Mathilde Klose

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Mathilde Klose 1913

Mathilde "Tilde" Klose (born December 22, 1892 in Solingen ; † February or March 1942 in Bernburg (Saale) ) was a German trade unionist . She was murdered by the National Socialists in 1942 .

Life

Mathilde Klose was born as the eldest daughter in a middle-class family; her father was director of the Solingen public utility company. Klose had a younger brother. Klose first attended the Lyceum , where her talent for foreign languages ​​was shown early on. In 1909 she went to Paris with the support of her parents, but when her father died unexpectedly, she returned to Solingen. Klose spent the years up to 1914 in Paris and London, where she paid for her own living. She joined the SPD even before the First World War .

After her return from abroad, she worked as a foreign correspondent in Düsseldorf and then in The Hague . After three years she returned from The Hague and then worked for the Mannesmannröhren Group . In 1931 Klose joined the KPD . She was also involved in the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) and, together with colleagues in the pipe association, founded an RGO employee group in 1932. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists was Alfred Fuhrmann , head of RGO-operation group, arrested and in KZ Börgermoor detained. Klose continued to lead the group until she was arrested on October 4, 1934.

At the beginning of March 1935, she and 70 other comrades were sentenced to four years in prison in a mass trial for “preparation for high treason ” . She spent them in the Gotteszell and Aichach penitentiaries . After serving her sentence, she was in " protective custody taken" and first in the Women - Lichtenburg concentration camp brought. The Ravensbrück concentration camp followed in 1938 . In 1942 she was finally taken to the Bernburg sanatorium , where she fell victim to Operation 14f13 and was gassed .

Honors

Stumbling block for Tilde Klose at Gasstrasse 22 in Solingen

In Bernburg (Saale) a Tilde-Klose-Strasse was named after her , in Düsseldorf the Tilde-Klose-Weg . The German Democratic Republic dedicated a stamp to her in 1959 . On February 7, 2006, a stumbling block was laid on her house at Gasstrasse 22 in Solingen . A stumbling block was also laid at Scharnhorststrasse 4 in Düsseldorf. In Solingen, too, a street name was suggested after her. The city of Solingen complied with this suggestion on December 17, 2013 and named a new access road to a new building area near the Solingen Vogelpark stop in the Ohligs district in honor of the murdered unionist.

Ulla Feldhaus published a 68-page biography about Klose in 2011.

literature

  • Joachim Arndt: Klose, Mathilde (1892–1941) . In: Siegfried Mielke (ed.): Trade unionists in the Nazi state: persecution, resistance, emigration . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-914-1 , p. 219-221 .
  • Joachim Arndt: Mathilde Klose . In: Siegfried Mielke, Günter Morsch (ed.): Be vigilant that night never falls over Germany again. Trade unionists in concentration camps 1933-1945 . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86331-031-8 , pp. 124-127 .
  • Ulla Feldhaus: Fearless - The life of Tilde Klose from Solingen . Custos Verlag, Solingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-943195-02-6 .
  • Sigrid Jacobeit; Lieselotte Thoms-Heinrich: Kreuzweg Ravensbrück: Life pictures of anti-fascist resistance fighters . Röderberg, Cologne 1987, DNB  870840878 .

Web links

  • Ralf Rogge / Armin Schulte: Tilde Klose , ed. from Solingen City Archives, May 30, 2005, last accessed on November 4, 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Joachim Arndt: Klose, Mathilde (1892–1941) . In: Siegfried Mielke (ed.): Trade unionists in the Nazi state: persecution, resistance, emigration . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-914-1 , p. 219-221 .
  2. ↑ a b Ralf Rogge / Armin Schulte: Tilde Klose. City Archives Solingen, accessed on November 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Bernd Bussang: Many personalities, but there are no roads. RP-Online , July 5, 2012, accessed March 22, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Ulla Feldhaus: Feartlos - The life of Tilde Klose from Solingen . Custos Verlag, Solingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-943195-02-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Klose, Mathilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klose, Tilde (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen
DATE OF DEATH February 1942 or March 1942
Place of death Bernburg