Juliane Kinkel

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Juliane Kinkel (born April 17, 1892 in Sossenheim ; † August 17, 1986 ibid) was a German resistance fighter and member of the Catholic Workers Movement (KAB), a Catholic Christian in the resistance .

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Juliane Kinkel was born as the daughter of the Sossenheim municipal secretary Konrad Kinkel and granddaughter of the Sossenheim mayor Jakob Kinkel. After attending the Sossenheim elementary school, she switched to the Catholic private school Oberlyzeum Ursuline School in Frankfurt's Nordend . She passed the teachers' examination in 1912 and worked as a teacher at various middle schools from 1914 to 1932 until she retired in 1932 for health reasons.

Like her father, Kinkel was a committed member of the Catholic Workers 'Association from 1897, the forerunner of the Catholic workers' movement KAB-Sossenheim. The dissolution of the Catholic Center Party in 1933, the forced dissolution of the Catholic Workers' Association and the many attacks on the Catholic Church of St. Michael in Sossenheim shaped their general criticism of the Nazi regime. After 1933, the members of the KAB could only meet privately.

Kinkel, in August 1940 she applied to the Frankfurt School Authority as a secondary school teacher in vain for school service. In 1940 she was hired to work as an unpaid interpreter for the forced laborers of the Noll company in the Volkshaus Sossenheim and the forced laborers and prisoners of war in the local prisoner-of-war unit STALAG IX B.

She also looked after around 30 French forced laborers from the Pyrenees in a barrack owned by the ZiegeleibetriebsGmbH. Between 1940 and 1945 she campaigned for the interests of the internees and put herself in mortal danger, which is evident from letters from former French forced laborers. She was threatened and reported by the camp leader.

She secretly looked after sick slave laborers and distributed food, partly from her own food allocation. She stood up for people in housing, working conditions and emergencies after torture, and accompanied them to doctors and hospitals for medical treatment. She also supported the forced laborers as a social welfare worker with their complaints, for example to the French delegation of the German Labor Front DAF and the health commission about the catastrophic accommodation and insufficient food provided by the camp manager.

Because of her commitment, she was reported several times: to the National Socialist agencies, the DAF and the Gestapo, for example for sympathizing with foreigners and inciting them to refuse to work. She was eventually forbidden from entering the Noll camp. Nevertheless, she continued to assist the forced laborers and prisoners of war.

After the war, she was reported by the beneficiaries of the slave labor system and charged with involvement in the crimes committed. She was able to refute this with the officially certified letters and testimony of 20 former French prisoners of war and forced laborers.

Juliane Kinkel died in 1986 in her house in Sossenheim.

As a resistance fighter, she was given a listed grave at the Sossenheim cemetery. The Hessischer Rundfunk reported on her story in a broadcast by journalist Katharina Sperber on November 17, 1988.

literature

  • Barbara Bromberger, Katia Mausbach: Women and Frankfurt. Traces of forgotten history . 1987
  • Barbara Bromberger, Katia Mausbach: Workers' resistance in Frankfurt against fascism 1933-1945 .
  • Annemarie and Toni Kinkel: When Sossenheim was still a village . 1985, p. 167ff.
  • Juliane Kinkel: Life in Sossenheim a hundred years ago . Prepared by Günter Moos, 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juliane Kinkel “Life in Sossenheim a hundred years ago”, edited by Günter Moos, 2010, p. 75
  2. ↑ Chronicle of the Catholic Parish of St. Michael - Sossenheim, 2006 p. 93
  3. ^ Excerpt from the Sossenheimer Zeitung, November 22, 1913
  4. ↑ a b c d St. Michael parish, Frankfurt-Sossenheim: Juliane Kinkel, Catholic Christian in the Resistance. August 24, 2018, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Joachim Rotberg, Barbara Wieland: Forced Labor for the Church / Church among Forced Laborers . Volume 2, The Diocese of Limburg and the deployment of foreigners 1939-1945, 2014, p. 640 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Kinkel, Juliane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Sossenheim
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1986
Place of death Sossenheim