Ilse Schaeffer

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Ilse Schaeffer (* October 23, 1899 in Fraustadt / Silesia as Ilse Liebig; † June 30, 1972 in Potsdam ) was a German sculptor and resistance fighter .

Life

Liebig grew up in Posen and initially worked as an office clerk . In Berlin she attended the commercial college from 1919 to 1921 in order to become a certified commercial teacher. Then she began studying sculpture at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

After a brief marriage with the sculptor Eliso Garbani-Nerini , she married the sinologist Philipp Schaeffer in 1928 , who had been a member of the KPD since 1928 . Ilse also joined the KPD in the early 1930s, which is why both were arrested several times after the beginning of the Nazi dictatorship. Through her studies, Ilse had contact with the circle around Fritz Cremer , Kurt Schumacher , Ruthild Hahne and other fighters of the Red Orchestra . Together with her husband and other friends, she also helped those persecuted to go into hiding and to emigrate for racist reasons.

After this large resistance organization was discovered in autumn 1942, Ilse and Philipp Schaeffer were also arrested. In 1943 Ilse Schaeffer was sentenced to a total of 3 years in prison by the Reich Court Martial in two cases for aiding and abetting in preparation for high treason . At the end of the Second World War she was released from prison and took over the office of mayor of Zernsdorf for a while .

Then she moved to Potsdam, where she worked as a freelance sculptor.

Honors

  • At Berlin Central Station, one of the new streets on the former ULAP site is named after Ilse Schaeffer.

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SURNAME Schaeffer, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dear, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Fraustadt , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1972
Place of death Potsdam