Erika Countess von Brockdorff
Erika Countess von Brockdorff born. Schönfeldt (born April 29, 1911 in Kolberg , Pomerania Province , † May 13, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German resistance fighter . She belonged to the resistance movement of the Red Chapel .
Life
Erika Schönfeldt came from Kolberg on the Baltic coast of Pomerania . From 1929, after completing secondary school and a housekeeping school, she worked in Berlin as a domestic worker and office worker. In 1937 she married the visual artist Cay-Hugo Graf von Brockdorff and shortly afterwards her daughter Saskia was born.
She worked as an employee in the Reich Office for Occupational Safety and Health and in the German Industrial Safety Museum in Berlin-Charlottenburg .
From 1941 Erika Countess von Brockdorff made her apartment at Wilhelmshöher Strasse 17 available to the resistance group around Hans Coppi for radio experiments. On September 16, 1942, she was arrested and taken to the Charlottenburg women's prison at Kantstrasse 79. She was sentenced to ten years in prison by the Reich Court Martial. At Hitler's insistence , the sentence was commuted to a death sentence in January 1943 . On the evening of May 13, 1943, she and 13 other people were beheaded in Berlin-Plötzensee prison .
Honors
- In 1969 she was posthumously awarded the Soviet Order of the Patriotic War .
- On October 3, 1985, the municipal vocational school II (today the old trade school ) in Leipzig - Kleinzschocher was named "Erika von Brockdorff"
- On May 25, 2011, the eastern forecourt at Berlin Südkreuz train station was named after her.
Stumbling stone in front of the house, Wilhelmshöher Strasse 17, in Berlin-Friedenau
Entrance sign to the municipal vocational school KBS II "Erika von Brockdorff", 1987, today the old trade school Leipzig
literature
- Gilles Perrault : On the trail of the Red Chapel . (Revised edition), Rowohlt 1994
- Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance. - With an introduction by Heinrich Scheel . results publisher: Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0 .
Web links
- German Resistance Memorial Center
- Interview Joachim Scholtyseck with her daughter Saskia in: Eva Madelung , Joachim Scholtyseck : Heldenkinder, traitorkinder. When parents were in resistance. , Beck 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56319-5 , pages 166 - 180. Partly online via Google Books.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brigitte Oleschinsk: Plötzensee Memorial , p. 28 (PDF)
- ^ New Germany from December 23, 1969
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Brockdorff, Erika Countess of |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schönfeldt, Erika (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter in World War II |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1911 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolberg , Pomerania Province |
DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1943 |
Place of death | Berlin |