Eva Hermann (Righteous Among the Nations)

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Eva Hermann (née Lüddecke ; * May 24, 1900 ; † July 31, 1997 in Marburg ) was a German Righteous Among the Nations .

Life

Eva Lüddecke was the daughter of pastor Ewald Lüddecke from Badenhausen , her mother was Elisabeth Lüddecke, née Freystedt. In 1924 she married the physicist Carl Hermann in Berlin . The couple adopted a boy and a girl. The couple were Protestant. They were pacifist and devoted to Quakerism , but did not officially join the movement until after 1933. From 1935 the couple lived in Mannheim.

After the persecution of Jews began in 1933 , Eva Hermann helped to make emigration easier for Jews . She collected information about the deportation of Jews from Mannheim in 1940 and summarized it in a report.

The Hermann couple used their personal funds to support the Mannheim Jews deported to the Gurs camp. It provided them with clothing and food.

The Hermanns' circle of friends included Hilde and Fritz Rosenthal from Berlin. Hilde Rosenthal b. Laubhardt, an older sister of Eva Laubhardt , had been a school friend of Eva Hermann. Eva and Carl Hermann offered them shelter in January 1943, but they were arrested in March 1943. Hilde Rosenthal was deported to Theresienstadt and later (in October 1944) to Auschwitz, where she died; Fritz Rosenthal committed suicide after his arrest.

The Hermann couple was taken into " protective custody ". Carl Hermann was sentenced to eight years in prison, but was allowed to continue his research during the day. Eva Hermann was sentenced to three years in prison in 1943. She was liberated by the Western Allies in 1945 and was then one of the first to be given a two-week stay at Rest Home Bad Pyrmont . It was here that she wrote her text “Captured and yet free”.

Eva Hermann devoted the second half of her life primarily to the work of reconciliation with Israel. Together with her husband, who took over a professorship at Philipps University in 1947, she lived in Marburg an der Lahn; she remained there until her death in 1997, engaged in peace politics. Eva Hermann and posthumously her husband Carl, who died in 1961, were honored as Righteous Among the Nations in 1976. In 2014, the city council of Mannheim decided to name a street after her.

Works

  • Trapped Yet Free , The Tract Association of Friends, Pennsylvania (USA), 1948.
  • In what is eternal , Richard L. Cary lecture, published by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) German Annual Meeting eV, Bad Pyrmont, 1970, 2nd edition, reprint 1996, ISBN 3-929696-17-7

Web links

literature

  • Hermann, Carl; Hermann, Eva . In: Daniel Fraenkel, Jackob Borut (Ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations. Germans and Austrians . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-900-7 , pp. 148-149.
  • Claus Bernet: The Rest Home for those persecuted by the Third Reich. In: exile. Research - Findings - Results. Issue 2/2004, pp. 75-81. Updated version: News about the "Rest Home": Help for victims of the Nazi dictatorship 1933-1939 in Germany
  • Angela Borgstedt: Eva (1900-1997) and Carl Hermann (1898-1961) - two Quakers from Mannheim helped Jews . In: Angela Borgstedt et al. (Ed.): Courage proven. Resistance biographies from the southwest (= writings on political regional studies of Baden-Württemberg , published by the State Center for Political Education Baden-Württemberg, vol. 46), Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 9783945414378 , pp. 229-238.

Individual evidence

  1. http://buergerinfo.mannheim.de/buergerinfo/getfile.asp?id=8049320&type=do
  2. Life data according to Joachim H. Koch (Ed.): Exil. Vol. 23-23, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISSN  0721-6742 , p. 78.
  3. ^ Mauritius Renninger:  Hermann, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 662 ( digitized version ).
  4. http://buergerinfo.mannheim.de/buergerinfo/getfile.asp?id=8049320&type=do
  5. ^ Information from the International Tracing Service (ITS), 34454 Bad Arolsen.
  6. Claus Bernet: The rest of the home for persecuted people of the Third Reich , p. 78
  7. Eva Hermann: A Righteous Among the Nations
  8. ^ The Righteous Among The Nations: Hermann FAMILY
  9. http://buergerinfo.mannheim.de/buergerinfo/getfile.asp?id=8049320&type=do
  10. This information comes from the title information in the DNB catalog . There, however, the title is linked to a wrong author. In WorldCat, the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Bad Pyrmont is given as the publisher and the year of publication is “195?”. Possibly this is a reference to a reprint, because in the Historical Dictionary of the Friends it says for the first publication "first published in 1947 by American Friends". Margery Post Abbott et al .: Historical Dictionary of the Friends , The Scarecrow Press Inc., Lanham / Toronto / Plymouth (UK), 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6857-1 , p. 164.