Margarethe Lachmund

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Margarethe Mathilde Pauline Lachmund , also Margarete Lachmund ; born Grobbecker (born September 17, 1896 in Woldegk ; † October 14, 1985 in Cologne ) was a German Quaker worker, resistance fighter and peace activist .

Live and act

Lachmund, who came from an Evangelical Lutheran pastor's household and grew up in Wanzka in what was then Mecklenburg-Strelitz , attended the teachers' seminar in Schwerin and initially worked as a private tutor at Gut Wedendorf . From 1918 to 1920 she was a member of the conservative German National People's Party . In 1927 she joined the SPD in response to the Kapp Putsch and the murder of Walther Rathenau . From 1933 she was active in the resistance against National Socialism , first in liberal democratic and later in communist circles. At the same time, faced with the emerging Nazi regime, she joined the Religious Society of Friends , which she had met in 1924 at a conference in London. Later living in Warin , Anklam and Greifswald , she was one of the Germans who helped many of her Jewish fellow citizens to hide, to make a living despite persecution and to keep in contact with them when they were sent to concentration camps. The motivation for this action grew out of their attachment to the beliefs and ethics of the Quakers , who advocate the unconditional protection of all human life. She herself experienced surveillance, spying, denunciation and house searches .

After the liberation from the Nazi tyranny she was closely connected to the work of the Quaker office in Berlin , of which she was the executive writer from 1948 to 1954, after the “German Annual Meeting” of the international “Religious Society of Friends” reopened its Berlin office in 1947 would have. From 1954 to 1962 she was a clerk on the Quaker Peace Committee . Since she lived in West Berlin at the time the Berlin Wall was built , she could no longer get to the Quaker office in East Berlin. She was partly responsible for the fact that Roland Warren from the USA, an international representative of the Quakers, was sent to Berlin.

During the years of German rearmament , she campaigned for the right to conscientious objection to be included in the German constitution . As a member of the German Peace Society, she campaigned against the stationing and disposal of nuclear weapons by the federal government. Lachmund supported the work of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK), at whose 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly she took part in 1961 in Prague .

On her 80th birthday, an honoring life picture of Margarete Lachmund was published in Vienna , published by the German branch of the Quakers in 1976.

She had been married since 1921 to the lawyer Hans Lachmund (1892–1972), who despite their joint resistance to National Socialism was arrested by the Soviet occupation authorities in Greifswald in the summer of 1945, taken to the special camp Fünfeichen and imprisoned in the Waldheim trials for 25 years was convicted. In 1954 he was pardoned. Their son Peter (* 1923) became a conductor and later headed the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne for many years .

Honors

  • In 2000 the Hanseatic City of Greifswald honored its former fellow citizen by naming a street.
  • The German annual meeting honored the peace activist 2010 on its homepage by printing a lecture that she gave in Oslo in 1959 at a conference on peace work of the European Section (EMES) of the Advisory World Committee of Friends (FWCC).

estate

Hans and Margarethe Lachmund's estate is in the Schwerin State Main Archives .

Works

  • The position of Christians in the tensions between East and West. Vienna: Sensen-Verl., [Around 1955]
  • The inner peace and the necessary unrest. Bad Pyrmont: Friedrich 1958 (Richard L. Cary lecture)
  • (with Ernst Adolf Otto Peetz): Allen be a brother ...: Corder Catchpool, (1883-1952), an English friend in German distress. A picture of life, compiled from English templates and supplemented by EA Otto Peetz in collaboration with Margarethe Lachmund. Bad Pyrmont: Religious Ges. D. Friends (Quakers) in Germany [Friedrich in Komm.] [1963] ( voices of the friends ; H. 3)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBKL (lit.) gives Wanzka as her place of birth; her father Adolf Grobbecker only became pastor there in 1901; at the time of her birth he was Vice-Rector in Woldegk; see Georg Krüger: The pastors in Stargard since the Reformation. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 69 (1904), pp. 1–270, here p. 214 ( digitized version ( memento of the original from January 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet Checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / portal.hsb.hs-wismar.de
  2. ^ "Quakers from politics, science and art: 20th century. A biographical lexicon" , by Claus Bernet, publisher: Bautz, Traugott; Edition: 2 (2008), ISBN 978-3-88309-469-4 , page 105
  3. ↑ Margarethe Lachmund: With the adversary on the way. In: Crossed hatred. Berlin: Käthe Vogt Verlag 1961, pp. 105–122, here p. 107.
  4. ↑ http://www.ekd.de/esg/1576.php  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ekd.de  
  5. ↑ http://www.muenchen.info/ba/03/ba_info/docs/StilleHelfer.pdf
  6. ↑ See CH Mike Yarrow: Quaker experiences in international conciliation. Yale University Press 1978 ISBN 978-0-300-02260-5 , pp. 64f
  7. ↑ http://www.rgdf.de//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=111&Itemid=1
  8. ↑ Entry in the central database of bequests .
  9. ↑ duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/ servlets / DerivateServlet / Derivate-10710
personal data
SURNAME Lachmund, Margarethe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lachmund, Margarethe Mathilde Pauline (full name); Lachmund, Margarete; Grobbecker, Margarethe (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Quaker worker, resistance fighter and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Woldegk
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1985
Place of death Cologne