Gertrud Lehmann-Waldschütz

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Gertrud Lehmann-Waldschütz (born February 20, 1905 in Waidmannslust ; died 2001 ) was a German writer at the time of National Socialism . After the Second World War , she was interned in various special camps of the Soviet occupying forces for five years and was then sentenced to ten years imprisonment at the Waldheim trials .

Life

Gertrud Lehmann was the daughter of a librarian and moved with the family to Wünsdorf in 1911 . There she trained as an accountant and worked as a young woman from 1921 to 1927 for the Reichswehr in the Wünsdorf Army Accommodation Office. She married in 1924, ran the beach bar on the Großer Wünsdorfer See and had four children. At the beginning of the 1930s she began to publish in daily and weekly newspapers and gave lectures on women's radio. She became a member of the Reich Association of German Writers and in 1935 of the Nazi Reich Chamber of Literature . In 1942 she published her first novel Regine und ihr See , and a second the following year.

Since 1934 she was active in the National Socialist Women's Association (NSF), where she rose to the position of district commissioner. Lehmann-Waldschütz became a member of the NSDAP in 1938 .

On May 14, 1945, she was arrested in Wünsdorf for her leadership role in the Nazi women's group. On May 30, 1945 she was transferred to special camp No. 6 in Frankfurt / Oder and then went through internment in other special camps: In September 1945 she was transferred to the special camp Jamlitz where she worked as a paramedic in the infirmary. In April 1947 she was transferred to special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg and later from there to special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald . In Jamlitz, she and Suse von Hoerner-Heintze organized a literary circle as part of the limited possibilities. In Mühlberg, the actress Marianne Simson , who denounced Fritz Goes after the Hitler attack , was her “barrack elder”.

Her husband was also a National Socialist and was sentenced in 1948 on political grounds. He remained imprisoned until 1951.

When the special camps were dissolved , she was transferred to Waldheim in February 1950 and sentenced there on May 23, 1950 to ten years in prison. After a general amnesty , she was released on October 6, 1952. In November 1953 , the family fled to West Berlin and moved from there to Wattenscheid . From 1964 she lived in Kaufbeuren . In the Federal Republic of Germany she was involved in the Association of Returnees, Prisoners of War and Members of Missing Persons in Germany (VdH) and was available as a witness after the fall of the Wall in old age for information and documentation on the special camps .

The novel Regine und ihr See was put on the list of literature to be sorted out in the GDR .

Contemporary witness

Your reports bear testimony to the problematic denazification policy and the reality in the Soviet special camps. On the other hand, the author asks about the relationship between guilt and atonement , i.e. between the participation of the individual under National Socialism and imprisonment in Soviet camps and German prisons.

“The foundations remained, what was humanly inadequate fell away. Error and guilt (yes, also guilt!) Seem to slowly emerge "

“We had a heated debate ... when I first heard from an eyewitness (Hilde, our 1st Jamlitz camp manager, former supervisor) about the gassing of Jews! Murder, guilt, atonement and atonement now became our part! And most of us women and mothers were ready to make this atonement, ready to the point of death, when something better emerged from such a sacrifice, that truly human life that would give meaning and dignity to all common sacrifices. If we were the last victims of human delusions and terrible passions ... Oh we fools, - yes, we lived remote, in no man's land! Apparently dead. The last idealists woke up in Waldheim at the latest! "

In an interview with Eva Ochs, she placed her fate as a special camp inmate next to that of the extermination camp inmates, “basically it was the same everywhere”.

Works

  • Gertrud Waldschütz: Regine and her lake . Novel. Moldavia, Budweis 1942.
  • Gertrud Waldschütz: Stranger Bird . Novel. Moldavia, Budweis 1943.
  • Gertrud Lehmann-Waldschütz zs. with Wolfgang Goszczak: Reports on Soviet special camps in Germany , ed. by Andreas Weigelt. Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-78-9

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography. ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 858 kB) State headquarters, p. 171 f. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politische-bildung-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ DNB 101817177 directory of the writings of Suse von Hoerner-Heintze
  3. ↑ Andreas Weigelt: Jamlitz - Special Camp No. 6 (September 1945 - April 1947) (PDF; 786 kB)
  4. ^ Ministry for National Education of the German Democratic Republic - List of the literature to be sorted out Transcript letter W # 5339, pages 205-217 Third supplement, Berlin: VEB Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1953 polunbi.de
  5. ^ Gertrud Lehmann-Waldschütz, Kassiber from the special camp No. 6 to the son, Jamlitz November 21, 1946.
  6. ↑ Gertrud Lehmann-Waldschütz, Aufzüge, approx. 1965. Both quotations from Andreas Weigelt: Retraining camps do not exist. On the history of the Soviet special camp No. 6 in Jamlitz 1945–1947 . (PDF) Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, Potsdam 2005
  7. ↑ Eva Ochs: "Today I can say yes". Camp experiences of inmates of Soviet special camps in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Böhlau, Cologne 2006, p. 208


personal data
SURNAME Lehmann-Waldschütz, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldschütz, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Huntsmanship
DATE OF DEATH 2001