Marie Catherine Kneup

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Marie Catherine Kneup (née Kremer; born July 7, 1899 in Großblittersdorf ; † October 4, 1938 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a resistance fighter who was beheaded for alleged treason .

In 1926 Kneup moved from Großblittersdorf in Lorraine (France) to her husband's hometown Kleinblittersdorf in the Rhine Province on the opposite side of the Saar in what is now Saarland . There she took a job in the household of a German spy who recruited her for the espionage service. At the same time, however, it also provided information to the French secret service . After a failed break-in at a regional head of German espionage in 1937, planned by the Kneup couple, the two were arrested. Marie Catherine Kneup was sentenced to death in the People's Court for high treason and executed the following year .

Her fate and that of her husband Albert served as the basis for a novel called Spatzenkirschen by Ellen Widmaier and for a radio play in the ARD radiofeature series .

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  1. Christine Faure, Enciclopedia Historica y Politica de Las Mujeres, Madrid 2010, p. 602.