Erika von Brockdorff

Erika Countess Brockdorff born Schönfeldt ( born April 29, 1911 in Kolberg, Pomerania, † May 13, 1943 in Berlin- Plotzensee ) was a German resistance fighter. Countess of Brockdorff belonged to the Red Orchestra resistance movement.

Life

Erika Schönfeldt came from Kolberg on the Baltic coast of Pomerania. From 1929, after the completion of GCSEs and a domestic science school, she worked in Berlin as domestic workers and office personnel. In 1937 she married the visual artist Cay Hugo Graf von Brockdorff and shortly after her daughter Saskia was born.

She worked as an employee in the Reich Office for Occupational Safety and Industrial Safety Museum in Berlin- Charlottenburg.

As of 1941, Erika Countess Brockdorff their apartment in the Wilhelmshöherstraße 17 of the resistance group led by Hans Coppi for radio trials. On 16 September 1942, she was arrested and taken to the women's prison in the Charlottenburg Kant Straße 79. She was sentenced by the Reich Court to ten years in prison. At the urging of Hitler, the sentence was commuted to a sentence of death in January 1943. On the evening of May 13, 1943, she was beheaded together with 13 other people in the criminal prison in Berlin - Plotzensee.

Honors

• On 25 May 2011, the eastern forecourt at Berlin Southern Cross station was named after her.
• In 1969, she was posthumously awarded the Soviet Order of Patriotic War.

Stumbling block in front of the house, Wilhelmshöherstraße 17 in Berlin- Friedenau

Erika Countess von Brockdorff- space