Gisela von Poellnitz

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Gisella von Poellnitz (born January 12, 1911 in Pasing ; † September 14, 1939 in Switzerland ) was a German journalist and resistance fighter .

Life

Gisella von Poellnitz is said to have been a member of the KJVD in Hamburg before 1933 and was imprisoned in Fuhlsbüttel for a while in 1933 .

In the mid-1930s she worked for United Press under the direction of Gösta von Uexküll .

Gisella von Poellnitz belonged to Harro Schulze-Boysen's opponents as early as 1932/33 . In 1936/37 she joined the circle of opponents of the Nazi regime gathered around him and was one of the "activists for whom it was not enough to lament the brown tyranny in private meetings."

In the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) the special staff W of General der Flieger Helmuth Wilberg was established, who directed the fascist relief efforts for Franco's putschist party. Secret threads ran from the RLM to all Franco coupists who fought against the Spanish Republic. Harro Schulze-Boysen collected all the information that he could learn about the special staff W : details about the German transports to Spain, about deployed officers and troops, about companies of the German agents . Since this group of opponents of the Nazi regime did not yet have relevant contacts abroad at that time, they processed these facts in an information letter that Gisella von Poellnitz threw into the mailbox of the Soviet trade agency in Berlin . Since this building was closely monitored, this led to the arrest of Gisella von Poellnitz and Harro Schulze-Boysen, as both were suspected by the Gestapo of having made contact with Soviet authorities. But neither the interrogation nor the house search revealed incriminating information. Heinrich Scheel recalled the words of a Gestapo commissioner in this context: “During the Spanish civil war we sent people of ours to the International Brigade as spies . Schulze-Boysen knew their names and passed them on to the Reds. Our people were then placed against the wall. "

After her arrest, Gisella von Poellnitz was only released a few months later; she hadn't given anything away. Schulze-Boysen got away with an interrogation and a house search with a warning from his employer.

Gisella von Poellnitz was largely related to Libertas Schulze-Boysen .

Gisella von Poellnitz fell ill with pulmonary tuberculosis and was brought to a sanatorium in Switzerland by the doctor Elfriede Paul on June 15, 1939 , where she died a few weeks later.

literature

  • Elfriede Paul : A consulting room in the Red Chapel ; Berlin 1981.
  • Hans Coppi : Harro Schulze-Boysen - Paths in the Resistance , Fölbach Verlag: Koblenz 1995, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-923532-28-8 .
  • Hans Coppi, Geertje Andresen (ed.): This death suits me. Harro Schulze-Boysen - Border Crossers in the Resistance; Letters 1915–1942 , construction of the paperback Publisher: Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-7466-8093-X .
  • Heinrich Scheel: Before the barriers of the Imperial Court Martial - my way into the resistance . Edition q: Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-86124-147-1 .
  • Silke Kettelhake: Tell everyone, everyone about me! Droemer Knaur: Munich 2008. ISBN 342627437X (via Libertas Schulze-Boysen)
  • Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance. results publisher: Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This death suits me. Harro Schulze-Boysen - Border Crossers in Resistance, Letters 1915–1942 , Structure of Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-7466-8093-X .
  2. ↑ Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance. results-Verlag: Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0 , page 34.
  3. ↑ Heinz Höhne : ptx calls moscow . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1968 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Hans Teubner : Exile Switzerland , page 62.
personal data
SURNAME Poellnitz, Gisela from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poellnitz, Gisella from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasing
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1939
Place of death Switzerland