Ottilie Pohl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German politician, resistance fighter against Nazism
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Place of Birth: Schönwald, Brandenburg, Germany
About Ottilie Pohl
- Ottilie Pohl (née Levit, 14 November 1867 – 2 December 1943) was a German socialist politician and activist who participated in the German resistance to Nazism.
- She was born in Schönwald into a Jewish family.
- She worked as milliner and moved to Berlin.
- She married Wilhelm Pohl in 1893, they had two children; he died in 1915.In 1890, upon the end of Bismarck's Anti-Socialist Laws, she joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany and became their delegate in Berlin-Moabit.
- Being opposed to the First World War, she distributed the Spartacus Letters and in 1917 changed affiliations to the USPD.
- In 1920 she was elected city councillor for that party in Berlin-Tiergarten.
- She was a member of the Konsumgenossenschaft Berlin supervisory board.After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Pohl worked with a Rote Hilfe group to support victims of Nazi persecution and resistance fighters in prison or in hiding.
- The group also included Rosa Lindemann and other women.Pohl was arrested in August 1940 for aiding the German communist and resistance fighter Rudolf Hallmeyer.
- She was sentenced to 8 months in prison, upon her release in 1941 she continued to engage in underground political activities.
- On 19 November 1942 she was arrested by the Gestapo, her possessions were seized and she was deported to Theresienstadt, where she died the following year.Today, Ottilie Pohl is remembered with a memorial plaque (Beusselstr.
- 43).
- The former Ludendorffstraße in Tiergarten was renamed to Pohlstraße in her honour in 1947.
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