Anneliese Groscurth

Anneliese Groscurth (* 1910, † 1996 in Berlin- Charlottenburg) was a German physician and resistance fighter against the Nazis in the " European Union ".

Life

Anneliese Groscurth was, together with her husband George Groscurth and Robert Havemann, Herbert Richter and Mr. and Mrs. Paul and Margaret Rentsch to the founders of the resistance group European Union.

After the war, Anneliese Groscurth lived with their two sons, Peter and Jan in Wehrda, but returned back to the Charlottenburg Westend and worked as a doctor in the district's health department. On April 28, 1951, she participated in the founding of the Berlin Committee for a plebiscite in the whole of Germany against the re-militarization and for the conclusion of a peace treaty. On 9 May 1951, she was dismissed for political reasons from the public service because they committed against the rearmament. It was denounced as a communist and she was deprived of the passport, which she received back only in the 1960s.

When it during the World Festival of Youth and Students came to street battles of the FDJ in 1951 with the West Berlin police, she established a committee of inquiry, which was designated as Groscurth Committee.

Through sustainable boycott campaign of the Berlin tabloid press, led by the sponsored by the U.S. military administration daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, they could also add your own practice, her family did not feed more and she took a job at the Department of the Berliner Rundfunk. The widow's pension and the survivor pension OdF was also deprived of her. The payments of the orphan's pension for the two sons were hired. The legal wrangling that Anneliese Groscurth had to lead it, commented on the LaZ magazine with the statement: " Dealing with the GDR past has had forgotten after 1989, that there was in the West politically motivated violation of the law. "

Groscurth Committee

In connection with a police operation against participants of the III. World Festival of Youth and Students on 15th August 1951 in which there were numerous injuries, the Charlottenburg health officer Anneliese Groscurth turned with a call to the public to investigate the incidents. On August 28 1951 some public figures formed the " Groscurth Committee", which should clarify the causes and contexts of police action in a public hearing. In the following period, the Committee also took over the duties of the legal assistance of the Committee of the National Front of Democratic Germany and was constituted on October 2, 1951 under the name Groscurth Committee for the Protection of democratic rights and the defense of patriots in West Berlin. For his leadership was next to Anneliese Groscurth among other things, the lawyer Friedrich Karl Kaul. Legal assistance should primarily receive West Berliners, who were affected by police violence, political victimization and persecution or of prohibitions, but also in agitation inserts arrested SED and FDJ members.

Honors

• Since 11 August 2006, there are in Berlin- Westend to Anneliese and Georg- Groscurth Square