Irene Wosikowski

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Irene Wosikowski (born February 9, 1910 in Danzig ; † October 27, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism in the Resistance .

Life

Ehrenhain : 2nd row left, 2nd pillow stone:
Irene Wosikowski
Ehrenfeld : on the far left across the path: pillow stones Wosikowski

Irene Wosikowski grew up in a social democratic home and made contact with the Marxist youth movement at an early age . She was the daughter of Hamburg parliamentarian Alice Wosikowski (1886–1949). After attending commercial school , she worked as a stenographer . In 1924 she joined the KJVD . Since 1930 she lived in Berlin, where she became a member of the KPD . In 1933 she was delegated to the Comintern's International Lenin School for a two-year course . After graduation, she was commissioned to go to Paris . There she worked in the publishing house of the Deutsche Volks-Zeitung until she was interned in the Gurs camp . In June 1940 she was able to flee with Luise Kraushaar and Thea Saefkow . When she got off the train after escaping in Marseille, she was arrested by French gendarmes and held for several months. After her release, she and other German anti-fascists around Lex Ende organized aid for prisoners of the Vichy regime , including many former Spain fighters .

In Marseille , Irene Wosikowski, with false IDs as Paulette Monier and Marie-Louise Durand, joined the French resistance movement and, after the occupation of the southern part of France, took on the dangerous task of holding talks with German soldiers in order to give them food for thought To initiate the purpose of genocide. In July 1943 she came across a marine soldier who was an informer for the Gestapo , and she was arrested on July 26th. Despite intense torture by the Gestapo, she remained steadfast and did not reveal the names of her comrades-in-arms. In doing so, she not only saved her German comrades, but also the lives of many French, Italian and Polish resistance fighters with whom she had worked. The torture in the Marseille Gestapo headquarters in Paradiesgasse was particularly inhumane . After a while, she was transported to Paris, where she was tortured again and asked about her contacts. After Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel transferred, she was again tortured. The torture continued until the trial on September 13, 1944 before the People's Court in Berlin in the Barnimstrasse women's prison . The Freisler court sentenced her to death. The sentence was carried out on October 27, 1944 in the Plötzensee execution site. The judgment has been overturned by Sections 1 and 2 of the Law on the Repeal of National Socialist Judgments in Criminal Justice of August 25, 1998.

At the Ohlsdorf cemetery in the honor grove of Hamburg resistance fighters , Irene Wosikowski is commemorated with a pillow stone, grid square L 5, and in the field of honor of the Geschwister-Scholl Foundation , her name can be found on the joint grave of her mother Alice Wosikowski, grid square Bn 73, No. 93 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pillow stones Wosikowski at genealogy.net
personal data
SURNAME Wosikowski, Irene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Durand, Marie-Louise; Monier, Paulette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1944
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee