Maria Pink

Maria Pink (born February 10, 1904 in Neunkirchen as Maria Oster , † May 4, 1988 in Völklingen ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Maria Oster grew up in poor circumstances as one of five children of an disabled woodworker. She had married a smelter early on , but he died shortly afterwards. As a widow with two children, she earned her living as a cashier. In 1932 she joined the KPD . After the gasometer explosion in Neunkirchen , she organized solidarity aid. In the KPD she met Hans Pink , whom she later married. After the seizure of power , she was not only involved in the voting campaign for the Saar area , she also traveled to the German Reich to support the illegally operating KPD group in Frankfurt.

Unlike many of her comrades, she initially stayed in Neunkirchen after the annexation of the Saar area and served as a liaison with the Forbach KPD group until she had to flee the Gestapo in the summer of 1936 . In France , she joined the Resistance in the Aude department .

After the Second World War she was involved in welfare and was an expert on the Völklingen Social Committee . Politically, she remained loyal to the KPD. She was involved in women's work and published articles in the party newspaper Neue Zeit .

literature

• Luitwien Bies: Maria Pink . In: Luitwin Bies / Horst Bernard (ed.): Saarland women against the Nazis. Persecuted - Evicted - Expropriated . Blattlaus-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2004, ISBN 3-930771-31-4 , p. 89-92 .