Käthe Kirschmann

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Käthe Kirschmann , née Fey (born February 22, 1915 in Saarbrücken ; † May 11, 2002 in Düsseldorf ) was a German SPD member . Together with her husband Emil Kirschmann , she was involved in the resistance against National Socialism .

Life

Käthe Fey was born in 1915 as the daughter of a cloakroom and a sandformer . Together with her five siblings, she grew up in a social democratic milieu. While still at school she became a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ). After elementary school she began an apprenticeship as an office clerk in a Saarbrücken bookstore. In the wake of the global economic crisis , however, she was fired. Another employment relationship was terminated in 1933 because she did not take part in a rally by Adolf Hitler at the Niederwald Monument, but instead in a counter rally inNeunkirchen . The then SPD chairman Max Braun learned of this termination and hired it. It was there that she met Emil Kirschmann and Marie Juchacz , the sister of his late wife.

In the time between the announcement of the voting results and the reintegration of the Saar area into the German Reich , she worked as a courier for a Sopade advice center in Forbach , which was headed by Braun and Kirschmann. On one of her errands on May 12, 1935, she was from the Gestapo arrested Saarbrücken and Lark corridor in custody taken. She was charged with a treasonous relationship with Karl Friedrich John . At the intervention of lawyer Ernst Brand, however, she was released from prison on June 11 for lack of evidence. To avoid being arrested again, she and Kirschmann fled to Moulins-lès-Metz and then to Mulhouse . During her time in exile, she took part in the so-called "Kirschmann Group", which was in charge of a border office of the SPD.

After German troops occupied Luxembourg in World War II , the group fled together to Sauvagnon . The group tried to leave for the USA , which they managed in 1941. In a foreign country she did an apprenticeship as a nurse and worked in this profession from 1944. She also organized aid packages for Germany and France in the post-war period. On November 16, 1948, she married Emil Kirschmann in New York. After her husband's death on April 11, 1949, she returned to Germany, where she settled in Norderney and worked for the workers' welfare organization for 20 years . In 1955 she took care of Marie Juchacz, who died in January 1956.

Käthe Kirschmann later lived in Düsseldorf, where she died on May 11, 2002.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus-Michael Mallmann / Gerhard Paul : The splintered no. Saarlanders against Hitler . Dietz, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-8012-5010-5 , p. 61 ff .
  2. ↑ Klaus-Michael Mallmann / Gerhard Paul : The splintered no. Saarlanders against Hitler . 1989, p. 63 ff .
  3. ↑ Klaus-Michael Mallmann / Gerhard Paul : The splintered no. Saarlanders against Hitler . 1989, p. 65 ff .
  4. ↑ FrauenSichtenGeschichte: a project by the women's office of the state capital Saarbrücken and the women's library saar (ed.): … Groundbreaking. More women's street names for Saarbrücken! 2nd Edition. Saarbrücken September 2011, p. 21–22 ( … groundbreaking. More women's street names for Saarbrücken! ( Memento from August 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF]). ... groundbreaking. More women's street names for Saarbrücken! ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarbruecken.de
personal data
SURNAME Kirschmann, Kathe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SPD member
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 2002
Place of death Dusseldorf