Hildegard Jadamowitz

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Hildegard Jadamowitz also known as Hilde Jadamowitz (born February 12, 1916 in Berlin - Neukölln ; † August 18, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Hildegard Jadamowitz and her sister Beatrice, who was four years her senior, grew up with their Jewish grandmother. Her parents separated after she was born, and her mother died shortly afterwards. After graduating from a Neukölln school, today's Rütli school , in 1929, in which she skipped three school classes, she was unemployed for a long time. In 1931, when she was fifteen, she joined the Communist Youth Association .

After the death of her grandmother, she worked as a factory worker and saleswoman from 1933. She attended evening classes in order to be trained as an office assistant. Also from 1933 she was a member of the KPD operating cell at Lorenz AG in Tempelhof . From 1935 she worked in the illegal " International Workers Aid " in Berlin. There she met her future fiancé Werner Steinbrink . Together with her sister Beatrice, she took part in leaflet campaigns by the resistance group around Joachim Franke . In spring 1936 she was suspected of preparation for high treason arrested , but had to lack of evidence after nine months in detention be acquitted.

After her release, she worked as a doctor's assistant and switched to a practice for radiology and radiation medicine in Tegel as an assistant . There she prepared herself largely self-taught for the exam to become an X-ray assistant . She used her job to help the politically persecuted , provided them with money, food and medicine, and participated in acts of sabotage .

Through her fiancé Werner Steinbrink, she got in contact with other resistance groups, in particular with those around Robert Uhrig and Herbert Baum . On 18 May 1942 she was arson attack on the anti- Soviet propaganda exhibition " The Soviet Paradise " in Berlin's Lustgarten involved. On May 22, 1942, she was arrested by the Gestapo and on July 16, along with several other members of Herbert Baum 's group, she was sentenced to death by beheading the People's Court for preparation for high treason . At 5.15 a.m. on the morning of August 18, 1942 - 12 minutes after her fiancé - she was executed in the Berlin-Plötzensee prison.

Honors

A street in Berlin-Friedrichshain has been named after Hildegard Jadamowitz since 1957 . In addition, memorial plaques at the Berlin Lustgarten, at the Rütli School in Neukölln and the memorial stone in the Jewish cemetery in Weißensee remind of them.

In the memorial of the socialists , their name is written on the large porphyry plaque.

Memorial stones

The Berlin memorial stone in the Lustgarten

Today two memorial stones in Berlin dedicated to the Baum group also remember Hildegard Jadamowitz by name.

  1. Memorial plaque in Berlin at the Weissensee Jewish Cemetery (entrance: Markus-Reich-Platz)
  2. This memorial stone, designed by the sculptor Jürgen Raue, was erected in 1981 on behalf of the magistrate of East Berlin without any further information about the resistance action in the Lustgarten

literature

  • Hanna Elling: Women in the German Resistance 1933–1945. Röderberg Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-87682-024-3 , pp. 110-113.
  • Regina Scheer : In the shadow of the stars. A Jewish resistance group. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-351-02581-5 .
  • Horst-Peter Wolff: Jadamowitz, Hilde. In: Horst-Peter Wolff (Ed.): Lexicon for care history. “Who was who in nursing history.” Urban & Fischer, 2001, ISBN 3-437-26670-5 , pp. 109–110.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page 137 at Margot Pikarski: Youth in Berlin's resistance. Herbert Baum and comrade in arms. Military Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1978,
  2. ^ Resistance group around Herbert Baum, "Memorial plaque in Berlin at the Jewish cemetery in Weißensee (entrance: Markus-Reich-Platz)"
  3. ^ Resistance group around Herbert Baum. "This memorial stone designed by the sculptor Jürgen Raue was erected in 1981 on behalf of the magistrate of Berlin (East) without any further information about the resistance action in the Lustgarten"
personal data
SURNAME Jadamowitz, Hildegard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jadamowitz, Hilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin - Neukölln
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1942
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee