Hannah Vogt

Hannah Adelheid Charlotte Vogt (born March 3, 1910 in Charlottenburg near Berlin, † February 13, 1994 in Göttingen ) was a German author.

Life

The daughter of the Göttingen library councilor Wilhelm Vogt began studying natural sciences in Berlin after graduating in 1929/30. In 1930 she changed both the subject and the place of study and henceforth studied economics, first in Hamburg, and then in the following year at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

Vogt joined the KPD in August 1930 . Five days after the Reichstag election in March 1933 , she was imprisoned in Osterode am Harz on suspicion of high treason . On June 3, 1933, she was transferred to the Moringen concentration camp as one of the first female “protective prisoners” , where she was detained without trial until December 1933 and only pardoned in the course of a Christmas amnesty. Vogt's 92 letters from this period have been preserved and have since been published. After her release, she initially worked as an employee of the immigrant headquarters of the Reich Security Main Office . In 1942 she resumed her economics studies in Marburg, only to graduate two years later with a diploma. In December 1945, Hannah Vogt was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. It was the second dissertation at the Georg-August-Universität after its reopening. After the war, Vogt was heavily involved in the Göttingen emergency aid . Throughout her life she campaigned for a confrontation with National Socialism. For a while, she also chaired the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation .

Her interest in politics and recent history also determined her professional field of activity at the Hessian State Center for Homeland Service and later at the Hessian State Center for Political Education . In 1961, Hannah Vogt published her critical study Schuld oder Verfahrnis? - 12 questions to Germany's recent past a bestseller that sold 400,000 times in the first two years. Various publications on political and historical topics followed, as well as editorships of the writings of Friedrich Naumann and Heinz Rosenberg .

Politically, she was initially active in the Free Democratic Party after the Second World War , and from 1962 in the Social Democratic Party of Germany . In 1948 she ran for the first time for the City Council of Göttingen. She was not elected, but moved up later. On their initiative, the city set up annual “young citizens' celebrations” at which the new voters were welcomed. Her candidacy for the post of Lord Mayor of Göttingen in 1973, however, was prevented by the FDP, which refused to accept apostates. In 1978 Hannah Vogt was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class . On March 14, 1987, she was made an honorary citizen of Göttingen. She died shortly before her 84th birthday and was buried in the city ​​cemetery (Göttingen) . In November 2003 a memorial was set up in her Easter cell or prison cell.

Works

• 1945: the worker. Essence and problems with Friedrich Naumann, August Winnig, Ernst Jünger , dissertation, Grone-Göttingen: Schönhütte.
• 1946: The second rider. Poems , Lüneburg: Heliand.
• 1948: The Rainbow , Lüneburg: Heliand.
• 1952: The primer of the citizen , Wiesbaden: Office for women's issues in society for the design of public life.
• 1955: The household of the community , Hessian regional center for homeland service.
• 1955: We and the Police , Wiesbaden: Hessian State Center for Homeland Service.
• 1956: The Suez Crisis , Wiesbaden: Hessian State Center for Homeland Service.
• 1957: Black and white: For the Week of Brotherhood , Wiesbaden: Hessian Headquarters for Homeland Service.
• 1957: Who has the choice ... , Weinheim: Beltz.
• 1958: The Jews and us. For the Week of Fraternity 8. – 15. March 1958 , Wiesbaden: Hessian headquarters for homeland service.
• 1959: Self-criticism of the peoples. For the Week of Fraternity 8.-14. March 1959 , Wiesbaden: Hessian headquarters for homeland service.
• 1959: Justice elevates a people: A reader on legal history and legal education , Frankfurt am Main-Berlin-Bonn: Diesterweg.
• 1960: refugees around the world. For the Week of Fraternity 14. – 19. March 1960 , Wiesbaden: Hessian headquarters for homeland service.
• 1961: guilt or fate? 12 questions to Germany's recent past , Frankfurt am Main-Berlin-Bonn: Diesterweg.
• 1963: On June 17, 1963: "It's about freedom!" , Wiesbaden: Hessian headquarters for homeland service.
• 1963: Yoke and Crown: History of the Jewish People from the Exodus to the Founding of the State of Israel , Frankfurt am Main: Ner-Tamid-Verlag.
• 1965: Israel, the Arabs and the Federal Republic , Wiesbaden: Hessian headquarters for homeland service.
• 1965: Law must remain law: The trials against violent Nazi criminals , Wiesbaden: Hessian headquarters for homeland service.
• 1967: Nationalism yesterday and today: texts and documents , Opladen: Leske.
• 1969: Democracy equals thinking and decision-making , Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Ratgeberverlag.
• 1969: Parliamentary and extra-parliamentary opposition , Wiesbaden: Hessian State Center for Political Education.
• 1978: Georg Diederichs, On the Week of Brotherhood 8. – 15. March 1958 , Hanover: Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education.

literature

• Hans Hesse (ed.): Hope is an eternal burial. Letters from Dr. Hannah Vogt from the judicial prison in Osterode and the Moringen concentration camp 1933 , Bremen: Ed. Temmen 1998.
• Ute Hinze, Bettina Kratz-Ritter: Hannah Vogt. Göttingen councilor and honorary citizen , publications of the Göttingen Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, Issue 4, Göttingen 2006.

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Moringen concentration camp memorial

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: The Worker. Nature and problems in Friedrich Naumann, August Winnig and Ernst Jünger .
2. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 172, September 13, 1978.