Irmgard Heydorn

Irmgard Heydorn (born March 24, 1916 in Hamburg as Irmgard Hose ; † May 17, 2017 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German socialist and resistance fighter .

Life

Irmgard Heydorn worked from 1936 to 1945 in the illegal group of the International Socialist Combat League in Hamburg. It was from this group that she met her future husband, Heinz-Joachim Heydorn . She took part in the active resistance against National Socialism by distributing illegal documents printed abroad and hiding a prisoner who had fled in 1943, who was later caught and executed.

After the war, she was one of the founders of the Socialist German Student Union SDS Hamburg in 1946 and joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1946 to 1954 she worked for the publishing houses for public life and the European publishing house . At the same time she began studying economics. In 1951 she married Heinz-Joachim Heydorn. Ten years later, in 1961, she was excluded from the SPD because of membership in the support group for the SDS. In the following time she took part in the Easter March and in the fight- against -atomic death demonstrations. She got involved in community college work. From 1973 to 1990 she worked for Amnesty International . For more than 25 years she reported regularly as a contemporary witness (together with Trude Simonsohn ) at schools and in associations and institutions about the time in the “ Third Reich ”.

Irmgard Heydorn was the editor of Heinz-Joachim Heydorn's works , which were published in nine volumes from 1994 to 1999 by Topos Verlag in Vaduz (Liechtenstein) and from 2004 to 2006 in a study edition by Büchse der Pandora in Wetzlar.

The personal and political biographies of Irmgard Heydorn and her husband Heinz-Joachim as well as the private and scientific relationships between the two of them and Heinz-Joachim Heydorn's pupil Gernot Koneffke were literarily processed by Jan Koneffke in his novel Ein Sonntagskind .

Awards

In 1991, she was from the city of Frankfurt am Main with Johanna-Kirchner Medal awarded
On December 1, 2007 Heydorn was awarded the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal .

Works

with Joachim Stollberg: Heinz-Joachim Heydorn. 1916-1974. Life and work. Texts and materials for the exhibition in the City and University Library Frankfurt am Main, November 11 to December 27, 1999. [Accompanying booklet], City and University Library, Frankfurt am Main 1999
with Kurt Groenewold , Klaus Körner and Sabine Groenewold: With license. History of the European Publishing House. 1946-1996. European publishing company, Hamburg 1996
as ed. with Brigitte Schmidt: Traditio lampadis. Wrest the reconciling from the destructive. Festival for Gernot Koneffke. Topos-Verlag, Vaduz, Liechtenstein 1989
as editor: Heinz-Joachim Heydorn: Werke. With an introduction by Gernot Koneffke . Pandora's box, Wetzlar
as editor: Heinz-Joachim Heydorn: Werke. Topos-Verlag, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Web links

Literature by and about Irmgard Heydorn in the catalog of the German National Library

Information on Irmgard Heydorn. (No longer available online.) BAM portal, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 21, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / swb.bsz-bw.de

Gisela Kirschstein: Honor: “You could say no to the Nazis” . Die Welt , November 30, 2007 (report on the presentation of the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal).

Irmgard Heydorn: Sabotage actions by the International Socialist Combat League . paedagogikundns.wordpress.com, January 4, 2012 (3:43 minutes; mp4; 40.8 MB)

Adrian Oeser: An exception. Survival friendship resistance. Irmgard Heydorn and Trude Simonsohn in portrait. 2006–2014 (information about the film for teachers)

"An exception. To survive. Friendship. Resistance. Irmgard Heydorn and Trude Simonsohn in portrait. ” Website for the film

Individual evidence

^ Irmgard Heydorn: Obituary notice . trauer-rheinmain.de, accessed on May 20, 2017.
^ Willy Albrecht: The Socialist German Student Union (SDS): from the party-conform student association to the representative of the new left . Dietz successor, 1994, ISBN 978-3-8012-4053-0 .
↑ Madeleine Reckmann: Defending values in the Basic Law: Eleven people counteract. Frankfurter Rundschau , October 20, 2008, archived from the original on November 26, 2016 ; accessed on May 21, 2017 .
↑ Jan Koneffke: Ein Sonntagskind , Galiani, Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86971-107-2 , & review of the “Sonntagskind” on Deutschlandfunk
↑ Prime Minister announces winners of the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal 2007. Hessian State Chancellery , November 7, 2007, archived from the original on September 15, 2012 ; accessed on May 21, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Heydorn, Irmgard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hose, Irmgard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German socialist, resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	17th May 2017
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Irmgard Heydorn: Obituary notice . trauer-rheinmain.de, accessed on May 20, 2017.

[2] Willy Albrecht: The Socialist German Student Union (SDS): from the party-conform student association to the representative of the new left . Dietz successor, 1994, ISBN 978-3-8012-4053-0 .

[3] Madeleine Reckmann: Defending values in the Basic Law: Eleven people counteract. Frankfurter Rundschau , October 20, 2008, archived from the original on November 26, 2016 ; accessed on May 21, 2017 .

[4] Jan Koneffke: Ein Sonntagskind , Galiani, Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86971-107-2 , & review of the “Sonntagskind” on Deutschlandfunk

[5] Prime Minister announces winners of the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal 2007. Hessian State Chancellery , November 7, 2007, archived from the original on September 15, 2012 ; accessed on May 21, 2017 .