Nanda Herbermann

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Maria Ferdinanda Herbermann (born December 29, 1903 in Münster ; † August 2, 1979 in Beelen ) was a German author and critic of the Nazi regime during the Nazi era . Before the Second World War, a close collaborator of the Jesuit and resistance fighter Friedrich Muckermann , she then had to spend a year and a half in a concentration camp after a few months in prison . After the war she resumed her writing and became chairwoman of the recognition committee for the persecuted in Münster.

Life

Herbermann came from a deeply religious Roman Catholic family and grew up with ten siblings. Her father was a tax officer. After completing the secondary school for girls without a degree, she spent some time as a guest lecturer for art history and literature at the University of Münster . In the 1920s, after taking acting classes, she appeared in the theater and made friends with the painter Ernst Hase . Following training in the book trade, Herbermann became the private secretary of the Jesuit father Friedrich Muckermann in 1928. She was responsible for the editorial and correspondence office of the latter's magazine The Grail , for which she contributed numerous articles, some of which were critical of the regime. After Muckermann fled to the Netherlands in 1934 and founded his new newspaper Der Deutsche Weg together with Josef Steinhage , Herbermann took over the sole editing of the Grail .

Especially in the first years of the Deutscher Weg , until Muckermann was ordered to Rome in 1936 and such actions became increasingly dangerous, Herbermann (often together with Albert Maring ) organized meetings near the border for the exchange of information between Oldenzaal , where the Deutsche Weg appeared, and the Münster editorial team. She came under suspicion of working as a mediator between Muckermann and the Münster bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen and was finally arrested on flimsy accusations and subjected to interrogation in early February 1941 for lack of evidence. Herbermann spent the time in Münster in solitary confinement until August 1941, after which she was transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp , where she was employed as the block elder in a barrack occupied by prostitutes. After her family intervened with Heinrich Himmler , she was released in March 1943. After that she took her residence again in Munster and was under surveillance by the Gestapo .

After the Second World War Herbermann was again active as a writer in Münster and worked as a writer and author of newspaper and magazine articles. 1946 appeared with her work The Blessed Abyss. Protective prisoner No. 6582 in the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp in post-war Germany one of the first biographical reports on the time in a concentration camp (2000 also in an English translation). Furthermore, Herbermann worked in her hometown as chair of the recognition committee for those persecuted politically, racially and religiously. On January 31, 1954, she was one of the first women in the Federal Republic to be awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. On her 70th birthday she received the Paulus plaque from Bishop Heinrich Tenhumberg . She died on August 2, 1979 and was buried in the Münster Central Cemetery.

In Münster, the Nanda-Herbermann-Weg was named in memory of her.

Fonts

  • The blessed abyss: Prisoner No. 6582 in the women's concentration camp Ravensbrück , Glock & Lutz, Nuremberg / Bamberg / Passau 1946 (fourth edition in 2002; published in English under the title The blessed abyss 2000)
  • In memoriam P. Friedrich Muckermann SJ , Giesel, Celle 1948
  • What love endures ... , Giesel, Celle 1949
  • ... Your Angelika: Letters to Nobody , Martin Verl. Berger, Buxheim 1962

literature

  • Lutz Hagestedt (ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century . Volume XVII: Henze-Hettwer. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023163-2 .
  • Internationale Frauenbegegnungsstätte Ravensbrück Förderverein eV: Christian women resisting National Socialism: Prisoners in the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp 1939 to 1945 , Morus-Verlag GmbH, Berlin 1998/1999, ISBN 9783875543360 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück / Förderverein Internationale Frauenbegegnungsstätte (Ravensbrück) (Hrsg.): Christian women resisting National Socialism. Prisoners in the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp from 1939–1945. More-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-87554-336-X , p. 59.
  2. ↑ a b German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century . Volume XVII: Henze-Hettwer , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, p. 32
  3. ^ Hanno Hardt, Elke Hilscher, Winfried B. Lerg (eds.): Press in Exile . Saur, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-598-02530-0 , p. 209.
  4. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  5. ↑ Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück / Förderverein Internationale Frauenbegegnungsstätte (Ravensbrück) (Hrsg.): Christian women resisting National Socialism. Prisoners in the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp from 1939–1945. More-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-87554-336-X , p. 60.
personal data
SURNAME Herbermann, Nanda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herbermann, Maria Ferdinanda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, writer and critic of the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1979
Place of death Beelen