Hermione King

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Hermine König (born April 16, 1893 in Unteröwisheim ; died March 27, 1942 in Ravensbrück concentration camp ) was a German Jehovah's Witness and was murdered by the National Socialists .

Life

Hermine König worked as a representative for a corset factory . She was a staunch Jehovah's Witness and a naturopath . Before the Nazi era, she was the head of a so-called Parapack Institute. Even during the Nazi era, the mother of two adult children remained true to her faith. After the start of the persecution on the basis of the presidential decree for the protection of the people and the state (the so-called “Reichstag Fire Decree ”), she was arrested for the first time on August 10, 1935. She was accused of specifically recruiting people as part of her agency work. Presumably she was denounced. She was sentenced to six weeks in prison based on the charges.

A second arrest took place on August 3, 1937 when she refused to attend air raid protection courses. She was sentenced to 10 days in prison, but then taken into protective custody and placed in Moringen concentration camp . After her release, she was tried again on January 21, 1938 in the Mannheim Special Court . This time she was accused of having made her apartment available for meetings of the witnesses and of distributing documents. She was sentenced to 14 months in prison, which she initially served in the Gotteszell Women's Prison. This was followed by further sentences and detention in protective custody. She was released in 1942 because of serious illness, but arrested again a short time later and taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp , where she was murdered on March 27, 1942.

literature

  • Adalbert Metzinger : People in Resistance - Central Baden 1933–1943 (=  special publication of the Rastatt district archive, volume 13 ). regional culture publishing house, Rastatt 2017, ISBN 978-3-89735-978-9 , p. 85-86 .
  • Hans Hesse: The women's concentration camp Moringen 1933-1938 . Hürth 2002, ISBN 3-8311-0633-9 , pp. 122-125 .
  • Hubert Roser: Resistance as a Confession: The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazi Regime in Baden and Württemberg . UVK Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1999, ISBN 978-3-87940-630-2 , p. 150, 160 f .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Gebhard: parapack. Retrieved February 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME King, Hermione
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jehovah's Witness and victim of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Unteröwisheim
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1942
Place of death Ravensbrück concentration camp