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Barnimstrasse Women's Prison
Barnimstrasse women's prison was a women's prison that existed between 1868 and 1974 in Barnimstraße in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin, which belonged first to the Königsstadt and from 1920 to the Friedrichshain district. Building history In 1864, a new debtors' prison was built in Berlin's royal city, north-east of today's Alexanderplatz, under the direction of architects Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann and . After Prussia abolished imprisonment for debtors in May 1868, it was converted and extended to become the Royal Prussian Women's Prison. In the spring of 1910, the prison was expanded with some reconstruction of the internal structure that was completed by November 1913. A maternity ward and a mother-and-child ward were also built. It was the most modern prison in the city and offered space for 357 inmates, and could even be increased to 500. There was now a military hospital with 38 beds for sick prisoners. In addition, the architects added a three-storey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrichshain
Friedrichshain () is a quarter (''Ortsteil'') of the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany. From its creation in 1920 until 2001, it was a freestanding city borough. Formerly part of East Berlin, it is adjacent to Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg and Lichtenberg. Friedrichshain is named after the '' Volkspark Friedrichshain'', a vast green park at the northern border with Prenzlauer Berg. In the Nazi era, the borough was called '' Horst-Wessel-Stadt''. Friedrichshain is one of the trendy districts of Berlin and has experienced gentrification. Geography Friedrichshain is defined by the following roads and places, starting clock-wise in the west: Lichtenberger Straße, Mollstraße, Otto-Braun-Straße, Am Friedrichshain, Virchowstraße, Margarete-Sommer-Straße, Danziger Straße, Landsberger Allee, Hausburgstraße, Thaerstraße, Eldenaer Straße, S-Bahn-Trasse, Kynaststraße, Stralauer Halbinsel, Spree. History The largely working-class district was creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Leocádia Prestes
Anita Leocádia Benário Prestes (born 27 November 1936 in Berlin) is a German-Brazilian historian. She is the daughter of political activists Olga Benário Prestes and Luís Carlos Prestes. She was born in Barnimstraße Women's Prison in Berlin and was handed over to the care of her paternal grandmother, Brazilian Leocádia Prestes, at age 14 months. Her mother Olga was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp and from there to a former psychiatric hospital in Bernburg in 1942, where she was gassed. In 1964, Prestes achieved a degree in Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ... from the then "University of Brazil", now known as the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Two years later she gained a Masters in Organic Chemistry. Life in the USSR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Goetze
Ursula Goetze (29 March 1916 – 5 August 1943) was a Berlin student and resistance fighter, who participated in political opposition to the Nazi government in Germany. In May 1942, following involvement in a leafleting campaign, she was arrested and, some time later, sentenced to death. She died by decapitation with a guillotine. Life Provenance and early years Ursula Goetze was her parents' third recorded child, born into a middle-class family. Her father, Otto Goetze, ran a wallpaper factory. Later, her parents became hoteliers when Otto and Margarete Goetze took over the "Thüringer Hof" (hotel) in Berlin's Hedemannstraße ('' Hedemann Street''). Between 1922 and 1933 Ursula attended school in the Berlin quarters of Wilmersdorf and Neukölln. Unlike many fifteen year old schoolchildren, Goetze followed the political developments of the early 1930s with keen interest. Helped by like minded school friends and by her elder brother, Eberhard, she made contact with the Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharina Fellendorf
Katharina is a feminine given name. It is a German form of Katherine. It may refer to: In television and film: *Katharina Bellowitsch, Austrian radio and TV presenter * Katharina Mückstein, Austrian film director * Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director * Katherine Pierce, a character in '' The Vampire Diaries'' originally named Katharina Petrova. In artistry: * Katharina Fröhlich, lover of Franz Grillparzer * Katharina Rapp, German artist In other fields: * Katharina Baunach, German footballer * Katharina Dalton, British physician and pioneer in the research of premenstrual stress syndrome. * Katharina Klafsky, Hungarian operatic singer * Katharina von Bora, German Catholic nun who was an early convert to Protestantism. * Katharina von Zimmern (1478-1547), last abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey See also *320 Katharina Katharina (minor planet designation: 320 Katharina) is a small Main belt asteroid orbiting in the Eos family of asteroids, including 513 Cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Eisenblätter
Charlotte Eisenblätter (7 August 1903 – 25 August 1944) was a German anti-Nazi activist and freedom fighter. Biography Eisenblätter was born at Galvanistraße in Berlin. Youngest of eight, from a working-class family she worked as a clerk and secretary. When she was fifteen she joined the '' Friends of Nature'' organization. Eisenblätter got the opportunity to hike on weekends. Aware of the implications of poverty Eisenblätter made many friends in the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) which was eliminated when the National Socialist Party took power in 1933. During the Nazi era Eisenblätter got involved in the anti-Nazi communist resistance group associated with Robert Uhrig, Beppo Römer and John Sieg. She was responsible for disseminating the anti-regime leaflets, creating copies during a time that doing so was punishable by death. By 1939 she was a senior underground activist. By the summer of 1941, Eisenblätter was in contact with the KPD foreign representative Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Ebermann
Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) * Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje (1366–1425) * Anna of Cilli (1386–1416) * Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania (died 1418) * Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432–1462) * Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg (died 1514) * Anna, Duchess of Prussia (1576–1625) * Anna of Russia (1693–1740) * Anna, Lady Miller (1741–1781) * Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1783–1857) * Anna, Lady Barlow (1873–1965) * Anna (feral child) (1932–1942) * Anna (singer) (born 1987) Places Australia * Hundred of Anna, a cadastral district in South Australia Iran * Anna, Fars, a village in Fars Province * Anna, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province Russia * Anna, Voronezh Oblast, an urban locality in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilde Coppi
