Maria Gress

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Maria Gress (born January 23, 1897 in Strasbourg , † April 5, 1945 in Copenhagen ) was a German educator and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Maria Gress attended elementary school and the municipal high school for girls in Strasbourg. The family later moved to Iffezheim for political reasons. After taking her school leaving examination, she also passed the teaching examination in 1917. On November 6, 1919, she asked for employment in the Baden school service. In 1921 she was supposed to teach at the Elisabeth School in Mannheim, but refused because she had found a job as a private teacher in Badenweiler . In 1923 she was employed as an assistant teacher in Tennenbronn and promoted to school administrator on October 1, 1924. This was followed by a year in Elchesheim before she applied for a transfer to Iffezheim.

She began her service on May 16, 1925 at the elementary school in Iffezheim . The school principal there, Wilhelm Hiller, belonged to the NSDAP and was an ardent representative of the new ideology. Maria Gress refused to make a donation in 1936 to transform the Iffezheim school into a National Socialist model institution. When she was confronted by Hiller, she replied in writing and declared her rejection of National Socialism. Hiller denounced Gress and forwarded the letter to the local branch of the National Socialist Teachers' Association (NSLB) in Rastatt and informed the responsible district education office. Gress was discharged from school. In 1939 she fled to Copenhagen , where she entered a monastery and became a nun.

Maria Gress died of tuberculosis on April 5, 1945 .

The Iffezheim secondary and secondary school was renamed Maria-Gress-Schule in her honor.

literature

  • Adalbert Metzinger : People in Resistance - Central Baden 1933–1943 (=  special publication of the Rastatt district archive, volume 13 ). regional culture publishing house, Rastatt 2017, ISBN 978-3-89735-978-9 , p. 92-96 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maria Greß: What predestines you to give our school its name? Iffezheim.de, accessed on February 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gress, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1945
Place of death Copenhagen