Rosa Lindemann

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Rosa Lindemann (born February 21, 1876 in Spandau , † June 13, 1958 in Staaken ) was a German communist resistance fighter .

Short biography of Rosa Lindemann in the exhibition “Set in front of the door”, which was shown in Berlin-Lichtenberg

Life

Born on the outskirts of Berlin, Rosa Liesegang came to Berlin-Moabit with her parents . Her father had taken a job there as a guard. Liesegang did not learn a trade. She worked as a trained saleswoman in a textile goods store. In 1895 she married Karl Lindemann. On May 1, 1909, both became members of the SPD .

During the First World War , Lindemann joined the USPD . With their left wing, she moved to the KPD in 1920 , where she took on several functions, including as local women’s leader. At the same time, Lindemann was involved in the Red Aid of Germany (RHD) and the International Workers Aid (IAH). From 1920/21 and 1932/33 Lindemann was a member of the KPD in the city council of Greater Berlin . At the same time, she was a district councilor in Berlin-Tiergarten in the 1920s and early 1930s .

After the National Socialists came to power , Lindemann became involved in a resistance group in Berlin-Tiergarten against the Nazi regime. In the resistance group, in which Bernhard Zessin , Erwin Hanke , Ida Pacholke , Martha Böse , Hedwig König and Ottilie Pohl , among others , were active, an above-average number of women are said to have been active. The illegal group raised funds for persecuted communists and their families. The communists also distributed pamphlets. Lindemann is also said to have worked with the resistance group around Anton Saefkow . Lindemann had to endure numerous harassment of Nazi persecutors, including several house searches and interrogations.

Lindemann's husband died at the end of 1944. Her son Erich was presumably killed in fighting near Nauen in the last days of the war .

After the end of the Second World War , Lindemann initially worked as a clerk in the “Office for Social Welfare” in Finkenkrug . In 1946 she retired and was active in the local politics of the KPD and later the SED in Berlin-Moabit . Because of her poor health, Lindemann moved to live with her daughter in Falkensee in 1953 . She died in a nursing home in Staaken near Berlin.

Literature / sources

  • Active Museum Association V. (Ed.): Put in front of the door. Berlin city councilors and members of the magistrate persecuted under National Socialism from 1933 to 1945 , Berlin 2006, p. 272 ​​f.
  • Landesarchiv Berlin , inventory C Rep. 118-01, No. 19504 (documents in connection with recognition as a "victim of fascism").
  • History workshop of the Berlin association of former participants in the anti-fascist resistance, victims of the Nazi regime and surviving dependents (BV VdN) e. V. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon , Volume 5. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89626-355-2 , p. 93 (short biography).
  • Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : Resistance in Mitte and Tiergarten, Vol. 8 of the series of publications on the resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 , ed. from the German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin 1994, pp. 118, 149 ff.

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