Hildegard Jacoby

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Hildegard Jacoby (born December 21, 1903 in Kassel-Rothenditmold ; † June 2, 1944 in Berlin ) was a German welfare worker of Jewish origin, employee of the Confessing Church and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Jacoby was the daughter of a Jewish father, a doctor , and a non-Jewish mother. After elementary school , she attended the lyceum and then the commercial college . She was trained as a welfare worker and worked in various government agencies in the years that followed. After power was handed over to the NSDAP , she had to give up her civil service because of her Jewish origins and worked in a patent attorney's office . Since the beginning of the Second World War she was employed in a parish office until she was active in various important administrative functions during the church struggle with the Brotherhood of the Confessing Church of Berlin-Brandenburg . There Marga Meusel took on interns or volunteers who could no longer work in the public welfare service - including Hildegard Jacoby. This meant that this difficult work became more and more difficult because T. conspiratorially , had or will take place in one way or another private home at night because the Gestapo supervised the activities of the Confessing Church.

During her church service, she was both a helper and a savior of threatened and persecuted Jews. She got in touch with the resistance group around the lawyer Franz Kaufmann and Helene Jacobs , both victims of the Nazi dictatorship. In cooperation with the “ Grüber office ” she provided hiding places, ration cards and forged identity documents for those affected . She was arrested in August 1943, tried by a special court on January 11, 1944, and sentenced to one and a half years in prison . There she fell ill with severe chronic rheumatoid arthritis . The lawyer friend Horst Holstein , the defense attorney for Martin Niemoeller , campaigned for her early release, which came about on June 2, 1944. An hour later she died of a heart attack in the apartment of the wife of the meanwhile murdered lawyer Franz Kaufmann.

literature

  • Harald Schultze , Andreas Kurschat: "Your end looks at ...". Evangelical martyrs of the 20th century. Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-374-02370-7 .
  • Werner Oehme: Martyrs of Protestant Christianity 1933–1945. Twenty-nine Life Pictures , Berlin 1979, p. 144

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Ludwig : A "Righteous Among the Nations". Margarete Meusel (1897-1953). In: Young Church . No. 3, 2007, p. 61 (PDF) .
personal data
SURNAME Jacoby, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothenditmold , today part of Kassel
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1944
Place of death Berlin