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Paula Rueß

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Paula Rueß (born Paula Kopp: 3 May 1902 - 8 August 1980) was a German political activist (KPD). Forced into exile by the Nazi takeover, during the early 1940s she worked with the French Resistance.[1][2]

Leben

Paula Kopp was born in Lichtensteig, a small town in the Swiss Canton of St. Gallen, a short distance from the three-way frontier with Germany and Austria. At the age of 21 she was already a member of the Communist Party of Germany. From 1928 she was working at Berlin in the secretariat at the international office of the Young Communists. From here she moved on to a job with the party central committee's own secretariat.

She married Hermann Nuding in 1923 or 1925. The the Nazi takeover in January 1933 was quickly followed by the switch to a one-party state, and at the end of February 1933, following the Reichstag fire, Hermann Nuding was among the first of a large batch of German Communists to be arrested and placed in "protective custody".[3] Political work was now illegal and, as a paid official of the Communist Party, Paula Nuding accordingly lost her job and faced state persecution. She escaped via Copenhagen to France where Paris was rapidly becoming an ad hoc headquarters for the German Communist Party in exile.[1] In Paris she worked on distribution for the "illegally" produced German language Communist newspaper "Volk und Vaterland" and for the Comintern.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Dr. Gudrun Silberzahn-Jandt (18 October 2010). "Paula Rueß - Widerstandskämpferin". Staatsanzeiger für Baden-Württemberg GmbH, Stuttgart. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  2. ^ Robert Steigerwald (28 June 2002). "Staatsanzeiger für Baden-Württemberg GmbH". Buchempfehlung: Paula und Hans Rueß. DKP-Parteivorstand, Essen ("Unsere Zeit"). Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  3. ^ Bernd-Rainer Barth. "Nuding, Hermann * 3.7.1902, † 31.12.1966 KPD/SED-Funktionär". Wer war wer in der DDR? (The appropriate extract from "Handbuch der Deutschen Kommunisten" by Hermann Weber and Andreas Herbst is published on the same webpage.). Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur,Berlin. Retrieved 21 September 2016.

Further reading

  • Heidi Großmann: Paula Rueß - Kommunistin und Widerstandskämpferin. In: Friedrich Pospiech (Hrsg.): Unbelehrbar auf der Wahrheit beharrende... Paula und Hans Rueß Pahl-Rugenstein-Verlag: Köln 2002
  • Heidi Großmann: Paula Rueß – Kommunistin und Widerstandskämpferin. In: Stadt Esslingen (Hg.): WeiblichES. Frauengeschichte gesucht und entdeckt. Esslingen 1999, pp. 89-112.
  • Frauen aus Deutschland in der französischen Résistance. Reihe Arbeiterbewegung: Forschungen, Dokumente, Biografien, compiler-editor Ulla Plener. Berlin 2005 ISBN 3-929390-80-9 p 120ff
  • Friedrich Pospiech: Unbelehrbar auf der Wahrheit Beharrende...: Paula und Hans Ruess: zwei Leben im Widerstand gegen Krieg und Faschismus. Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag Nachfolger: Bonn 2002
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