Therese Wittrock

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Therese Wittrock in the inscription on the memorial court prison Hanover next to the pavilion

Therese Wittrock , née Tarnow, (born October 20, 1888 in Hanover , † October 24, 1957 Hanover) was a social democratic resistance fighter .

family

Therese Wittrock was the half-sister of the union official and Reichstag member (from 1928) Fritz Tarnow . Her husband Gottlieb and son Rudolf Wittrock were sentenced during National Socialism in the same trial as they were in 1937.

Life

After attending primary school, Therese Wittrock worked as a domestic servant for 8 years. On May 1, 1912, she joined the SPD and in the same year the Association of Domestic Workers . In 1913 she married her husband Gottfried Wittrock.

During the Weimar Republic , she was involved with the Red Falcons , the workers ' welfare and the parents' council of secular schools .

After 1933 Wittrock became a member of the Socialist Front resistance group . Arrested for the first time it was on 30 September 1936. In September 1937, she was arrested again: After their detention in court prison Hannover condemning the Hamm Court for conspiracy to commit high treason and unlawful possession of weapons to imprisonment of one year and 10 months ' imprisonment , which in Gelsenkirchen had to be served.

In the same process her son Rudolf was sentenced to 2 years and 10 months in prison, her husband Gottlieb Wittrock to one year and 2 months in prison.

After the Second World War , Therese Wittrock visited the city of Bristol in 1948 as a member of the “First Lower Saxony Women's Delegation ” .

Honors

  • On May 8, 1989, the court prison memorial was unveiled at the site of the former court prison in Hanover , which is intended to commemorate those who were persecuted there by the National Socialists. Therese Wittrock is mentioned in the memorial inscription .
  • In 1993 the Therese-Wittrock-Weg in Wettbergen was named after the resistance fighter.

literature

  • Herbert Obenaus , W. Sommer: Political prisoners in the Hanover judicial prison during the National Socialist rule. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 44 (1990), pp. 167-171
  • B. Rabe: The “Socialist Front”. Social Democrats against Fascism 1933–1936 , 1984
  • K. Theilen (edit.): Sozialistische Blätter 1933-1936. The organ of the social democratic resistance in Hanover , 2000
  • Klaus Mlynek : Wittrock, Therese. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 682.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see photo of the inscription on the memorial of the court prison
personal data
SURNAME Wittrock, Therese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Social democratic resistance fighter in the Socialist Front in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1957
Place of death Hanover