Mirjam David

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Mirjam David (born November 25, 1917 in Munich ; died February 7, 1975 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German chemist and resistance fighter against National Socialism in the vicinity of the " White Rose ".

Life

David studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Her father fought in World War I and died in 1919 as a result of a war injury. Since her father was Jewish, she was considered a “ Jewish hybrid ” according to the racist ideology of the Nazis . She worked at the university's chemical-physical institute, headed by Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Wieland , who, thanks to his scientific reputation, could afford to disregard racial ideology when selecting his employees. Hans Conrad Leipelt , who, together with Marie-Luise Jahn, continued the resistance activity of the White Rose after the execution of the Munich students , also worked at the same institute .

On November 10, 1943, David was arrested and taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . She was accused of having received and read the sixth leaflet of the White Rose, which Leipelt and Jahn had reproduced, but of not having reported possession of the leaflet. On December 12, 1944, she was sentenced to two years in prison by the Second Senate of the “ People's Court ” for “failing to report a treasonable enterprise” . After 1945 she lacked the strength to continue her work as a chemist. She died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1975.

Honor

By resolution of the German Bundestag on January 25, 1985, the decisions of the “People's Court” as “a tool of the Nazi regime of injustice” were declared null and void. In May 2017, a street at the headquarters of the Münchner Stadtwerke in Moosach was named after her.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Persecuted by the Nazis: Late honor for a resistance fighter. In: Munich evening newspaper. May 31, 2017, accessed January 2, 2018 .
  2. ^ Bundestag , 10th electoral term, 118th plenary session. Bonn, Friday, January 25, 1985. Protocol p. 8762 PDF , accessed January 2, 2018
  3. ↑ Persecuted by the Nazis: Late Honor for Resistance Fighter. In: Munich evening newspaper. May 31, 2017, accessed January 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME David, Miriam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1975
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen