Hildegard Staehle

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Hildegard Staehle , née Luther ( April 20, 1894 - December 16, 1945 ) was a German social welfare worker , Christian resistance fighter against National Socialism , a special prisoner in Ravensbrück concentration camp and co-founder of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) in the Soviet occupation zone and Berlin .

Life

Hildegard Luther was trained as a social worker after completing the relevant training course. After her divorce, she married the Wehrmacht officer Wilhelm Staehle , who rejected the Nazi regime out of national-conservative sentiments. The Staehle couple belonged to the “ Church Aid Agency for Protestant Non-Aryans ” and actively helped the persecuted. Because Wilhelm Staehle had connections with the resistance group of the men of July 20, 1944 , he was arrested and murdered by an SS commando towards the end of the war . Hildegard was arrested on August 15, 1944 and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, Staehle was one of the founders of the CDU in Berlin and in the Soviet Zone. She became a member of the CDU party executive. For her party she took a seat in the main committee of the victims of fascism (OdF). At the same time she was chairman of the central anti-fascist Women's Committee and Head of Social Services in the Municipality of Greater Berlin .

Hildegard Staehle was killed in a car accident on December 16, 1945.

Honors

  • To honor the deserving couple, the western section of the Hubertusweg from Berlin-Frohnau was renamed "Staehleweg" in 1971.

estate

Part of her political legacy can be found here:

  • C Rep. 118-01 No. 39002 1945-1948; Old archive signature: C Rep. 118, No. 84; Activity of Hildegard Staehle; Contains among other things: participation in the main committee - appreciation - funeral ceremonies. Index number: 11

literature

  • Gerlind Schwöbel (ed.): Only hope kept me. Women report from the Ravensbrück concentration camp , Frankfurt 2002
  • Elke Reuter, Detlef Hansel: The short life of the VVN from 1947 to 1953: The history of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Soviet Zone and GDR. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-97-4 , p. 582

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http ://www. Resistance-christlicher-frauen.de/namen/liste.htm Retrieved July 22, 2011
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 22, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesarchiv-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Staehle, Hildegard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luther, Hildegard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Christian resistance fighter and VVN functionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1894
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1945