Lore Wolf
Eleonore "Lore" Wolf (born March 11, 1900 in Sommerhausen as Eleonore Winkler ; † August 4, 1996 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German communist , persecuted by the Nazi regime and politician.
Life
Lore Wolf was born in Sommerhausen in Lower Franconia and came to Höchst am Main at the age of six . At the age of 16 she organized herself in a union. She also belonged to the Friends of Nature and the Socialist Workers' Youth in Frankfurt.
She learned the trade of a stenographer . In 1923 he married Hans Wolf, and in 1925 a daughter was born. In the crisis year of 1929, she emigrated to the USA with her husband . But she moved to the Soviet Union in 1932 because her husband was unemployed .
During a vacation stay in Germany in 1933 she was banned from leaving the country by the Nazi government . She joined the illegal KPD and carried out anti-fascist activities for the KPD and the Red Aid, and from 1933 to 1934 produced "Red Aid" leaflets in Frankfurt.
The official website of the city of Frankfurt about the Frankfurt resistance reports on their work in the creation of illegal leaflets.
She emigrated to France via the Saar region and was arrested by the Gestapo in Paris in 1940 for treason and sentenced by the People's Court to twelve years in prison for preparing for high treason . She spent many years in solitary confinement in Ziegenhain prison and was liberated from Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp in 1945.
She returned to Frankfurt am Main, where she was the deputy head of the care center for those politically, racially and religiously persecuted by the Nazi regime and a member of the State Advisory Committee of Greater Hesse .
Afterwards she worked for several years as a volunteer in the editorial offices of the anti-fascist newspaper die tat and the Deutsche Volkszeitung. Until her retirement, she was employed by the Frankfurt am Main city administration.
She had a long friendship with Anna Seghers .
She was a member of the DKP until her death . In addition, she was a member of the Association of Germans in the Resistance, founded in 1991 , in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. V. ( DRAFD ).
Wolf was awarded the Johanna Kirchner Medal of the City of Frankfurt am Main in 1991 . Since March 2020, a memorial plaque on the house at Gerlachstrasse 24 in Frankfurt am Main (Höchst district) has been commemorating Lore Wolf.
Works
- One life is far too little. Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt 1974.
- I love life Diary sheets from the Ziegenhain prison, Weltkreisverlag, Dortmund 1983.
literature
- Hans Berkessel: Obituary for Lore Wolf. In: Argonautenschiff 6, 1997.
- Anna Seghers : Two letters to Lore Wolf 1946. In: Argonautenschiff 2, 1993.
- Ulrich Schneider: Friends for life Lore Wolf and Anna Seghers. Study Group German Resistance 1933–1945, Informations Heft 52, November 2000, 25th year.
Movies
- Participation in: The broken trace - anti-fascists in Switzerland 1933-1945 (director: Mathias Knauer )
Web links
- Literature by and about Lore Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lore Wolf reports on the beginnings of the Federal Republic on dkp-frankfurt.de
- Lore Wolf about her encounter with Johanna Kirchner in the Berlin-Moabit prison on ffmhist.de
- Biography on widerstand-portrait.de
- Wolf, Eleonore (Lore). Hessian biography. (As of March 11, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Wolf, Lore in the Frankfurt Personal Lexicon
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, lore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolf, Eleonore (real name); Winkler, Eleonore (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German participant in the Constitutional Advisory Assembly of the State of Hesse |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sommerhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1996 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |