Josefa Trumme

Maria Josefa Trumme , née Hausfeld (born September 17, 1919 in Wenstrup , † February 16, 2017 in Handorf ) was a German housewife .

Career

Josefa Hausfeld came to Handorf at the age of 20 after she married August Trumme († 1997) . She and her husband raised 15 children.

From September 1944 until the invasion of the Allied troops in April 1945, she hid the Dominican Father Laurentius Siemer in the house of her in-laws , who was wanted by the Gestapo because he was involved in the preparation of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944. A reward of 50,000 Reichsmarks was offered for his arrest .

For their selfless efforts, it was in 1993 by the President with the Order of Merit Award of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Works

Father Laurentius Siemer in hiding with us (23.9.1944 - 14.4.1945). In: Gemeindechronik Holdorf 1188–1988. Vechta 1988, pp. 617-624

literature

Josefa Trumme celebrated "90". In: Oldenburgische Volkszeitung, September 18, 2009.
Mrs. Josefa Trumme from Handorf… In: Moor- und Fehnmuseum Elisabethfehn (Ed.): Pater Laurentius M. Siemer OP Special exhibition on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death. Rhauderfehn 2006, pp. 30-37.

Individual evidence

^ Josefa Trumme: Obituary notice. In: Oldenburgische Volkszeitung . February 18, 2017, accessed March 4, 2017.
↑ Address by District Administrator Clemens August Krapp of the Vechta district during the award of the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on July 28, 1998 to Mrs. Josefa Trumme. In: Moor- und Fehnmuseum Elisabethfehn (ed.): Pater Laurentius M. Siemer OP Special exhibition on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death. Rhauderfehn 2006, p. 52 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Trumme, Josefa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hausfeld, Josefa (maiden name); Trumme, Maria Josefa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German housewife
DATE OF BIRTH	September 17, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wenstrup , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH	16th February 2017
Place of death	Handorf , Lower Saxony , Germany

[1] Josefa Trumme: Obituary notice. In: Oldenburgische Volkszeitung . February 18, 2017, accessed March 4, 2017.

[2] Address by District Administrator Clemens August Krapp of the Vechta district during the award of the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on July 28, 1998 to Mrs. Josefa Trumme. In: Moor- und Fehnmuseum Elisabethfehn (ed.): Pater Laurentius M. Siemer OP Special exhibition on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death. Rhauderfehn 2006, p. 52 f.