Lydia Schlosser
Lydia Schlosser (born January 6, 1897 in Schwollen , † 1988 in Ottweiler ), née Sohni, was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Lydia Sohni grew up in the Birkenfeld district as one of five children of a miller . After elementary school she worked as a housemaid and married Heinrich Schlosser from Ottweiler in 1920. Lydia Schlosser was sentenced to one month and three days in prison in the 1920s for taking part in an illegal demonstration against the abortion clause in the Criminal Code . An amnesty decree, however, ensured that she did not have to serve her sentence. In 1930 she became a member of the KPD and chairwoman of the Arbeiter-Zeitung . At the same time, she was involved in the referendum campaign in the Saar area for the status quo, as the remaining as an area under international law. She supported exiles from the German Reich .
In 1934 she was a member of the Ottweiler City Council as a candidate for successors. There she came into conflict with the German Front on several occasions , which also threatened her with death. Shortly after the Saar referendum, she fled to France with her husband and children Fritz, Dora and Erna. There she made contacts with resistance groups in Charbonnier-les-Mines and provided material support to the International Brigades . She was interned in Camp de Gurs on May 20, 1940 and released on July 11. She went back to Charbonnier, where she was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and sent to Saarbrücken. There she was tried on October 15, 1941, and she was sentenced to one year and three months in prison, which she served in Gotteszell prison in Schwäbisch Gmünd . After serving her sentence, she was taken in by relatives in Schwollen and reunited with her family.
After the war, locksmith worked as a caretaker in the Protestant school in Ottweiler. She became chairwoman again, this time for the KPS party organ Neue Zeit . This was banned on April 9, 1957.
literature
- Luitwien Bies: Lydia Schlosser . In: Luitwin Bies / Horst Bernard (ed.): Saarland women against the Nazis. Persecuted - Evicted - Expropriated . Blattlaus-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2004, ISBN 3-930771-31-4 , p. 109-114 .
Web links
- Portrait on the website of the VVN-BdA Saar
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Locksmith, Lydia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Soni, Lydia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swelling |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1988 |
| Place of death | Ottweiler |