Ursel Hochmuth

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Ursel Hochmuth , also Ursel Ertel-Hochmuth ( pseudonym Ursula Puls ; * February 19, 1931 in Hamburg ; † February 25, 2014 ibid), was a German historian, documentary and author.

Life

Ursel Hochmuth's parents were communists, resistance fighters against National Socialism and anti-fascists. Her father was Walter Hochmuth , member of the Hamburg Parliament for the KPD , her mother was Katharina Jacob . She was married to the resistance fighter Franz Jacob for the second time and survived the concentration camp imprisonment. Hochmuth's stepfather, Franz Jacob, was executed in 1944.

Ursel Hochmuth became a member of the FDJ in 1945 and a member of the KPD in 1950. After completing secondary school, she moved to the GDR, where she made up her Abitur and studied German in Leipzig . After her return to Hamburg, her Leipzig state examination for teaching was not recognized, and so she worked full-time in the “youth work of the KPD, which had been forced into illegality”. In 1959 and 1962 she was one of the organizers of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Vienna and Helsinki.

Her first publication on the history of resistance against National Socialism, in which she addressed the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen group , appeared in the GDR in 1959 under the pseudonym Ursula Puls. In 1964 Hochmuth married Paul Ertel, whom she had met at a party training course in the GDR, and ended her full-time party work. The marriage resulted in two children, a daughter and a son, whom she continued to look after as a single mother after the divorce in 1969. Since 1970 she has worked as a documentary for the dpa .

Ursel Hochmuth was a member of the VVN-BdA , the Willi-Bredel-Gesellschaft and the board of trustees of the Ernst Thälmann memorial in Hamburg. Above all, she researched and published the history of communist resistance against National Socialism in Hamburg. She attached particular importance to a broad presentation, instead of highlighting certain management cadres, as is often the case.

Fonts

As an author

  • as Ursula Puls: The Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group . Reports on the anti-fascist resistance struggle in Hamburg and on the water's edge during the Second World War . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1959.
  • Does grass grow over it? Weltkreis-Verlag, Jugenheim 1960. (= The future age, volume 1)
  • Fascism and Resistance 1933–1945. A directory of German-language literature. Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt 1973.
  • Ursel Hochmuth, Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance. 1933-1945. Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt 1980, reprint of the 1969 edition, ISBN 3-87682-036-7 .
  • as Ursula Puls: The Legacy of the “ White Rose ”. Hamburg honor for Hans Leipelt and fellow students . In: The deed. Antifascist weekly newspaper . February 15, 1975. ISSN  0492-3502
  • Illegal KPD and the “Free Germany” movement in Berlin and Brandenburg 1942-1945. Biographies and testimonials from the resistance organization around Saefkow, Jacob and Bästlein. Hentrich and Hentrich, Teetz 1998, ISBN 3-933471-08-7 (= writings from the German Resistance Memorial Center, Series A, analyzes and representations, volume 4).
  • They survived the Moringen, Lichtenburg and Ravensbrück concentration camps. Directory of comrades from Germany who died after 1945. Camp community Ravensbrück Freundeskreis eV, Stuttgart 1999.
  • Nobody and nothing is forgotten. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89965-121-9
  • with Ursula Suhling: Ehrenfeld for those persecuted by the Nazi regime. A burial and memorial site of the Geschwister-Scholl-Foundation in the Ohlsdorf cemetery. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89965-526-1

As editor and editor

  • Fiete Schulze or the third judgment. Association of anti-fascists and those persecuted by the Nazi regime, Hamburg 1971.
  • Candidates of Humanity. Documentation on the Hamburg White Rose on the occasion of Hans Leipelt's 50th birthday . Association of anti-fascists and those persecuted by the Nazi regime, Hamburg 1971.
  • Gestapo prison in Fuhlsbüttel. VVN, Hamburg 1983.
  • Harry Naujoks : My Life in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp 1936–1942. Memories of the former camp elder . Röderberg Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987. ISBN 3-87682-836-8 (Licensed edition: Dietz, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-320-01313-0 )

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Cornelia Kerth: Obituary for Ursel Ertel-Hochmuth. In: antifa (magazine) of the VVN-BdA, supplement May / June 2014, p. 18, based on the commemorative speech by Herbert Diercks
  2. ↑ a b Cornelia Kerth: Obituary for Ursel Ertel-Hochmuth. In: antifa (magazine) of the VVN-BdA, supplement May / June 2014, p. 19
personal data
SURNAME Hochmuth, Ursel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Ursel (pseudonym); Puls, Ursula (pseudonym); Ertel-Hochmuth, Ursel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and anti-fascist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2014
Place of death Hamburg