Krista Lavíčková

Krista Lavíčková née Hatschek (born December 15, 1917 in Mährisch Ostrau ; † August 11, 1944 in Plötzensee prison , Berlin) was a Czech secretary and resistance fighter against National Socialism . She was executed as a member of the European Union resistance group .

Life and activity

Lavíčková was born as the daughter of the lawyer Paul Hatschek . After visiting a secondary school, which in 1937 with the Graduate left, she earned her living as a bilingual secretary. She initially worked for five years from 1937 to 1942 as the personal secretary of the district economic consultant Otto Essler in Prague , then until her arrest for two years as a secretary at the Prague textile company Günter Redlich. She was married to Jan (Honza) Lavíčka. ,

In 1943 Lavíčková took part in the founding of the European Union resistance group, which was directed against Nazi rule and to which her father and stepmother Elli Hatschek belonged. Their work in the group consisted in particular of collecting important war messages and secret documents and forwarding them to the Soviet Union via agents.

In the course of the destruction of the "European Union" Lavíčková was arrested on September 3, 1943 (according to other sources in November 1943). Together with her father, she was charged with preparing for high treason before the 1st Senate of the People's Court in Berlin, chaired by Roland Freisler . Both were found guilty in a meeting on March 27, 1944 and sentenced to death as "Bolshevik war spies". Her stepmother was sentenced to death in a later trial. Lavičková was, after temporary detention in the women's prison Barnimstraße in Berlin, in the criminal prison Berlin-Plötzensee with the guillotine executed.

literature

• Simone Hannemann: Robert Havemann and the "European Union" resistance group. A presentation of the events and their interpretation after 1945. A study , Robert Havemann Society, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-9804920-5-2 (= Robert Havemann Archive (Berlin): series of the Robert Havemann Archive , volume 6).