Frieda Vahrenhorst

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Frieda Vahrenhorst (born February 27, 1915 in Hanover ) was a leading political activist of the Socialist Front .

Life and activity

After attending elementary school and the advanced school in Wunstorf, she went to France in 1932, where she first worked in a stocking factory in Troyes . She then got a job as a nanny for a Rittmeister in Paris. From there she went to relatives in The Hague as a nanny . In 1935 Vahrenhorst returned to Germany, where she worked briefly as a worker in the Edler & Krusche book and lithographic printing company.

From the end of 1935 Varenhorst took over errands for the socialist underground group organized by Werner Blumenberg . For example, she gave a contact person ready-made socialist papers for launch in the post-censored post. She later participated in organizing the international mailing of such papers. After other functionaries were arrested or emigrated, she rose to the leadership of the Socialist Front.

On the night of August 16-17, 1936, Varenhorst fled to the Netherlands with Werner Blumenberg after indications had accumulated that the police had become aware of their activities and that their arrest was imminent.

Classified by the National Socialist police as an enemy of the state, Vahrenhorst was placed on the special wanted list GB by the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin, which she suspected to be in Great Britain, in the spring of 1940 , a list of people who would be detained by SS special commandos in the event of an occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht who were to follow the occupation forces should be identified and arrested with special priority.

After the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II , Frieda Vahrenhorst lived there under a false identity with Werner Blumenberg after his wife and their children had to leave him to avoid her husband's arrest. In 1944 Vahrenhorst and Blumenberg had a daughter together. After Blumenberg had divorced his first wife in 1948, Frieda Vahrenhorst married him in 1953. The couple settled permanently in the Netherlands, where Blumenberg worked at the International Institute for Social History .

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  1. ↑ a b c Benser, Schneider pp. 43–44.
  2. ^ Herbert Obenaus, Marlis Buchholz, Claus Füllberg-Stolberg, Hans-Dieter Schmid: National Socialism and Region. Festschrift for Herbert Obenaus on his 65th birthday. Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 1997, p. 150. ( books.google.de )
  3. ^ Gunnar Menkens: Hanover in the Nazi era - commemoration of the "Socialist Front" from 1934. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . November 14, 2012, accessed January 4, 2016 .
  4. ^ Hitler's Black Book - information for Frieda Vahrenhorst. In: forces-war-records.co.uk. July 19, 1947, accessed on January 4, 2016 (English, entry on Vahrenhorst on the special wanted list GB).
personal data
SURNAME Vahrenhorst, Frieda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political activist (Socialist Front)
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover