Magda Thürey

Magda Thürey , née Bär (born March 4, 1899 in Hamburg ; † July 17, 1945 there ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Magda Thürey grew up in a captain's family and spent her childhood with her sister on Grindel and in Hamburg-Harvestehude . She went to school at the "Emilie Wüstenfeld" lyceum for nine years . From 1914 to 1919 she studied at the Hohe Weide teacher training college in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel , and she criticized the authoritarian school system at the time. After completing her seminar training, she was employed as a teacher for girls in the school on Lutterothstrasse. She actively worked in the Hamburg teachers' union and joined the KPD in the early 1920s . In 1932 she was elected to the Hamburg parliament.

Magda Thürey was dismissed from school in 1933. When she married Paul Thürey in the same year , he was unemployed and could not provide for her maintenance. In Osterstrasse, she used her savings to set up a soap shop that she called Raccoon . The inconspicuous soap shop became a meeting point for the resistance, later also with the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen group and intermediate storage for pamphlets, leaflets and schedules of the resistance organization. Many illegal meetings took place here. The safe hiding place was betrayed on October 30, 1943, and Magda Thürey was arrested. The soap shop was preserved and was used as a trap by the Gestapo , leading to further arrests.

The Gestapo took Magda Thürey into " protective custody " in October 1943 and locked her in Fuhlsbüttel prison . While in detention, she was brutally treated and not given any food, despite a serious illness. Magda Thürey's health deteriorated noticeably. She also had multiple sclerosis for years . Only when she was completely immobile was she transferred to the Langenhorn Hospital (today Asklepios Klinik Nord ). From here she could be brought home by her brother, Curt Bär , after the liberation .

Ehrenfeld Geschwister-Scholl-Foundation

Emilienstraße 30

About twelve weeks after her liberation by British troops in Langenhorn Hospital, Magda Thürey died on July 17 at her brother's home as a result of 18 months in Gestapo detention.

At the funeral of Magda Thürey, Karl Meitmann (SPD) and Friedrich Dettmann (KPD) shook hands and swore: "Never again fratricidal war!"

Honors

The Thürey couple are buried in the honorary field of the Geschwister-Scholl-Stiftung in the Ohlsdorf cemetery: grid square Bn 73 No. 93 (left of the path behind the bank: first row, second stone).
In 1981, Thüreystraße in Hamburg-Niendorf was named after Magda and Paul Thürey. The DKP has named its Hamburg headquarters at Lindenallee 72 Magda-Thürey-Zentrum.
In the Emilienstraße 30 , her last house before the arrest, one was stumbling stone laid for them.

Web links

• Life path of a brave teacher
• Magda Thürey at Frauenbiografien hamburg.de
• Portrait of Magda Thürey at garten-der-frauen.de
• Streets, squares and bridges named after women in Hamburg (PDF; 1.6 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ohmoor High School
2. ↑ Helmut Schoenfeld: Must Die 1945 - Hamburg Individual Fates ; in: Ohlsdorf: Journal for Trauerkultur, Issue 89, May 2005
3. ^ Pillow stone Paul and Magda Thürey at genealogy.net
4. ↑ Celebrity Graves
5. ↑ VVN-BdA Hamburg ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 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.