Marie-Luise Plener

Marie-Luise Plener , b. Marie Luise Weinand , married. Marie Luise Plener-Huber (born November 30, 1909 in Essen , † June 7, 1996 in Berlin ) was a German resistance fighter and journalist .

Life

The working-class daughter Marie Luise Weinand joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) as a teenager in 1925 and became a member of the KPD in 1929 . She worked in the women's committee and in the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) in the Ruhr area and in Berlin .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, Marie Luise Plener had to leave Germany together with her husband Kurt Plener and their daughter Ulla Plener, who was born in 1933 , because Kurt Plener had an arrest warrant . The family emigrated to the Soviet Union . Marie Luise Plener attended the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West and received a political education. In June 1939, Marie Luise Plener volunteered to work as a courier in France . Then Plener studied at the Sorbonne in Paris until France surrendered .

After the invasion of the German Wehrmacht , Plener was arrested and interned in Gurs . However, she escaped from custody with a group of women and was staying illegally in Toulouse . There she supported the illegal KPD leadership, the Travail allemand and the Committee Free Germany for the West . Plener worked undercover in a German agency and collected information for the Resistance and saved French civilians from forced labor in Germany, in 1944 and 1945 Plener worked for the Toulouse broadcaster and the newspaper Soldat am Mediterranean . She gave lectures to German prisoners of war until the end of the war.

In the summer of 1945 Plener returned to Germany and started working for the police in Essen. Because of her commitment to the KPD, Plener was dismissed from the police force by the British occupation forces and moved to the Soviet occupation zone in 1947 . Until 1949 Plener was employed by the predecessor of the Ministry of the Interior of the German Democratic Republic , but was disadvantaged as a western emigrant after the founding of the GDR. Plener then worked in publishing in the GDR and died in Berlin in 1996. In 2010 her daughter, Ulla Plener, published a book about her mother's life entitled “I don't regret my life. The life story of an idealist - Marie-Luise Plener-Huber ”.

literature

• Ulla Plener: “I don't regret my life.” The life story of an idealist - Marie-Luise Plener-Huber , NORA Verlag, Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86557-220-2 .

Web links

• Review of the book The Life Story of an Idealist.
• Review of the book by Karlen Vesper
• Book launch I don't regret my life