Maria Terwiel

Maria Terwiel (actually Rosemarie Terwiel; born June 7, 1910 in Boppard, † August 5, 1943 in Berlin- Plotzensee ) was a Catholic resistance fighter against National Socialism. They belonged to the circle of the Red Orchestra.

Life

The daughter of a high government official ( John Terwiel, * 1882 in Rheinberg, Catholic Social Democrat and later a teacher in Boppard and then at Posen) and a Jewish mother ( Rosa Terwiel ) completed grammar school in Stettin in 1931 from the High School. Then took up the study of law in Freiburg (Breisgau ) and Munich. During her studies she met her future fiancé Helmut Himpel know. But on the basis of the Nuremberg Laws was Maria Terwiel as " half Jewish ", so they had no chance of getting a job as a trainee. It was and Helmut Himpel forbidden her to marry. After termination of studies, she returned to her family now lives in Berlin, and later moved along with Helmut Himpel. In a German -Swiss textile company she found a job as a secretary.

The devout Catholic supported together with Hans Helmuth Himpel hidden Jews by procured them identity cards and ration cards. It originated contacts to the resistance group Rote Kapelle by Harro Schulze- Boysen. Terwiel wrote from illegal leaflets and brought sticky notes to the Nazi propaganda exhibition "The Soviet Paradise " at.

After her arrest on September 17, 1942 Maria Terwiel was sentenced to death by the Reich Court on 26 January 1943. After rejecting a plea for mercy by Adolf Hitler enforcement of the judgment was on August 4, 1943 arranged and carried out the execution by guillotine on the following day in Prison Berlin- Plotzensee.

Honors

  • The Terwielsteig in the Paul Hertz settlement near the execution site Plotzensee is named after her.
  • In the courtyard of the Humboldt University in Berlin -Mitte ( Unter den Linden 6 ) there is a memorial stone.
  • In her native town of Boppard, she was dedicated to Maria- Terwiel Street, and since 2009 a memorial plaque at the birthplace on Mainzer Straße 17 on the fate of the teacher's daughter.
  • In Lüneburg Maria- Terwiel street bears her name.
  • In Karlsruhe the Maria Terwiel street bears her name.
  • In Leverkusen, Maria- Terwiel Street bears her name.
  • In Rheinberg, a street was named in a development area to Maria Terwiel.
  • On March 13, 2012, laid before the former home in Berlin- Charlottenburg, Lietzenburgerstrasse 72, a stumbling block for Maria Terwiel.
Red Orchestra (espionage) Catholicism Harro Schulze-Boysen Flyer (pamphlet) Mitte (locality) Hans Coppi, Jr. Stefan Roloff Integrated Authority File
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