Eva Hermann
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May 24, 1900[1]
- Eva Hermann-Lueddecke
- Eva Hermann-Lüddecke
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| Born | Eva Emilie Anna Elise Lüddecke May 24, 1900[1] |
| Died | 31 July 1997 (aged 97)[1] |
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| Known for | Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust |
| Spouse | Carl H. Hermann |
| Relatives | Grete Hermann (sister-in-law) |
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Eva Hermann (née Lüddecke; May 24, 1900 — July 31, 1997) was a German teacher, writer, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. She and her husband were arrested and imprisoned for harboring a Jewish family by the Nazi police. For their work rescuing Jews, they were awarded by Yad Vashem the Righteous Among the Nations.
Hermann was born in Grünenplan[2] to Protestant parents Ewald, a pastor, and Elisabeth.[1] She had one brother. She attended boarding school in Döbeln, where she lived from age 13 until she was 21. She then moved to Berlin-Dahlem to work as a private tutor.[3] In 1923, she joined the Protestant youth movement, where she met Carl H. Hermann,[2] a physicist who was working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fiber Chemistry.[4] They were married and later adopted two children from whom they were separated for many years during World War II (WWII).[1][4]
They became pacifists[5] during the rise of Adolf Hitler's power in Germany, joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation and relocated to Mannheim. In 1933, at the onset of Nazi Germany, with Wilhelm Mensching, she dissolved the fellowship in Germany and joined the Quakers in Europe.[3] Carl remained an agnostic for two years,[4] before joining in 1935.[6]: 71
Hermann's sister-in-law, mathematician and philosopher Grete Hermann, had to flee to Denmark and Britain for her involvement with Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund and anti-fascist political writings until the end of WWII.[7] After unsuccessfully attempting to obtain an appointment abroad, Hermann's husband accepted a position at IG Farben working under Rudolf Brill as a crystallographer.[4]
