Maria Loersch

Maria Loersch (born August 2, 1900 in Saarbrücken ; † March 2, 1986 there ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

Life

Maria Loersch grew up in Saarbrücken and married the locksmith Franz Loersch in 1920 . This marriage resulted in two children. Her husband died in 1930. She joined the KPD a year later and represented the party on the Saarbrücken city council from 1932. She was also head of the communist women's organization in Saarbrücken. In 1934 she took part in an international women's congress in Paris. After the Saar was annexed to the German Reich , she initially stayed in Saarbrücken, where she was part of an illegal KPD network together with Käthe Westenburger , Willi Hermann , Otto Johänntgen and others. She sent her children to neighboring France with the help of International Workers' Aid .

When she traveled to Paris again in May 1935 to attend a women's congress, she learned of arrests in the Saarland and stayed in France with the support of the Red Aid . In March 1941, she was from the Gestapo arrested and subsequently to a penitentiary convicted of four years. She served most of her imprisonment in Aichach Prison in Upper Bavaria.

literature

• Luitwien Bies: Maria Loersch . In: Luitwin Bies / Horst Bernard (ed.): Saarland women against the Nazis. Persecuted - Evicted - Expropriated . Blattlaus-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2004, ISBN 3-930771-31-4 , p. 71-73 .