Paula Rueß

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Paula Rueß b. Kopp (born May 3, 1902 in Lichtensteig , † August 8, 1980 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German resistance fighter in the Resistance .

Life

Paula Rueß became a member of the KPD at the age of 21 . From 1928 she worked in the secretariat of the foreign office of the Communist Youth International in Berlin and then in the secretariat of the Central Committee of the KPD.

She was married in her first marriage to Hermann Nuding from 1925 , after whose arrest she emigrated to France via Copenhagen in 1933. Here she worked for the "illegally" published newspaper Volk und Vaterland and the Comintern . In 1940 she was interned in the camp de Rieucros .

From November 1941 to November 1943 she was a member of the KPD country leadership in Paris and worked on the editing and production of newspapers and leaflets for the Committee Free Germany for the West .

At the end of November 1943, Paula Rueß was arrested as a pregnant woman by the Gestapo in Paris and mistreated by an officer so that she lost her child. On August 13, 1944, she was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp on the last transport of prisoners from France . After the liberation she moved to Esslingen.

After her divorce from Nuding, she married the KPD politician and member of the state parliament Hans Rueß (1901–1974) in 1947 . She had been expatriated by National Socialist Germany and therefore had to fight for years to regain German citizenship, as the subsequent civil service in West Germany refused to eliminate the Nazi injustice.

In the post-war period, she continued to be politically active and became a union secretary. She was one of the founding members of the Democratic Women's Union of Germany and campaigned for the reparation of former concentration camp prisoners, was involved in the peace movement, the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime, and became a member of the German Communist Party in 1968 . In the local elections in 1975 she ran for the list connection DKP / FWE.

Honors

On her last house, a plaque from the state of Baden-Württemberg commemorates her service in the Resistance.

literature

  • Heidi Großmann: Paula Rueß - communist and resistance fighter . In: Friedrich Pospiech (Hrsg.): Unteachable on the truth insistent ... Paula and Hans Rueß Pahl-Rugenstein-Verlag: Cologne 2002
  • Heidi Großmann: Paula Rueß - communist and resistance fighter. In: City of Esslingen (ed.): FemaleES. Searched for and discovered women's history. Esslingen 1999, pp. 89-112.
  • Women from Germany in the French Resistance. Workers' movement series: research, documents, biographies, ed. v. Ulla Plener . Berlin 2005 ISBN 3-929390-80-9 page 120ff
  • Friedrich Pospiech: Unteachable people who persist in the truth ...: Paula and Hans Ruess: two lives in the resistance against war and fascism. Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag Successor: Bonn 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rieucros.org/femmescamp/femmes_camp.php
  2. ↑ Robert Steigerwald in the newspaper our time on June 28, 2002.
  3. ^ Election poster in the Freiburg State Archives
personal data
SURNAME Rueß, Paula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kopp, Paula; Nuding, Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter in the Resistance
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichtensteig
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1980
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar