Hedwig Reiling

Hedwig Reiling , b. Hedwig Fuld (born February 21, 1880 in Frankfurt am Main ; † after March 24, 1942), was the mother of Anna Seghers .

Life

Hedwig Reiling came from a long-established Mainz family. She was the daughter of Helene and Salomon Fuld and married Isidor Reiling in 1899, the co-owner of the Mainz art and antiques dealer David Reiling. In 1900 their daughter Netty was born, later Anna Seghers . The family belonged to the Orthodox Jewish religious community and was one of the city's liberal democratic circles. Hedwig Reiling acknowledged her social responsibility and was involved in numerous voluntary projects. She was a founding member and board member of the Jewish Women's Association in Mainz.

During the First World War she worked as a Red Cross nurse . After 1938, their art and antiques shop was “ Aryanized ”; Hedwig had to leave the apartment after the death of her husband and lived in the " Judenhaus " in Taunusstrasse in Mainz. As one of a total of 1,000 Jewish people from Hesse, Hedwig Reiling was deported to the Piaski ghetto near Lublin on March 24, 1942 at the age of 62 , where she was murdered.

Anna Seghers dedicated the story “ The excursion of the dead girls ” to her mother .

Commemoration

Stumbling block for Reiling in Mainz

On August 29, 2011, a stumbling block was laid in memory of Hedwig Reiling in the old town of Mainz at Fischtorplatz 23 .

literature

Women's life in Magenza. The portraits of Jewish women from the Mainz women's calendar and texts on women's history in Jewish Mainz (= part of: Anne Frank Shoah Library . [Without number]). 3. Edition. With the collaboration of Mechthild Czarnowski. Published by the state capital Mainz, Women's Office, Mainz 2010, DNB 1058356186 .
- Reinhard Frenzel: Hedwig Reiling . In: Frauenbüro Landeshauptstadt Mainz (Hrsg.): Frauenleben in Magenza . The portraits of Jewish women from the Mainz women's calendar and texts on women's history in Jewish Mainz. 4th and completely revised edition. Mainz 2015, OCLC 908617988 , p. 26 ( mainz.de [PDF; 8.8 MB ; accessed on October 1, 2019] - Eva Weickart).
- Martina Trojanowski: Historical: Jewish Women's Association . In: Frauenbüro Landeshauptstadt Mainz (Hrsg.): Frauenleben in Magenza . The portraits of Jewish women from the Mainz women's calendar and texts on women's history in Jewish Mainz. 4th and completely revised edition. Mainz 2015, OCLC 908617988 , p. 27 , col. 2 ( mainz.de [PDF; 8.8 MB ; accessed on October 1, 2019] - Editor Eva Weickart; to Hedwig Reiling as a founding member).
Friedrich Schütz : The Seghers-Reiling family and the Jewish Mainz. In: Argonaut ship. Yearbook of the Anna Seghers Society Berlin and Mainz e. V., 2 (1993), ISSN 1430-9211 , p. 151 ff., Especially p. 157 ff.
Frank Wagner: Deportation to Piaski. The last stages of Hedwig Reiling's passion. In: Argonaut ship. 3 (1994), ISSN 1430-9211 , pp. 117-126.
Bruno Lowitsch, Roland Siegrist: “Ready to migrate”. The last way of Hedwig Reiling in Mainz on March 20, 1942. In: Mainz. Quarterly issues for culture, politics, economics, history. 10 (1990), H. 1, ISSN 0720-5945 , p. 120 ff.

Web links

Margrid Bircken: Anna Seghers' biography ( memento from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: uni-potsdam.de. July 28, 2001
Biography. In: anna-seghers.de
The persecution and robbery of the Seghers-Reiling family and their traces in literature. Historical lecture by Hans Berkessel followed by a reading from the story "The Excursion of the Dead Girls" by Anna Seghers by the Mainz state actress Gaby Reichardt on Wednesday, February 5th, 7 pm in the city council hall of Mainz. (No longer available online.) In: gedenkstaette-osthofen-rlp.de. Osthofen Concentration Camp Memorial , December 9, 2013, archived from the original on March 13, 2018 (event announcement with information also on Hedwig Reiling).; accessed on October 1, 2019

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics and deportation of the Jewish population from the German Reich, Mainz - Darmstadt to Piaski. Departure date: 24.03.42, deportees: 1000. In: statistik-des-holocaust.de, accessed on March 13, 2018 (list of 1000 deported Jewish people from Hesse).
↑ Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial , accessed on March 13, 2018.
↑ Reinhard Frenzel: Hedwig Reiling . In: Frauenbüro Landeshauptstadt Mainz (Hrsg.): Frauenleben in Magenza . The portraits of Jewish women from the Mainz women's calendar and texts on women's history in Jewish Mainz. 4th and completely revised edition. Mainz 2015, OCLC 908617988 , p. 26 , col. 2 ( mainz.de [PDF; 8.8 MB ; accessed on October 1, 2019] - Eva Weickart).
↑ Stumbling blocks as memorial stones. In: mainz1933-1945.de/stolpersteine. Association for Social History Mainz e. V., accessed on March 13, 2018 (with a list of the stumbling blocks in Mainz).

personal data
SURNAME	Reiling, Hedwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fuld, Hedwig (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Jewish woman, mother of Anna Seghers
DATE OF BIRTH	February 21, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	after March 24, 1942

[1] Statistics and deportation of the Jewish population from the German Reich, Mainz - Darmstadt to Piaski. Departure date: 24.03.42, deportees: 1000. In: statistik-des-holocaust.de, accessed on March 13, 2018 (list of 1000 deported Jewish people from Hesse).

[2] Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial , accessed on March 13, 2018.

[3] Reinhard Frenzel: Hedwig Reiling . In: Frauenbüro Landeshauptstadt Mainz (Hrsg.): Frauenleben in Magenza . The portraits of Jewish women from the Mainz women's calendar and texts on women's history in Jewish Mainz. 4th and completely revised edition. Mainz 2015, OCLC 908617988 , p. 26 , col. 2 ( mainz.de [PDF; 8.8 MB ; accessed on October 1, 2019] - Eva Weickart).

[4] Stumbling blocks as memorial stones. In: mainz1933-1945.de/stolpersteine. Association for Social History Mainz e. V., accessed on March 13, 2018 (with a list of the stumbling blocks in Mainz).