Susanne Hirzel

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Susanne Zeller , née Hirzel (born August 7, 1921 in Untersteinbach ; † December 4, 2012 ) was a friend of Sophie Scholl and through her and her brother Hans Hirzel came to the " White Rose " resistance group during the Nazi era .

Life

Susanne Hirzel, daughter of the Ulm pastor Ernst Hirzel and granddaughter of the geographer Robert Gradmann , was initially an enthusiastic member of the Association of German Girls , but increasingly distanced herself from those in power. From 1932 onwards, Susanne Hirzel attended the humanistic grammar school, today's Humboldt grammar school in Ulm . One of her classmates was Jörg Zink , who would later become one of the most famous personalities of Protestantism in post-war Germany. Several later members of the White Rose resistance group emerged from this grammar school : In addition to Hans Scholl, the several years younger members of the "Ulm high school graduate group" Hans Hirzel , Franz J. Müller , Heinrich Guter and Heinz Brenner .

“ The People's Court noticed that three pupils (including Heinrich Guter) from a school class appear in this matter and that more were mentioned! Something must not be right, which is in the spirit of this class and which the Senate cannot blame these boys alone. One is ashamed that there is such a class at a German humanistic grammar school! "

- From the judgment of the People's Court in the second trial against the White Rose, April 19, 1943

At the end of 1942 she was approached by Sophie Scholl as a music student and asked to resist. At the end of January, she followed her brother Hans' request and put the enveloped fifth “White Rose” leaflet into mailboxes in Stuttgart . This highly secret action was prepared together with Franz J. Müller in the Martin Luther Church in Ulm behind the organ prospect. The father Ernst Hirzel was the parish priest at this church at that time.

After the arrest and execution of the Scholl siblings , she too was arrested and in the second trial, in which Kurt Huber , Willi Graf and Alexander Schmorell were sentenced to death by the People's Court under Roland Freisler, sentenced to six months in prison because they knew what had happened Leaflets could not be detected.

After the collapse of the National Socialist dictatorship in 1945, Susanne Zeller was a cello teacher. At the same time, she was the author of a widespread, multi-volume violoncello school, many of which were published by Bärenreiter-Verlag .

Like her brother Hans, a functionary of the party Die Republikaner and its Federal President candidate, Susanne Hirzel was active in right-wing conservative circles, among others also with the Republicans . In her memoirs “A Swabian Youth” she writes, among other things, that the Allies “wanted to exterminate as many Germans as possible” during their air raids on German cities , and that the German concentration camps followed the “example” of Stalin and the British in the Boer War . She also gave an interview to Junge Freiheit in 2002 and the anti-Islamic blog Politically Incorrect (PI) in 2010 . She last lived in Stuttgart and was actively involved in the citizens' movement Pax Europa (BPE) against the alleged Islamization of Germany.

Zeller is portrayed in the White Rose Memorial in Ulm .

Works

  • From yes to no. A Swabian youth 1933 to 1945 . Silberburg-Verlag , Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-87407-368-8 .
  • Violoncello school ; Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1960ff. (2009 19 ); ISMN 979-0-006-43927-0 (volume 1.1)

literature

  • Rainer Oechslen: The “White Rose” and Islam. Protocol of instrumentalization ; in: Deutsches Pfarrerblatt. 111. 2011, pp. 29–36 [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Weisse Rose Foundation about the Ulm high school graduate group ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weisse-rose-stiftung.de
  2. ↑ Susanne Hirzel, Violoncello-Schule, booklet I-III, course for beginners and advanced students up to the 7th position, edition number BA 3741
  3. ↑ See the interview Hirzel: The “White Rose” and the Counter-Jihad ; PI, October 8, 2009
  4. ↑ Werner van Bebber: CDU argues about critics of Islam in its own ranks . In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 24, 2009.
  5. ↑ From the White Rose to the Republicans. www.merkur-online.de, April 24, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Hirzel, Susanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Susanne Zeller-Hirzel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter, member of the White Rose resistance movement
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Untersteinbach (Pfedelbach)
DATE OF DEATH December 2012