Margarete Schmidt

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Margarete Schmidt († March 1915 in Nancy ) was a nurse with German citizenship who worked as a spy for the German Empire . She was sentenced to death for espionage in March 1915 in Nancy, France , as one of the first people in World War I , and executed by shooting . In addition to Schmidt, the same fate befell the nurse Ottilie Moss in Bourges in May 1915 and Félice Pfaad in Le Pharo in Marseille on August 20, 1916 .

The German Empire used the execution of Margarete Schmidt and Ottilie Moss as a justification for the execution of the alleged British spy Edith Cavell in October 1915.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ War echo: weekly chronicle, issues 64-96 . Ullstein & Company, 1915, p. 28 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ A b Thomas St. John Gaffney: Breaking the Silence . England, Ireland, Wilson and the War. H. Liveright, 1930, p. 344 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Stewart Halsey Ross: Propaganda for War . How the United States was Conditioned to Fight the Great War of 1914-1918. McFarland, 1993, pp. 71 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Woman Spy Put to Death , New York Times, August 23, 1916 [1] and French Woman Shot For Aiding Germans , in the Fairmont West Virginian, March 25, 1915, p. 1
  5. ^ The Enemy's Defense , in The Times, October 25, 1915, p. 6
  6. ↑ DMW, German Medical Weekly , Volume 41, Part 2, Georg Thieme Verlag, 1915, p. 1467 ( limited preview in Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German spy sentenced to death
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH March 1915
Place of death Nancy