Marie-Louise Sarre

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Marie-Louise Sarre (born November 13, 1903 in Neubabelsberg ; † 1999 in Ascona , Switzerland ) was a German sculptor and secretary who belonged to the so-called Solf group of resistance against National Socialism .

Life

Marie-Louise Sarre called "Puppi" was the daughter of the art historian and museum director Friedrich Sarre and his wife Maria, nee. Humann, daughter of the archaeologist Carl Humann . She grew up in affluent circumstances in her parents' Villa Sarre in Neubabelsberg. She got in touch with the Solf family through her father. Friedrich Sarre was a member of the SeSiSo Club in Berlin, which Wilhelm Solf co-founded, and Puppi became the friend of Lagi Solf, who later became Lagi Countess von Ballestrem . She developed a weakness for sculpture at an early age and wanted to take up this profession too, for example she made a bronze bust of Werner Jaeger .

During the time of National Socialism she worked as a secretary in the staff of Army Group Center .

In her own words, she served the conspiracy against Hitler as an "inconspicuous messenger" between members of the resistance. She was friends with the lawyer Carl Langbehn and after his trip to Switzerland, during which he had contacted the OSS under Allen Welsh Dulles , both were arrested in autumn 1943 and taken to the police headquarters on Alexanderplatz for interrogation.

Sarre knew of the plans of Johannes Popitz and Carl Langbehn to include Heinrich Himmler in the conspiracy. Langbehn was executed in October 1944, Sarre was taken to “ protective custody ” in the Ravensbrück concentration camp , where she wanted to make the everyday life of the other prisoners a little more bearable with unswerving courage and sympathy. She was in a cell above Isa Vermehren , on the left was Helmuth James Graf von Moltke and on the right Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff . In addition to her contacts with Hanna Solf and Lagi von Ballestrem , she was also friends with Irmgard Zarden, Arthur Zardens daughter . Even Peter Bielenberg , the study friend of Adam von Trott , hit the "Puppi" in Ravensbrück again. She was friends with the Bielenberg couple and had brokered the friendship between them and Carl Langbehn. Rudolf Pechel later said of Sarre: "She was the blonde angel from Ravensbrück, our Elsa Brändström ."

In January 1944, the actress Käthe Dorsch, through Hanns Johst , the President of the Reich Chamber of Literature , campaigned for Heinrich Himmler to have Sarre released. Dorsch had heard of the love affair between Sarre and Langbehn and tried to stand up for them through their contacts. Hanns Johst, on the other hand, replied to Dorsch's inquiry about a possible release of Sarre four weeks later: “My dear Käthchen! I submitted your good letter with the intercession for the Sarre family to the Reichsführer. He regrets that he cannot do anything about this matter. So much for this case. ”In April 1945 Marie-Luise Sarre was brought to an SS hospital for health reasons, from which she escaped and on April 20, 1945 she was able to return to her parents in Neubabelsberg.

After the Second World War, Marie-Louise Sarre was flown to Frankfurt am Main in mid-August 1945 and gave Allen Welsh Dulles a detailed report on what was going on around the Solf district. Two weeks later she was able to travel with her mother to Switzerland, where she found a new home with her sister Irene and her husband Eduard Wätjen and with the support of Eduard von der Heydt on Monte Verità in Ascona.

literature

  • Hans Sarre : From Babelsberg to Freiburg. Memories. Vol. 1, Freiburg 1985, pp. 48-50.
  • Martha Schad : Women against Hitler. Fates under National Socialism. Heyne, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-86138-8 , pp. 183-187 Fig. 31 (portrait photo).
  • Jens Kröger : Friedrich Sarre. Art historian, collector and connoisseur. In: Julia Gonnella , Jens Kröger (ed.): How Islamic art came to Berlin. The collector and museum director Friedrich Sarre (1865–1945). Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst and Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-496-01544-4 ; ISBN 978-3-88609-769-2 , p. 40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Bronze for Posterity. Werner Jaeger at the Center for Hellenic Studies . In: Harvard Magazine. November 2005, p. 104 (with a picture of the bust); Maximilian W. Kempner, Frederick Kempner: “Puppi” and a Correction. In: Harvard Magazine. February 2006, p. 8f.
  2. ↑ Allen Welsh Dulles: Conspiracy in Germany. Europa, Zurich 1948, p. 187.
  3. ^ To Carl Langbehn and Marie-Louise Sarre: Claus Langbehn: The game of the defender. The lawyer Carl Langbehn in the resistance against National Socialism. Lukas, Berlin 2014, pp. 65, 84 ff., 101 f., 105, 128, 133 ff.
  4. ↑ Von Moltke was a lawyer in the law firm of Friedrich-Carl Sarre , the brother of Marie-Louise Sarre, and Eduard Wätjen , her brother-in-law from 1940 to 1944 . Günter Brakelmann: Being a Christian in the Resistance. Helmuth James von Moltke. Insights into the life of a young German. Berlin, Münster 2008, p. 251.
  5. ↑ Christabel Bielenberg : When I was German: 1934 to 1945 - An English woman tells. Authoris. German version by Christian Spiel, Biederstein-Verlag, Munich 1969, p. 89.
  6. ^ Rudolf Pechel: German Resistance. Rentsch, Erlenbach-Zurich 1947, p. 227.
  7. ↑ Martha Schad: Women against Hitler. Fates under National Socialism. Heyne, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-86138-8 , pp. 184-186.
  8. ↑ Allen Welsh Dulles: Conspiracy in Germany. Europa Verlag, Zurich 1948, p. 187. 203-209; Letters from Marie-Louise Sarre in the Allen Welsh Dulles Papers in the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library of Princeton University Series 1, Correspondence S, Box 51-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Sarre, Marie-Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarre, Puppi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and resistance fighter in the Solf district
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubabelsberg
DATE OF DEATH 1999
Place of death Ascona , Switzerland