Maria Wiedmaier

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Maria Wiedmaier (born October 19, 1896 ; † October 20, 1977 ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism and a survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

Life

Wiedmaier became a member of the KPD in 1919 and was particularly active in youth and women's work. From 1933 she participated with her husband Eugen Wiedmaier (1900-1940) in the anti-fascist resistance , which she continued after his arrest until her own arrest for working in resistance group G around Hans Gasparitsch .

On February 28, 1938, she became a four-year prison sentence convicted. However, she was deported to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp as early as October 1940.

After the liberation from the concentration camp in 1945 she took part in building anti-fascist structures in the Berlin administration and headed the OdF committee in the Charlottenburg district . At the first rally on OdF Day in 1945, she appeared as a speaker.

In 1949 she returned to her son from her first marriage in Zuffenhausen for a while, as her health was shattered by her imprisonment during the Nazi era. She then continued her political work in Berlin, where she married a third time. Her new partner became the editor and general secretary of VVN Harry Kuhn .

She was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit (VVO) in 1958 and 1971 ; In 1976 she received the gold medal for the VVO.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stumbling blocks in Stuttgart
  2. ↑ Grit Philipp (with the help of Monika Schnell): Calendar of events in the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp 1939 - 1945, Berlin 1999, p. 55.
  3. ↑ First commemoration: The rally in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Kampfbahn ( Memento from February 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: archive material in the holdings of the Federal Archives@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bundesarchiv.de
  5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , August 27, 1976, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Wiedmaier, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuhn-Wiedmaier, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1896
DATE OF DEATH 20th October 1977