Käthe Tennigkeit
Käthe Tennigkeit née Schlichting (born April 2, 1903 in Hamburg ; † April 20, 1944 in the Fuhlsbüttel police prison in Hamburg) was a German sports teacher and women's politician , social democratic resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism .
Life
Käthe Schlichting came from a social democratic family. After attending elementary school, she learned a commercial profession and worked as an office clerk . She has been a union member since the 1920s . At the same time she was active in the social democratic workers gymnastics and sports federation . She became an employee of the transport workers' union and had her job in the Hamburg union building . There she also volunteered as a gymnastics teacher for the women's group, the consumer, construction and savings association “Production” . She also organized women's political work for the bakers' union . She later worked for the metalworkers' union. It was there that she met her future husband Richard Tennigkeit , whom she married in 1933.
He was an active member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD), was a member of the metalworkers' union and chairman for the shipyard apprentices in his company . Since 1926 he was a community representative with the mandate of the KPD in Berne . Together they joined the resistance group “ Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen ” after the beginning of World War II and supported persecuted communists who had to hide from the Gestapo and live illegally . So temporarily lived Gustav Bruhn hidden in the family Tennigkeit.
After the Gestapo became aware of the activities, the couple were arrested in February 1944. Käthe Tennigkeit was transferred to the Fuhlsbüttel Gestapo prison, while her husband Richard was deported to Neuengamme concentration camp . Käthe Tennigkeit was subjected to dire detention conditions because she was supposed to reveal the whereabouts of her comrade Max Heyckendorf during interrogation . She died of torture in her cell in Fuhlsbüttel on April 20, 1944, while husband Richard Tennigkeit died of typhus in Neuengamme concentration camp .
Honors
- At the Ohlsdorf cemetery in the women's garden , a “spiral of memory” was erected in 2001 as a memorial for women whose graves no longer exist. Käthe Tennigkeit is one of them.
- Since 1985 the Tennigkeitweg in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel has been a reminder of the resistance of the married couple Käthe and Richard Tennigkeit.
- In her memory, the action artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in front of her last address at Moschlauer Kamp 24 in the garden city of Berne in Farmsen-Berne .
literature
- Jürgen Mirow : Poppenbüttel. Portrait of a district
Web links
- Biogram of Käthe Tennigkeit (PDF; 2.7 MB) Retrieved September 9, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Spiral of Memory: Short biography , accessed on September 14, 2011.
- ^ Jürgen Mirow: Poppenbüttel: Portrait of a district , accessed on September 9, 2011.
- ↑ Rita Bake: Who is behind this? Streets, squares and bridges named after women in Hamburg ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.7 MB), accessed on September 9, 2011
- ↑ Stolpersteine in Hamburg , accessed on September 14, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tennigkeit, Kathe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schlichting, Käthe (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social democrat and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1944 |
| Place of death | Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp in Hamburg |