Jutta from Biel

Jutta Mary Baroness von Biel (born September 21, 1909 in Weitendorf (near Brüel) , Wismar district, Mecklenburg; † December 27, 1965 in Munich ) was a German writer and news agent.

Life and activity

Biel was the fourth of five children of the landowner and world traveler Karl Joseph von Biel (1873–1944) and his wife Anna (1874–1952), née. v. Plessen. She went to school in Schwerin , the monastery in Potsdam, Berlin and Munich . She did not graduate from high school due to a glandular disease. Instead, she spent the time she was due to graduate, traveling with her mother for a while to maintain her health.

After her recovery, Biel took acting lessons, and she soon developed a keen interest in the new medium of film, especially in the technical and creative component of film production. Accordingly, she completed an internship at the "Aktiengesellschaft für Film-Fabrikation" (Afifa). She then got a position in the press department of UFA in Berlin. She also wrote for magazines such as the Filmcourier .

In 1933, Biel received the offer to take on the post of assistant director at Universal-Film, but this did not materialize because the key men in the company who had promised her this position moved to Paris as a result of the takeover of government by the National Socialists she had no close relationship with the new management. Biel's attempts to get into film production by writing drafts for films in the following years were unsuccessful.

Parallel to her hapless career in the film industry, Biel began to pursue a secondary career in 1933, working in the intelligence service: after joining the NSDAP on September 1, 1932 (membership number 1.313.419), she became an agent in 1933 recruited by the security service of the SS (SD). On behalf of Hermann Behrends , the head of the SD Upper Section East, Biel had been spying on social circles in Berlin since the spring of 1934, to which she had access due to her origin. The people about whom she collected information and passed it on to the SD included the actress Brigitte Helm and the diplomat Wilhelm Solf . At the end of June 1934, Biel informed the Berlin SD of the imminent escape abroad of the writer Edgar Jung , who had been targeted by the regime as the ghostwriter of the regime-critical Marburg speech by Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen. He had told her confidentially about his escape plans. Jung was arrested on June 25, 1934 and shot on the night of June 30 to July 1, 1934 in a forest near Oranienburg.

Because of her job, Biel became a member of the Reich Association of German Writers (Fachschaft Narrators) in 1936 , later the Reich Literature Chamber , from which she left in 1940 after she had been largely inactive from 1938 to 1940 due to a gall disease. During the Second World War , Biel worked for the Wehrmacht .

After the Second World War, Biel initially lived in the Dachau government transit camp. From there she moved to Dachau on February 18, 1952, where she first lived in Hochstrasse 19 and from June 15, 1957 in the Würmmühle 4 residential complex (which had been called Herbersthausener Strasse 11 since June 28, 1962).

literature

• Heinrich Orb: National Socialism. 13 years of power frenzy , Zurich 1945.
• Rönn von Uexküll: Our man in Berlin. The activities of the German and Swiss secret services, 1933–1945 , 1976.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register of the city of Munich for the year 1965: death register number 4194/1965.