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Ilse Heß (born June 22, 1900 as Ilse Pröhl in Hanover ; † September 7, 1995 in Lilienthal ) was the wife of the National Socialist politician Rudolf Heß . After the Second World War , she was also known as a book author .

Childhood and parental home

Ilse Pröhl came from a nationally conservative family. She was one of three daughters of the wealthy physician and doctor Friedrich Pröhl († March 13, 1920) from Hanover and his wife Elsa, née. Meineke. The father was killed during the Kapp putsch . The mother then married the portrait painter Carl Horn , who was the director of the art academy in Bremen . Ilse Pröhl's sisters were called Ingeborg and Irmgard, the latter married the famous heroic tenor Paul Beinert .

Marriage with Rudolf Hess

In April 1920, Pröhl, who was studying German and library sciences, met Rudolf Hess in a Munich guesthouse. She was one of the first women to study at the LMU in Munich . In 1921 she joined the NSDAP for the first time and after the ban and the new admission again in 1925 ( membership number 25.071). From the beginning she felt drawn to Rudolf Hess, but Hess was reluctant to enter into a relationship. He put her off for years and avoided intimacy. Ilse introduced Rudolf Hess to Adolf Hitler , who liked to socialize with wealthy women. Ultimately, Hitler initiated the marriage, which took place in Munich on December 20, 1927. Hitler was the best man and godfather of her only child, Wolf Rüdiger , who was born on November 18, 1937.

During the imprisonment of Hitler and Hess in the Landsberg correctional facility , Ilse, who lives in Munich, fetched her husband's handwritten manuscripts - Hitler had dictated Hess Mein Kampf while in custody - to type them on an Erika typewriter in Munich. She thus contributed to the publication of this book.

In the 1930s, the Heß family moved into a modern villa with a large garden, swimming pool and tennis facility in Munich- Harlaching in the immediate vicinity of the Isar at Harthauser Straße 48.

After May 11, 1941 (the day Rudolf Hess jumped over Scotland) Ilse Hess left Munich with her son Wolf Rüdiger to move to Hindelang . She first moved into a summer house on the so-called Bürgle in the Bad Oberdorf district . Despite her husband's flight to England, which has not yet been clarified, Ilse Hess enjoyed direct protection from Hitler, who granted her a monthly pension of 1,500 Reichsmarks . On March 20, 1945 was on the agricultural property by Ilse Hess satellite camp Bad Oberdorf the Dachau concentration camp built. The only concentration camp inmate was Friedrich (Fred) Georg Frey (* 1920 in Röt (Baiersbronn) ), who had been imprisoned as a Jehovah's Witness since 1937, first in Dachau, later in Mauthausen and then again in Dachau. His tasks included gardening and looking after the milk sheep and Icelandic ponies. The express goods dispatch to Hinterstein was done with the ponies. Frey gave no information about his treatment by Frau Hess. However, according to Ilse Hess, he slept in the house, did not have to wear prison clothes and took part in the dinner together. On April 29, 1945 his forced labor in the household of Ilse Hess ended. According to his own account, Frey ran home in May 1945. Nothing is known about his whereabouts. Legal investigations into the Bad Oberdorf subcamp were discontinued in 1973.

Life after the collapse of the Nazi state

On June 3, 1947, Ilse Hess - like all the wives of the war criminals convicted or executed during the Nuremberg Trials - was arrested and taken to the Augsburg-Göggingen internment camp . She was released on March 24, 1948 and settled in the Allgäu , where she opened a pension in 1955 .

Political attitude

Grave of Ilse and Rudolf Heß (2006)

Ilse Hess was a staunch National Socialist . She remained connected to Hitler and his views until her death and supported the Silent Aid after the war . Her book England - Nürnberg - Spandau, published in 1952 . A Fate in Letters , like her other publications, appeared in the right-wing extremist Druffel-Verlag . Since 1949, she corresponded with Winifred Wagner , who, like herself, did not deviate from her Nazi sentiments.

Works

  • A fate in letters . Druffel-Verlag , Leoni am Starnberger See 1971 (over 40 editions).
  • Answer from cell 7 . Druffel-Verlag, Leoni am Starnberger See 1967.
  • England - Nuremberg - Spandau . Druffel-Verlag, Leoni am Starnberger See 1967.
  • Prisoner of Peace - New Letters from Spandau . Druffel-Verlag, Leoni am Starnberger See 1955.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 239.
  2. ↑ In 1935, Rudolf Heß bought one of the largest properties in the Menterschwaige villa colony . He expanded the house directly on the slope to almost double the usable area. After Rudolf Hess jumped over England, Ilse Hess moved out with her son. The building was hit by bombs during World War II. After the war, it was expropriated by the American occupation forces. It later served as a youth camp for American soldier children. In 1991 the building was returned to the Free State of Bavaria. Since then, there have been two rehearsal stages for the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz . New residential buildings in Harlaching . June 15, 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 2: Early camp, Dachau, Emsland camp. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52962-3 , p. 292 f.
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pröhl, Ilse (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, wife of Rudolf Hess
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1995
Place of death Lilienthal