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Agnes Asche (13 December 1891 – 7 January 1966), also known as Agnes Bertram and Agnes Jünemann, was a German socialist who resisted the Nazis. A street in Hanover is named in her honor.

Biography

Asche became a widow when her first husband died during World War I. 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.

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.

In the middle of 1933, while known as Agnes Jünemann, she joined the communist-oriented Committee for Proletarian Unity [de] and worked to distribute Klassenkampf (Class Warfare), the illegal newspaper put out by Otto Brenner and Eduard Wald. On 11 September 1934 she was arrested for high treason and taken to the Hanover court prison for pre-trial detention. 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. She served her sentence in the Ziegenhain Prison near Kassel; she did not see her son for two and a half years.

After her release from prison in September 1937, she worked as a machine knitter. She remained active in resistance circles until the end of World War II.

At the end of 1943, she married Otto Asche, a local to the area who worked at the Braunschweig Coal Mine [de]; Otto Asche was elected as a socialist member to the town council of Offleben in 1946.

After World War II, she was a member of the Socialist Party of Germany, but she was expelled from the party in 1960.

Legacy

A street in Ricklingen in Hanover was named in her honor in 1990.

References

1. ^ Mlynek, Klaus (2002). "Asche, Agnes". Hannoversches biographisches Lexikon : von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (in German). Dirk Böttcher. Hannover: Schlütersche. p. 33. ISBN 3-87706-706-9. OCLC 231977507.
2. ^ "Liste der beizubehaltenden Straßennamen" (PDF). Hannover (in German). Wissenschaftliche Betrachtung namensgebender Persönlichkeiten in Hannover. September 29, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
3. ^ Mlynek, Klaus. (1986). Gestapo Hannover meldet--: Polizei- und Regierungsberichte für das mittlere und südliche Niedersachsen zwischen 1933 und 1937. Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Niedersachsen und Bremen. XXXIX, Niedersachsen 1933-1945 (in German). Vol. 1. Hildesheim: A. Lax. p. 237. ISBN 978-3-7848-3151-0.
4. ^ Zorn, Gerda. (1977). Widerstand in Hannover: gegen Reaktion u. Faschismus 1920-1946. Bibliothek des Widerstandes (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Röderberg-Verlag. pp. 191, 200–201. ISBN 978-3-87682-028-6.
5. Chmilewski, Rudi. Kuessner, Dietrich (ed.). "Die UWG (1946-1962)". Kirche von Unten: Alternatives aus der für die Braunschweiger Landeskirche (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-18.
6. Matwijow, Klaus. "Herzberg am Harz in alten Ansichten Band 3". Uitgeverij Europese Bibliotheek (in Dutch). p. 19. Retrieved 2021-04-18. Das Mandolinenorchester 'Edelweiß' in zünftiger Bayerntracht vor dem Englischen Hof im Jahre 1928. Mandolinenorchester hatten in Herzberg bis in die siebziger Jahre hinein eine lange Tradition. Die Musiker sind, in der hinteren Reihe von links: Otto Asche, Bruno Wenzel und Heinrich Wölk.
7. Nöthel, Oliver (July 15, 2005). "Wettberger Straßennamen A-J". Wettberger Straßennamen (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-18.
8. "Wissenschaftliche Betrachtung von namensgebenden Persönlichkeiten in Hannover". Hannover (in German). September 2018. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
9. "Beirat empfiehlt die Umbenennung von zehn Straßen". Hannover (in German). 2015. Retrieved 2021-04-18.

• 1891 births
• 1966 deaths
• German resistance members
• German women activists
• German socialists
• People from Hanover
• 20th-century German women