Lenchen Weber

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Magdalena Weber (called Lenchen) (born January 21, 1908 in Merzig ; † spring 1945 in Ravensbrück ; born Magdalena Berty) was a social democratic politician in Saarland .

Life

She was born as a child of Peter and Margarethe Berthy in Merzig, Saarland. After the death of their parents, Lenchen and her brother grew up in Merzig- Besseringen under the care of their uncle Mathias Bohr . In Sulzbach she met her future husband Karl Weber. She joined the local SPD local association and was involved in the workers ' welfare and the workers' Samaritan association , through which she was trained as a medic. Together with Richard Kirn she was on the board of the "agitation district Sulzbach" of the social democracy and a member of the local board of the Sulzbacher social democracy and also active in the workers welfare and in the workers' Samaritan union.

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " in January 1933, she took part in the "Antifascists' march" in Sulzbach on August 26, 1934, with tens of thousands from all over Saarland for maintaining the status quo and thus against the accession of the Saar area to the National Socialist German Reich , demonstrated. After the defeat in the Saarland home to the Reich vote in 1935, she and her husband had to leave Saarland and fled to Clermont-Ferrand, France .

In 1936 she emigrated to Spain to support the international brigades in the Spanish civil war . During this time she worked as an X-ray nurse in Albacete, Spain . After General Franco's victory over the Republicans at the end of March 1939, she returned to France .

In 1941 she was arrested in Montauban , extradited to the Gestapo and interned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp , where she worked in the epidemic block, where survivors say she bravely stood up for her fellow prisoners and died in the spring of 1945.

Lenchen-Weber-Straße in Merzig was named after her.

literature

  • Luitwin Bies, Horst Bernard (ed.): Saarland women against the Nazis. Persecuted - expelled - murdered. Blattlaus-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2004, ISBN 3-930771-31-4 .
  • Mali Fritz: Vinegar against thirst: 565 days in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1986.
  • Max Glandien: An unusual woman and social democrat: Magdalena Weber. 1995.
  • Max Hewer: From the Saar to the Ebro. Saarland as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939. 2nd, corrected edition, Blattlausverlag, Saarbrücken 2016, ISBN 978-3-945996-08-9 .
  • Karlheinz Pech : On the side of the Resistance: On the struggle of the Free Germany Movement for the West in France (1943–1945). Military Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1974, pp. 352f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who was Lenchen Weber ( Memento from January 23, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) ver.di event on the life of a Sulzbach resistance fighter
  2. ↑ Sulzbach Hospital Conversation: Lecture about a resistance fighter against the Nazis  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / Gesundheit-soziales.verdi.de  
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Lenchen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berty, Magdalena (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), victim of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Merzig
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Ravensbrück