Marie Luise Hensel

Marie Luise Hensel , maiden name Marie Luise Flothmann (born August 8, 1894 in Bad Ems , † August 1942 in Konstanz ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

After the end of the First World War, Marie Luise Flothmann married the legal scholar Albert Hensel , who became a professor at the University of Königsberg in 1929. The two had two sons, Kurt and Martin. After his compulsory leave of absence due to the Aryan paragraph in April 1933 - his mother Gertrud geb. Hahn (1866–1954) was Jewish and his paternal great-grandmother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's sister Fanny Hensel  - Albert Hensel traveled to Pavia , where he died.

After the death of her husband, Marie Luise Hensel lived in Marburg an der Lahn . In August 1942 she tried to get the Jewish lawyer Hermann Reis and his wife and daughter to safety across the German-Swiss border on Lake Constance. When she and her friend Käthe Jung were looking for an escape route in the Überlingen area on August 27 , they were arrested on the basis of a denunciation and taken to the Konstanz prison. After three days of interrogation, she committed suicide there, fearing that she would reveal secrets and thereby endanger her family. The Reis family was deported to Auschwitz and murdered there. Käthe Jung was released after a few days in prison.

Honors

Marie Luise Hensel was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations on December 10, 1972 .

The Marie-Luise-Hensel-Weg in Marburg bears her name.

literature

• Israel Gutman , Daniel Fraenkel, Jacob Borut (ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations: Germans and Austrians. Wallstein Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-89244900-3 , p. 147.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian Tilitzki : The leave of absence of the constitutional law teacher Albert Hensel in 1933. A contribution to the history of the Königsberg University. In: Mendelssohn Studies (2001) 12, pp. 243–261
2. ^ City of Marburg: Marburg celebrities with street names. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .