Martha Ruben-Wolf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Martha Ruben-Wolf

Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1887

Place of Birth: Löhne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 16-Aug-1939

Profession: gynaecologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Martha Ruben-Wolf (17 June 1887 – 16 August 1939) was a German physician and author who became a political activist (KPD) after World War I.After the Nazi take-over in January 1933 she emigrated with her family, ending up living permanently in the Soviet Union.
A series of disappointments followed and she became increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system which earlier, when she had written about the Soviet Union as a visitor from the west, she had eulogised.
Her husband was identified as a Gestapo spy and executed in 1938.
On 16 August 1939 Martha Ruben-Wolf was still unaware of what had happened to her husband following his arrest on 27 November 1937 when, despairing, she committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.