Marta Husemann

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Marta Husemann (left) with Harro Schulze-Boysen (right) and Günther Weisenborn

Marta Husemann born Wolter (born August 20, 1913 in Berlin ; † June 30, 1960 ) was a German actress and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime a . a. in the Red Chapel .

Life

Husemann learned the trade as a seamstress and joined the KJVD in 1928 . In 1931 she became a member of the KPD . In the classic film Kuhle Wampe or: Who Owns the World? von Slatan Dudow she played as "Gerda" one of the two main female roles. In 1935 she processed the experiences she had made as an actress with her script for the short film Five People Seeking Connection . The film was directed by Jürgen von Alten in the Berlin department store KaDeWe .

In the same year she was questioned for the first time by the Gestapo . She was arrested in November 1936 and subsequently imprisoned in Moringen concentration camp from March to June 1937 as a “preventive prisoner” - euphemistically also called protective custody .

Together with her husband Walter Husemann , she then became active in the anti-fascist group of the Red Orchestra around Harro Schulze-Boysen . The group often met unobserved by the Gestapo at Liebenberg Castle with the Schulze-Boysen couple. Particularly intensive contacts existed with the couple Gerhard and Gerda Sredzki , who actively participated in the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein-Organization in the resistance against National Socialism .

She was arrested again on September 19, 1942, and sentenced to 4 years in prison by the Reich Court Martial in January 1943 . The director of the Moringen Concentration Camp Memorial , Ursula Gerecht , reported in her lecture Marta Wolter and “Kuhle Wampe” - The story of a woman and the story of a film : “Marta Husemann was the first to write in her detention diary: '...' the whole of Department 5 is full of our women. There are very many ... '; She wrote about Libertas Schulze-Boysen : 'A person who should never have been initiated into illegal work. Not a conscious traitor. But easy to talk through their excessive vanity '. "

In 1945 Marta Husemann was freed from the Leipzig-Klein Meusdorf women's prison by the Red Army .

After the end of the war, she worked in the KPD district leadership in East Berlin . By remarrying with SED politician Hans Jendretzky , she took on the name Martha Jendretzky. Your urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

literature

Web links

Commons : Marta Husemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The "other" capital of the Reich. Resistance from the labor movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 . Lukas-Verlag: Berlin 2007; P. 479
  2. ↑ geschichtswerkstatt-goettingen.de
  3. ↑ German Resistance Memorial Center: Topic “Die Rote Kapelle”: Networks of Resistance ( Memento from 23 August 2010 in the Internet Archive ); As of November 16, 2014
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Benz, Walter H. Pehle: Lexicon of German Resistance . Frankfurt am Main 2001: Fischer TB, p. 361
  5. ^ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The "other" capital of the Reich. Resistance from the labor movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 . Lukas-Verlag: Berlin 2007; Page 478
personal data
SURNAME Husemann, Marta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolter, Marta; Jendretzky, Martha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1960