Placida Laubhardt
Placida Laubhardt, originally Eva Laubhardt (born May 16, 1904 in Zehlendorf near Berlin , † January 4, 1998 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a nun , pastor and resistance fighter .
Life
Eva Laubhardt was the youngest of four children of the district judge Ernst Lewinsohn (born July 13, 1855 in Köslin ), who later changed his name to Laubhardt, and his wife Margarethe Dammer (born February 27, 1861 in Königsberg in der Neumark ), the oldest Daughter of the writer Otto Dammer . At the age of 16 she converted to Catholicism in Breslau (her father was originally a Jew , but converted to Protestant from 1898) and soon afterwards came into contact with Edith Stein , with whom she became a close friend. In 1925 she entered the monastery of the Benedictine Sisters of St. Lioba in Freiburg- Günterstal. For clothing she received the religious name Placida (after Placidus , a student of St. Benedict ).
During the National Socialist era , when she was under surveillance by the Gestapo as a “ half-Jewish woman ” , she worked - together with Gertrud Luckner - for a time at the Freiburg Caritas Association . Since there were hardly any opportunities to escape after the beginning of the war , her plan to live in Palestine failed . After staying in Belgian and French monasteries , she returned to Freiburg in 1940 and was arrested there by the Gestapo shortly after her friend Gertrud Luckner in early 1943. Soon afterwards she was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp as "protective prisoner" No. 21747 . After the liberation in May 1945, she worked as a welfare worker in Luckenwalde until the end of 1946 , when she finally returned to St. Lioba in early 1947 . Until 1974 she worked as a religion teacher in Freiburg and Singen .
In July 2004, the artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in front of the St. Lioba Monastery (Riedbergstrasse 1) in memory of Eva Laubhardt .
literature
- Elisabeth Prégardier , Anne Mohr (ed.): Singing from the furnace. Ravensbrück women's concentration camp 1939–1945 . Plöger, Annweiler 2002. ISBN 978-3-89857-068-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eva leaves Hardt Biography on tolpersteine-in-freiburg.de , accessed on May 28, 2019]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laubhardt, Placida |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laubhardt, Eva (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Christian resistance fighter, pastor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zehlendorf b. Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 4, 1998 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |