . She belonged to the Red Raid Troop , which her husband Kurt Megelin led from 1934.

Life

Else Taege attended elementary school and then did a commercial apprenticeship. She became an office worker and from 1923 to 1927 was unionized in the Central Association of Employees . Since 1920 she belonged to the Socialist Workers' Youth and three years later became a member of the SPD . In the SPD, she became the women's leader in Prenzlauer Berg. After the seizure of power , she first became a municipal civil servant for life in the Prenzlauer Berg district office. However, she was arrested as early as August and taken to the Columbia-Haus concentration camp, where she remained imprisoned until May 29, 1934. She was then released for lack of evidence.

After her release, she joined the Red Assault Troop led by her fiancé Kurt Megelin. There she became organizational secretary and treasurer. During her husband's numerous imprisonment periods, she and Otto Ostrowski took on the leading role. From 1934 to 1943 she worked at Wünsch Herrenmoden. On June 15, 1942, she married Kurt Megelin. From 1942 she worked as a secretary in Wilhelm Leuschner's office , which she could use to camouflage her husband's work underground.

She survived the Second World War and became a member of the SPD again after the war.

literature

Dennis Egginger-Gonzalez: The Red Assault Troop. An early left-wing socialist resistance group against National Socialism. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86732-274-4 , including short biography on p. 459f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Else Megelin, b. Days 1905–1986 | Humanists in focus - Diversity destroyed. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Lukas Verlag für Kunst- und Geistesgeschichte: The Red Shock Troop An early left-wing socialist resistance group against National Socialism . 1st edition. Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86732-274-4 , pp. 459 f .
  3. ↑ Else Megelin, b. Days 1905–1986 | Humanists in focus - Diversity destroyed. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Megelin, Else
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1986
Place of death West Berlin