Kathe Tucholla
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Käthe Tucholla (born January 10, 1910 in Berlin ; † September 28, 1943 Berlin-Plötzensee ), née Scheffler, was a German anti-fascist and resistance fighter who, like her husband, KPD functionary Felix Tucholla (* May 17, 1899; † September 8, 1943; Schlosser) was hanged in Berlin-Plötzensee prison .
Life
After attending school, Tucholla worked as a secretary, in her free time she played hockey for the Sparta Lichtenberg club , which was part of the German workers' sports movement and to which Erwin Nöldner , Hans Zoschke and Werner Seelenbinder also belonged. There she met the soccer player Felix Tucholla, her future husband. Felix Tucholla was active in the Communist Party of Germany, he introduced Käthe to political engagement. Both became members of the " Combat Association for Red Sports Unit ".
When the National Socialists came to power in Germany, Käthe and Felix Tucholla and the anti-fascist resistance group around Robert Uhrig took part in the dissemination of illegal anti-fascist literature and the procurement of quarters for persecuted anti-fascists. Käthe Tucholla was also a courier driver in other German cities. In addition, both of them supported the Soviet agent Erwin Panndorf , who had parachuted over East Prussia in May 1942.
On July 25, 1942, Käthe Tucholla was arrested by the Gestapo in her apartment at Kaskelstrasse 41 , and on July 28, Felix Tucholla was also arrested. Both were sentenced to death by the People's Court on August 17, 1943, along with Kurt Bietzke , Richard Hinkelmann and Rudolf Scheffel . The sentence was carried out on September 28 and 8, 1943, in Berlin-Plötzensee prison .
Honors
- In 1953, the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters had a memorial plaque installed on the Tuchollas' house at 41 Kaskelstrasse in Berlin-Rummelsburg . The panel was unscrewed in 2006 and handed over to the Lichtenberg Local History Museum in Stadthausstrasse, and a copy was attached to the house. For this purpose, a memorial stele for the Tuchollas was inaugurated in front of the building on September 28, 2013 .
- The former Viktoriaplatz in Berlin's Kaskelkiez was given the name " Tuchollaplatz " in 1951 .
- In September 1977, the then auxiliary school in Nöldnerstraße was given the name "Käthe und Felix Tucholla", and the district office put a memorial stone in the schoolyard.
- In Berlin-Niederschöneweide , Bruno-Bürgel-Weg, there is a memorial wall made of clinker bricks and copper panels.
- The Käthe-Tucholla-Stadion is located in Berlin-Niederschöneweide and is home to SSV Köpenick-Oberspree .
- The GDR dedicated a special postage stamp to Käthe Tucholla.
literature
- Hans-Joachim Fieber (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Volume VIII. Trafo-Verlag: Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89626-358-7 , page 72
- Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The “other” capital of the Reich. Resistance from the labor movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 . Lukas-Verlag: Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1
Web links
- Käthe Tucholla in the Lichtenberg Museum
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Biography of Tucholla on the website of the Museum Lichtenberg
- ↑ Commemoration of the Tuchollas , In: Berliner Woche , Lichtenberg-Nordwest edition, October 2, 2013, page 2
- ↑ BA Treptow-Köpenick, "Art in Public Space" ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 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. (PDF; 133 kB)
- ↑ Homepage of the sports club
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tucholla, Kathe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scheffler, Käte (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1943 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Plötzensee |