Ignes Ponto

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Ignes Ponto (born July 10, 1929 on Gut Kreisau as Ignes von Hülsen ) is the widow of the banker Jürgen Ponto, who was murdered by terrorists of the Red Army Faction .

Career

Ignes von Hülsen was born as the daughter of the lawyer Hans-Karl von Hülsen (1899–1943) and Editha von Schierstädt (1905–1943) on the Silesian estate Kreisau . Her father was a legal advisor to the general administration and court chamber of the former ruling Prussian royal family. In an air raid on Berlin in November 1943, she and her four younger siblings lost both parents. After the end of the war she studied piano and met the future banker Jürgen Ponto (1923–1977), whom she married in 1950, as a student. The marriage gave birth to a son and a daughter, the opera singer and author Corinna Ponto (* 1957).

On July 30, 1977, she witnessed the murder of her husband by three members of the Red Army faction in her house in Oberursel. She described the act in an autobiography published in 1991 and in the book Patentöchter: Im Schatten der RAF - a dialogue by Julia Albrecht and Corinna Ponto (2011).

After her husband was murdered, she founded the Jürgen Ponto Foundation to promote young artists. In 1988 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, for founding and accompanying the “ Federal Meeting for Schools Making Music ” . In 2008 she returned her award in protest against the feature film Der Baader Meinhof Complex . With the factually incorrectly reproduced murder of her husband and the overall portrayal of the RAF criminals in this film, which is also financially supported by the state, according to her daughter Corinna, “a new level of public humiliation” has been reached.

Ignes Ponto is a niece of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke , who founded the Kreisau Circle . Together with other family members, she got involved after the peaceful revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe for the renovation of the Kreisau estate, on which the Kreisau International Youth Meeting Center has been established since 1998 .

Fonts

  • They came with roses in hand ...: life cuts. Kranich-Verlag, Zollikon 1991.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Freya v. Moltke Foundation for the new Kreisau. Rotary Club Gifhorn-Wolfsburg, November 27, 2009, accessed April 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ponto, Ignes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pods, Ignes von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder, wife of the banker Jürgen Ponto
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Kreisau