Lucie Suhling
Lucie Suhling (born June 20, 1905 as Lucie Wilken in Bochum , † October 28, 1981 in Hamburg ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Live and act
Lucie Suhling grew up with ten siblings in a very religious family in Bochum. Her parents ran a wool and white goods shop there. After elementary school, she completed a two-year commercial apprenticeship from 1919 to 1921. After working in various cities, she returned to Bochum in 1923 and experienced the occupation of the Ruhr and inflation . She too became unemployed. In 1926 she became a member of the Communist Youth , in 1928 a member of the KPD and got a job with the International Workers Aid (IAH). During a party operation in East Prussia in the spring of 1929 , she met her husband, the Hamburg locksmith Carl Suhling. He was also a member of the KPD. The two married in April 1932 and moved to Hamburg-Langenhorn to live with the husband's parents at 7 Wattkorn Street . Lucie found a job as an office worker at the KPD newspaper, the Hamburger Volkszeitung (HVZ). After the National Socialists came to power , they continued their illegal work. On October 1, 1934 Lucie was arrested and in concentration camps Fuhlsbüttel in protective custody taken. After four months, Lucie was transferred to the remand prison and sentenced in June 1935 by the Hamburg Higher Regional Court with ten other party members from Langenhorn for preparation for high treason. She received two years in prison and served her sentence in the Lübeck-Lauerhof women's prison . Her husband was also imprisoned until 1937. On New Year's Eve, 1938, they were both arrested again at short notice.
In the spring of 1943 Carl Suhrling was called up to a parole battalion 999 and did not return from this mission.
After 1945, Lucie Suhling became active in the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - the Association of Antifascists . In the 1970s she reported as a contemporary witness in schools. She was a member of the DKP .
A stumbling block for Carl Suhling was laid at Wattkorn 7 .
Honors
- In 1985 a street in Hamburg-Neuallermöhe was named after her, the Lucie-Suhling-Weg .
- On the field of honor of the Geschwister-Scholl-Stiftung , Friedhof Ohlsdorf , there is a pillow stone that reminds of Carl and Lucie Suhling.
literature
- Lucie Suhling: The Unknown Resistance , Willi-Bredel-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.), Amigos Verlag, Kiel 1998, ISBN 3-931903-13-3
- Rita Bake : Ein Gedächtnis der Stadt , Vol. 2, Women's biographies from A – Z , State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2015, p. 288 ( digitized version )
- Ruth Sanio-Metafides: Lucie Suhling - Resistance at the grassroots level , ver.di Working Group AntiRassism, Hamburg 2017
- Ursula Suhling: 999 criminal soldiers - deported from the Hanover train station . Hamburg anti-fascists in Wehrmacht uniform, Willi-Bredel-Gesellschaft (ed.), VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2014, 80 p., Ill., ISBN 978-3-89965-613-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lucie Suhling: The Unknown Resistance , Amigos Verlag, Kiel 1998, ISBN 3-931903-13-3
- ↑ Ruth Sanio-Metafides: Lucie Suhling - Resistance at the Base, ver.di Working Group AntiRassism, Hamburg 2017
- ↑ Carl Suhling - An indomitable resistance fighter
- ↑ Photo from the pillow stone by Carl and Lucie Suhling on genealogy.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Suhling, Lucie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilken, Lucie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bochum |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1981 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |