Julie Majer

Julie Majer (* 1883 ; † 1963 in Herrenberg ) was a German anti-fascist resistance fighter .

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Julie Majer emigrated to British India at a young age , where she worked as a directrice from 1910. During the First World War she was expelled from the British as a German in 1914. She took this as an opportunity to catch up on her school leaving examination and went to a Tübingen school from 1915 to 1917.

In 1917 she began studying medicine here and in 1919 passed the Physikum. Her mother's illness forced her to work before the end of her studies. Like so many other women of her time, the courageous Julie Majer was initially unable to graduate. The death of the father and the lack of financial security thwarted the desired medical training for the pastor's daughter.

From 1921 she worked, among other things, as a specialist teacher for handicraft at the Tübingen women's labor school. In 1928 she became a member of the Red Aid Germany , a welfare organization of the KPD . She campaigned for a progressive educational policy in the interest group of oppositional teachers .

In 1934 she hid a Stuttgart communist persecuted by the Gestapo for several weeks in her Tübingen apartment on Waldhäuser Strasse . Three years later, he was arrested while trying to escape and, under torture, revealed Julie Majer's name. She was then briefly arrested. She was banned from working as a teacher and now worked as a linen cutter. In 1963 she died in a Herrenberg retirement home.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Projects - University City of Tübingen. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .