Frieda Seidlitz

Frieda Seidlitz occasionally Frida Seidlitz (born September 2, 1907 in Weißensee near Berlin ; † May 27, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Memorial plaque on the house at Heinersdorfer Strasse 32, in Berlin-Weißensee

Frieda Seidlitz was a saleswoman by profession. In 1931 she became a member of the KPD . She was Martin Weise's fiancée .

In April 1933 she was arrested for resisting National Socialism . After her release , she fled to Czechoslovakia.

She returned to Germany as a courier for the KPD foreign leadership and became a member of the illegal regional leadership of the Red Aid in Berlin-Brandenburg. She worked in direct cooperation with Fritz Hödel (1889–1966), who previously headed the Red Aid subdistrict in Weißensee and then took over the management of the North Berlin district . Together they organized the escape of 40 to 50 endangered resistance fighters.

Frieda Seidlitz lived “illegally” in Berlin and held a key position within the Red Aid resistance movement. She was both the material courier between the four Berlin districts and the key link to the technology department around Max Treder and Charlotte Gerbeit .

Arrested by the Gestapo in April 1936 , she committed suicide on May 27, 1936 because of the abuse she suffered during the interrogations so as not to endanger other “co-conspirators”.

Honors

On April 8, 1960, Frieda-Seidlitz-Strasse in Berlin-Weißensee was named after her.
The 3rd POS in Weißensee was named Frieda Seidlitz

literature

Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The “other” capital of the Reich: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1
Hans-Rainer Sandvoss: Resistance in Prenzlauer Berg and Weissensee. Volume 12 of the series of publications by the German Resistance Memorial Center , Berlin 2000, pp. 152ff
Luise Kraushaar : German resistance fighters 1933 to 1945. Berlin 1970, Volume 2, p. 412

Web links

Commons : Frieda Seidlitz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Frieda-Seidlitz-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )

Individual evidence

^ Sandvoss: The "other" capital of the Reich: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 . P. 429
^ Frieda-Seidlitz-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )

personal data
SURNAME	Seidlitz, Frieda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Seidlitz, Frida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 2, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin-Weissensee
DATE OF DEATH	May 27, 1936
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Sandvoss: The "other" capital of the Reich: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 . P. 429

[2] Frieda-Seidlitz-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )