Lina Haag

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Lina Haag (née Jäger , officially Pauline ; born January 18, 1907 in Hagkling , former municipality of Altersberg , Württemberg ; † June 18, 2012 in Munich ) was a German resistance fighter .

Life

Lina Jäger's mother worked as a maid, her father as a worker. He belonged to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and brought his daughter to the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD). She met her future husband Alfred Haag , who had also grown up in humble circumstances, around 1920 at the KJVD.

During the National Socialist era , Lina Haag was held in various prisons and concentration camps for years, for example in the first women’s concentration camp in Gotteszell in Schwäbisch Gmünd . She gave Liselotte Herrmann , who was sentenced to death, eight painkillers that she had saved for herself.

After her release she managed to get to Heinrich Himmler , the Reichsführer SS and chief of the German police, and there to campaign for the release of her husband Alfred Haag. Haag, elected in 1930 as the youngest KPD member of the Stuttgart state parliament, was incarcerated in Mauthausen concentration camp . Lina Haag was successful with it. However, her husband was sent to the Eastern Front and did not return from a Soviet POW camp until 1948.

Lina and Fred Haag brought many persecuted people under the Nazi regime with them, for example Oskar Maria Graf , who was only visiting Germany from his exile in New York.

In 2007 she received the Dachau Prize for moral courage .

Awards

  • 2007: Dachau Prize for civil courage

Movie

  • Eye to eye with Himmler. A portrait of the resistance fighter Lina Haag . Berg Film Produktions GmbH ( Andreas Lechner ), 2005. Screenplay and director: Andreas Gruber

literature

  • Lina Haag: A Handful of Dust - Resistance of a Woman 1933 to 1945 . Autobiography, first run near Nuremberg in 1947. Numerous editions and editions up to the present day, some with foreword by Oskar Maria Graf and afterword by Barbara Distel ; Translations into English (1948), Russian (1981) and Hungarian (1985).
  • Barbara Distel : In the shadow of heroes. Struggle and survival of Centa Beimler-Herker and Lina Haag. In: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (editor): Dachau and the nazi terror 1933–1945. Dachau 2002, pp. 143-178.
  • Barbara Distel: Lina and Alfred Haag and the Oberer Kuhberg concentration camp. In: Documentation Center Oberer Kuhberg Ulm (editor): Ulm. The concentration camp memorial and National Socialism. Ulm 2009, pp. 132-134.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Archives Ludwigsburg E 356 i Bü 2188 (prisoner personnel file)
  2. ↑ Markus Springer: A story of survival. ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 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. In: Sonntagsblatt , May 6, 2007, accessed on June 20, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sonntagsblatt-bayern.de
  3. ↑ Barbara Distel: On the death of the resistance fighter Lina Haag. In: sueddeutsche.de, accessed on June 20, 2012.
  4. ↑ Heiner Jestrabek : Lina Haag * January 18, 2007 . In: free thinking self-determined. 22 portraits of free spirited women . Berlin 2007, pp. 64-66.
  5. ↑ Barbara Hardinghaus: The Man of the Century ; in: Der Spiegel , issue 51/2007, December 17, 2007; P. 76; Retrieved June 20, 2012.
  6. ↑ Brochure about the awardee Lina Haag (PDF) ( Memento from March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Hague, Lina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION communist resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagkling , Altersberg
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2012
Place of death Munich