Marion Yorck von Wartenburg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German resistance fighter
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Marion Yorck von Wartenburg
- Marion Gräfin Yorck von Wartenburg (née Winter; 14 June 1904 – 13 April 2007) was a German activist, lawyer, jurist, and author.
- She was a resistance fighter against the Nazis and member of the Kreisau Circle.
- Marion Winter was born in Berlin, the third of six children of a civil servant who had charge of the administration of the national theatres.
- She was educated at the Grunewald-Gymnasium in Berlin (now the Walther-Rathenau-Oberschule).
- A fellow student was future theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
- She studied jurisprudence and earned her Juris Doctor in 1929.
- She completed a doctorate and began to train as an assistant judge that year. In 1930, she married Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, a cousin of Claus von Stauffenberg.
- Yorck, also a lawyer, was a descendant of the Prussian field marshal whose defiance of Napoleon had freed his country from the French yoke.
- Together with her husband, Marion was active with the Kreisau Circle, an opposition group against the National Socialist regime, in 1933.
- Her husband was executed after the bungled assassination attempt on Hitler, and Marion spent three months in prison.
- She was jailed again in Poland for another three months and beaten by communist guards who refused to accept that she was not a Nazi.After World War II, Yorck worked in East Berlin as a jurist.
- In 1946, she was nominated as a judge at Amtsgericht Lichterfelde in West Berlin by the Allies.
- In 1952, she became the first female head of a juried court, and, in 1969, she led the 9th Große Strafkammer of the regional superior court in Berlin.
- In 1984 she published a brief memoir, Die Stärke der Stille, translated into English in 2000 as The Power of Solitude.
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