Lotte Branz
Lotte Branz (born August 5, 1903 in Regensburg , † July 16, 1987 in Munich ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .
Life
Lotte and her husband Gottlieb Branz belonged to the SPD . Gottlieb was arrested in June 1933 and taken to the Dachau concentration camp . After his release in October 1933, the couple got involved in the New Beginning group and took courier trips to Sopade in Czechoslovakia . From there, they smuggled SPD publications to Munich.
They also helped Jews flee. After being arrested again in January 1939, Gottlieb Branz was in Buchenwald concentration camp until April 1945 . Thereupon Lotte Branz also stopped her resistance activities.
After the war, Lotte Branz was chairwoman of the SPD's regional women’s association in Bavaria. She was also a co-founder of the Georg von Vollmar Academy , where she gave lectures on the social democratic resistance in the time of National Socialism until her death .
Honors
- Lotte-Branz-Strasse has existed in Munich's Schwabing-Freimann district since 1996.
- Lotte-Branz-Strasse has existed in Regensburg- Burgweinting-Harting since 2015.
literature
- Sabine Asgodom (Ed.): "Shut up - otherwise you come to Dachau!" Women and men from the labor movement report on resistance and persecution under National Socialism. Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-7663-0593-X .
- Georg von Vollmar Academy (ed.): From subject to citizen. The Bavarian labor movement since 1848. Exhibition catalog, Munich 2009, p. 29, (with photo by Lotte Branz)
Web links
- Lotte Branz and Gottlieb Branz in the ARD Mediathek ; accessed on January 23, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lotte Branz . Official city portal Munich
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Branz, Lotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD) and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th August 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | regensburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1987 |
| Place of death | Munich |