Grete Hoell

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Grete Hoell in the back right as a young woman surrounded by her siblings, around 1930/31

Grete Hoell (also called Margarete Hoell or Margarete Nagel , born October 18, 1909 in Hanover ; † July 15, 1986 there ) was a German communist resistance fighter .

Life

Grete Hoell (far left as a little girl) and siblings in front of the Fritz Baumgarten bakery and confectionery in Herrenhäuser Strasse 48 (today: Stöckener Strasse 21 ), around 1912

Grete Hoell was the third child of the master baker Fritz Baumgarten. After attending elementary school until 1925, she went to business school for a year. She came to the KPD in 1929 through her husband Theodor Nagel . In 1931 she was divorced. In 1931 she met Kurt Willkomm , who was then the political editor of the Neue Arbeiter Zeitung and to whom she became engaged in 1932. Their daughter was born in January 1933. Willkomm was arrested on November 5, 1933 and died eleven days later in the Hanover Gestapo headquarters as a result of brutal torture .

Grete Hoell was arrested on March 27, 1934: It was only after almost a year that the Hamm Higher Regional Court sentenced her - along with 23 other defendants - to imprisonment, among other things for producing and distributing illegal publications.

In March 1938, Hoell married the toolmaker Emil Hoell († November 14, 1964), who had previously been imprisoned for similar reasons. He was arrested for the first time in 1933 for communist party work and again after July 20, 1944 ( Operation Walküre ).

After 1945 Hoell was particularly active in the unification of those persecuted by the Nazi regime . As a contemporary witness, she attended schools. In 1982/83 she co-edited the five-volume series Hannoversche Women against Fascism .

Honors

Grete Hoell in the inscription on the memorial court prison Hanover next to the pavilion

On 8 May 1989 the site was the former court prison in Hannover , the memorial court prison revealed that contains the name Grete Hoell as part of the commemorative inscription. The memorial commemorates those who were persecuted there by the Nazi regime.

literature

  • Experiences and experiences in the Nazi era. Margarete Hoell . Film material. Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education, Hanover 1984.
  • Corinna Heins, Anne Jäger: Margarete Hoell (née Baumgarten), communist resistance fighter (1909–1986). In: Women in the List. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 60 (2006), pp. 260–264
  • Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Hoell, Grete. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 302.
  • Herbert Obenaus , Wilhelm Sommer: Political prisoners in the court prison in Hanover during the National Socialist rule. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 44 (1990), pp. 194–197.
  • Wilhelm Sommer: Margarete Hoell. A Hanoverian communist in the resistance. In: History learning , Vol. 7 (1994), Hannover 40, pp. 48–53.

Web links

Commons : Grete Hoell  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ^ Wilhelm Sommer: Margarete Hoell. A Hanoverian communist in the resistance. In: History learning , Vol. 7 (1994), Hannover 40, pp. 48–53.
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Mlynek: Welcome, Kurt. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 390.
  3. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: Hoell, Grete. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 172.
personal data
SURNAME Hell, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoell, Margarete; Baumgarten, Grete; Baumgarten, Margarete; Nagel, Grete; Nagel, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Communist resistance fighter in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1986
Place of death Hanover