Marie Fiering
(Sophie) Marie Fiering (* September 18 or September 28, 1897 ; † April 21 or April 23, 1945 in Neuengamme ) was a German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and a victim of fascism .
Life
Sophie Marie Fiering and her sister Frieda grew up with their parents in a working-class household. Soon after it was founded, she joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). She married the electrician Ernst Fiering , who worked at the Stülckenwerft while she remained a housewife. Her husband got involved in the KPD against the emerging National Socialism . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , she and her husband participated in the resistance group " Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen ". They provided help for foreign forced laborers and in educating people about the warfare of the Nazi regime. Together with her husband Ernst and his colleagues Franz Reetz and Paul Zinke , they formed a resistance cell that met in the Fierings' basement apartment. Even after many members of the Bästlein group were arrested, they continued to work illegally in the resistance. In December 1944, the Gestapo tracked them down and arrested Marie Fiering, her husband Ernst Fiering and her sister Frieda Wischnewski and took them to the Gestapo prison in Fuhlsbüttel . Although Marie Fiering could not be proven participation in the resistance, she was together with 70 other prisoners, including her husband Ernst, in the Neuengamme concentration camp abducted and there with a so-called crimes of the final phase without court ruling on the nights between 21 and 23 Hanged April 1945. Before they were murdered themselves, the women had to watch the murder of other inmates. One after the other, the women were hung naked next to one another on butcher's hooks.
Honors
- In 1985 in Hamburg-Neuallermöhe a street was named " Marie-Fiering-Kehre " in honor of it
- On February 5, 2003, the action artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling stone each for Marie Fiering and her husband Ernst in front of the former Fierings house at St. Georgs Kirchhof 26 .
literature
- Rita Bake : Who is behind this? Streets, squares and bridges in Hamburg named after women. State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-929728-29-X ; as pdf: Marie Fiering's biogram (PDF; 959 kB).
- Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance. 1933–1945 , (1969), 2nd edition, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-87682-036-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.hamburgwiki.de/wiki/Sophie_Marie_Fiering ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 22, 2011
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2013 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. Retrieved August 22, 2011
- ↑ http://dkp-hamburg.de/pdf/BergedorferUtsichten-012011.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 22, 2011
- ↑ http://www.gw-stgeorg.de/werkstatt/stolpersteine/chronik.html Retrieved August 22, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fiering, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fiering, Sophie Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1897 or September 28, 1897 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1945 or April 23, 1945 |
| Place of death | Neuengamme concentration camp |