Betti Gertrud Käthe Hilda Coppi ( Rake; 30 May 1909 – 5 August 1943), known as Hilde Coppi, was a German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. She was a member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr, during the Nazi period. Life Betti Gertrud Käthe Hilda Rake was born in Berlin, and grew up in Mitte area of Berlin. Her mother ran a small leather shop. After finishing vocational school, she worked as a general practitioner's assistant through much of the 1930s. Career Coppi was working in Berlin as a clerk at the Reich Insurance Institute for Clerical Workers when she got to know Hans Coppi, who had only just been released from prison. By 1933, Rake had contact with members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Resistance Together, Hilde and Hans Coppi — who wed on 14 June 1941 — hid persecution victims of the Nazi régime. During the war, Hilde Coppi listened to "Voice of Russia" (''ie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva-Maria Buch
Eva-Maria Buch (31 January 1921 – 5 August 1943) was a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime in Germany associated with the Red Orchestra (''Rote Kapelle'') resistance group. Life Buch was born and lived with her parents in Charlottenburg, a borough of Berlin, until the mid-1930s. She was sent to the Ursuline School run by Catholic nuns until it was shut down in 1939. Without an ''Abitur'', she attended a seminar for interpreters at the University of Berlin. While working at a bookshop during 1941 and 1942, Buch became acquainted with Wilhelm Guddorf, through whom she became involved with the Red Orchestra. In autumn 1942, Buch attempted to hide Guddorf from a wave of Red Orchestra arrests, but she was arrested by the Gestapo on 11 October. Guddorf was arrested and sentenced to death soon thereafter. She was executed the following year, on 13 May 1943. Buch was charged and her case heard at the ''Reichskriegsgericht'' (Reich Military Tribunal) between February 1� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Von Brockdorff
Erika von Brockdorff (née Schönfeldt) (29 April 1911 – 13 May 1943) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazi régime during the Second World War. Brockdorff was a member of what the Reich Security Main Office termed the Red Orchestra resistance movement. Brockdorff was born in Kolberg (Kołobrzeg), Province of Pomerania, on Pomerania's Baltic Sea coast. Her father worked for the post office. From 1929, after finishing middle school and housekeeping school in Magdeburg, she worked in Berlin as a housekeeper and a model, and also, after additional training in shorthand typing, as an office specialist. In 1937, she married the sculptor Graf Cay–Hugo von Brockdorff, and shortly thereafter, their daughter Saskia was born. From 1941, Brockdorff put her flat at Hans Coppi's resistance movement's disposal as their radio headquarters (she was having an affair with Coppi at the time). She was soon arrested along with the other Red Orchestra members and sent to Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cato Bontjes Van Beek
Cato Bontjes van Beek (; 14 November 1920 – 5 August 1943) was a German member of the Resistance against the Nazi regime. Early years Born in Bremen, Cato was the eldest of three children. She spent her childhood and youth in the nearby Fischerhude artists' colony around her uncle Otto Modersohn. Her parents, the Dutch-born potter Jan Bontjes van Beek (1899–1969) and dancer and painter Olga Bontjes van Beek ( Breling; 1896–1995) offered their children considerable personal freedom while growing up. From 1929, Cato stayed abroad to attend the German school in Amsterdam, and in 1937, she spent time in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, as an au pair. Unlike many others, Cato did not join the League of German Girls (''Bund Deutscher Mädel'', BDM) youth organisation. Through her younger brother, Tim (1923-2013), she met ''Luftwaffe'' Sergeant Helmut Schmidt, the future Chancellor of Germany, who, from 1937, was stationed in Bremen-Vegesack for his military service and duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liane Berkowitz
Liane Berkowitz (7 August 1923 – 5 August 1943) was a German resistance fighter and was most notable for being a member of the Berlin-based pro-Soviet resistance group that coalesced around Harro Schulze-Boysen, that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr. Arrested and sentenced to death, she was executed shortly after she gave birth to a daughter in custody. Life Liane Berkowitz was born in Berlin, the daughter of conductor Victor Vasilyev and the singing teacher Catherine Jewsienko. Shortly before her birth, her parents had fled the Soviet Union. When Liane's father died, her mother Catherine married Henry Berkowitz, who immediately adopted Liane in 1930. The family lived on Viktoria-Luise-Platz in the Schöneberg district. Henry Berkowitz reportedly emigrated abroad after his divorce in 1939. The fate of Liane's mother is unknown. Red Orchestra Liane was fluent in German and Russian. Henry arranged for her education at the private ''Heilsche Abendschule'' g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Benario-Prestes
Olga may refer to: People and fictional characters * Olga (name), a given name, including a list of people and fictional characters named Olga or Olha * Michael Algar (born 1962), English singer also known as "Olga" Places Russia * Olga, Russia, an urban-type settlement in Primorsky Krai * Olga Bay, a bay of the Sea of Japan in Primorsky Krai * Olga (river), Primorsky Krai United States * Olga, Florida, an unincorporated community and census-designated place * Olga, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Olga, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Olga, Washington, an unincorporated community * Olga Bay, Alaska, a bay on the south end of Kodiak Island * Olga, a neighborhood of South Pasadena, California Elsewhere * Kata Tjuta, Northern Territory, Australia, also known as the Olgas, a group of domed rock formations ** Mount Olga, the tallest of these rock formations * Olga, Greece, a settlement * 304 Olga, a main belt asteroid Arts and entertainment * ''Olga'' (opera) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
