Lina Haag

Lina Haag (born hunters; born January 18, 1907 in Hagkling, former municipality of age Berg, Wuerttemberg, † June 18, 2012 in Munich) was a German resistance fighter.

Life

Lina Hunter's mother worked as a maid, her father as a laborer. He was a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany at ( USPD ) and brought his daughter in the Communist Youth League of Germany ( KJVD ). Your future husband Alfred Haag, who had also grown up in modest circumstances, she met around 1920 in KJVD know.

In the era of National Socialism Lina Haag was for years held in various prisons and concentration camps, as in the first women's concentration camp of God cell in Schwäbisch Gmünd. They were condemned to death Liselotte Herrmann eight painkillers, which she had been saving himself.

After her release, she managed to get through to Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer- SS and Chief of the German Police, and to work there for the release of her husband Alfred Haag. Hague, 1930 elected as the youngest deputy Communist Party in the state parliament, was sitting in a concentration camp Mauthausen. Lina Haag succeeded. Her husband, however, was sent to the Eastern Front and only returned in 1948 from a Soviet POW camp.

Lina and Fred Haag led many persecuted by the Nazi regime under with him, for example, Oskar Maria Graf, the only was out of his New York exile to Visit in Germany. In 2007 she received the Dachau Award for courage.

Awards

• 2007: Dachau Award for Civil Courage

Film

• Eye to eye ' with Himmler. A portrait of the resistance fighter Lina Haag. Mountain Film Production GmbH, 2005 Written and directed. Andreas Gruber