Marie Louise Stern-Loridan

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Marie Louise Stern-Loridan , née Sender (* 1911 in Saarbrücken ; † unknown ) was a Jewish resistance fighter against National Socialism . After World War II , she became a lawyer in the United States and Belgium.

Life

Marie Louise Sender grew up as the daughter of a Jewish family in Saarbrücken. After graduating from school, she studied in Geneva . In 1933 she married Peter August Stern , then editor-in-chief of the Saarbrücker Abendblatt . Her husband lost his job because of the anti-Semitic attitude of the supervisory board of this newspaper.

Together they founded the Westland publishing house and published the weekly newspaper Westland , a radical democratic paper that opposed the burgeoning National Socialism . Formally, Marie Louise Stern only had a share of 2.5% in the publishing house because she was no longer a resident of the Saar area . Marie Louise Stern was active as an editor both for Westland and for the successor newspaper Grenzland , which appeared from 1934. She also worked as an escape helper for opponents of Hitler from the Third Reich, whom she escorted to the Saar region by bike, including helping Wilhelm Sollmann to get across the border. She disguised herself by tying her naturally blonde hair in braids in order to correspond to the propagated ideal of beauty of an " Aryan " girl. Friends of hers made a joke by sending a photo of her to the Volkischer Beobachter . The picture was actually published with the caption “A German girl from the Saar”.

After the Saar referendum , she and her husband fled to Paris. There she supported her husband's publishing activities financially, as she found a position as executive secretary in a Paris company. After the start of the western campaign , Stern was interned in Gurs , but released because of her parents' French citizenship. Then she and her husband organized the escape to New York City . In the United States she worked as a secretary for Boujoirs & Chanel and stayed in New York after the war. There she was surprised on April 4, 1947 by the news of the death of her husband, who suffered from multiple sclerosis . He had traveled back to Germany to help rebuild. She only returned to Saarbrücken shortly for the funeral. Back in the United States, she studied law at New York Law School and worked as a lawyer.

In 1965 she married the Belgian diplomat Walter Loridan , who was ambassador to the United Nations . She lived with her husband in Brussels and Washington, DC and continued to work as a lawyer.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus-Michael Mallmann ; Gerhard Paul : The fragmented no. Saarlanders against Hitler . Ed .: Hans-Walter Herrmann (=  resistance and refusal in Saarland 1935–1945 . Volume 1 ). Dietz, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-8012-5010-5 , p. 246 .
  2. ↑ Justia.com. Retrieved September 1, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Stern-Loridan, Marie Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sender, Marie Louise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German, Jewish resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century