Английская Википедия:Agnes Asche
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Agnes Asche (13 December 1891 – 7 January 1966), also known as Agnes Bertram and Agnes Jünemann, was a German socialist who resisted the Nazis.[1][2] A street in Hanover is named in her honor.
Biography
Asche became a widow when her first husband died during World War I.[1] From 1919 to 1923, she was active in the Sozialverband Deutschland (Social Association of Germany), which assisted war veterans. She was first a volunteer and then became a consultant in the main pension office.[1]
In 1924, she became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, but by 1932 she was a member of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany.[1][2]
In the middle of 1933, while known as Agnes Jünemann, she joined the communist-oriented Шаблон:Interlanguage link and worked to distribute Klassenkampf (Class Warfare), the illegal newspaper put out by Otto Brenner and Eduard Wald.[1][3][4] On 11 September 1934 she was arrested for high treason and taken to the Hanover court prison for pre-trial detention.[1][2][3] In June 1935, she was sentenced to three years in prison by the Hamm Higher Regional Court as part of the larger procedure against Otto Brenner.[1][4] She served her sentence in the Ziegenhain Prison near Kassel; she did not see her son for two and a half years.[1]
After her release from prison in September 1937, she worked as a machine knitter.[1] She remained active in resistance circles until the end of World War II.[2]
At the end of 1943, she married Otto Asche, a local to the area who worked at the Шаблон:Interlanguage link; Otto Asche was elected as a socialist member to the town council of Offleben in 1946.[1][5][6]
After World War II, she was a member of the Socialist Party of Germany, but she was expelled from the party in 1960.[1]
Legacy
A street in Ricklingen in Hanover was named in her honor in 1990.[7][8][9][2]
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