Marie Elisabeth Leonie Gertrud Paula zu Stolberg-Stolberg

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Marie Elisabeth Leonie Gertrud Paula Countess zu Stolberg-Stolberg (born November 12, 1912 in Ascherode , † November 16, 1944 in Düren ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism and a Jewish helper .

family

She was the daughter of Joseph Oskar Franziskus Antonius Hubertus Maria, Count zu Stolberg-Stolberg , Lord of Ascherode, Borlinghausen and Puth ( Voerendaal ) (* 1874 Kasteel Neubourg near Gulpen , Netherlands; † 1956 Gulpen) and Theresia, Baroness von Ketteler (* 1890 in Thüle ; † 1973 Schaan , Lichtenstein). The countess died in the great air raid on Düren .

Jewish aid

She had moved from Thuringia to the Rhineland around 1940 and founded a weaving mill in Düren . This was located in the former monastery rooms next to the Capuchin Church on the Altenteich. The buildings were destroyed by enemy bombs in 1944, and today is the Düren collegiate high school . From 1940 to 1944 the countess hid a Jewish woman with her.

Testimony from Leonhard Meurer

The Catholic pastor Leonhard Meurer from Brüggen near Kerpen reported in 1989 about this aid to Jews :

When we asked all priests and pastors in the region who lived in active service between 1933 and 1945, whether they could tell us about their own and other people's help that they knew, we received very few answers. One of these few is documented below:

Kerpen-Brüggen, September 15, 1989 Dear Confrater [meaning the chairman of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation], I have just had time to answer you right away: I myself had no opportunity to help persecuted Jews. But I would like to refer you to a Countess (Maria) Stolberg zu Stolberg, who was well known to me at the time, born for example. 1910. She had come to the west from Stolberg Castle in Thuringia and had started her own weaving mill in (my hometown) Düren in the former monastery next to the Capuchin Church on the Altenteich (at that time a vocational school). Countess Stolberg had taken in a Jewish woman for a long time from 1940-44, giving false information - but she was probably a little disordered and too careless, so that her discovery was to be expected. Your (truly bold) patroness Countess Stolberg asked me - probably in 1944 - whether I could stay the younger woman for a while in the village of Anrath near Krefeld - which I promised. But then I didn't see her again, she didn't come. And the countess remained among the (20,000?) Dead in Düren on November 16, 1944.

Your Leonhard Meurer Rev. i. R.

Testimony from Joseph Emonds

During the Nazi era in the Rhineland, the countess led a group that hid Jews. On July 20, 1961, the priest said Joseph Emond in the ZDF film July 20 by a

Ring of people from the youth movement , led by the Countess of Westphalia, who sent persecuted Jewish fellow citizens to her friends so that they could be hidden .

The Countess of Westphalia is Marie Elisabeth Leonie Gertrud Paula Countess zu Stolberg-Stolberg.

Testimony from Anna Schürkes

Mrs. A. (Anna) Schürkes (1883–1971), Pastor Emonds' housekeeper at the time, reported that

Joseph Emonds took the initiative that the entire organization was in the hands of a countess in Düren or Jülich when she was killed in a bomb attack. ,

swell

  1. ↑ http://www.rhein-erft-geschichte.de/totenzettel/bilder/TS27310_b.jpg
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geschichtswerkstatt-dueren.de
  3. ↑ The ZDF broadcast the film July 20, Alf Werner Apel on July 20, 1961 in the series prism of the West . The film was repeated by WDR on July 20, 1964 under the title Hunted by the Gestapo .
  4. ^ Günter Goebels: Hilde and Mathias Barz on the run from the Gestapo. in http://www.hans-dieter-arntz.de/hilde_und_mathias_barz.html
  5. ↑ http://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/persoenitäten/E/Seiten/JosephEmonds.aspx
  6. ^ Gravestone cemetery Venrath
  7. ↑ H.-Dieter Arntz: persecution of Jews and escape aid in the German-Belgian border area. Euskirchen 1990, p. 714
personal data
SURNAME Stolberg-Stolberg, Marie Elisabeth Leonie Gertrud Paula too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stolberg-Stolberg, Marie Elisabeth Leonie Gertrud Paula Countess to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter against National Socialism and Jewish helper
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Ascherode
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1944
Place of death Düren