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Rose Schlösinger (5 October 1907 – 5 August 1943) was a German social worker and

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fighter against the Nazi regime. She was associated with the Red Orchestra (''Rote Kapelle'') resistance group and passed along encrypted messages from

Arvid Harnack Arvid Harnack (; 24 May 1901 in Darmstadt – 22 December 1942 in Berlin) was a German jurist, Marxist economist, Communist, and German resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. Harnack came from an intellectual family and was originally a humanist. He ...

. She was arrested in October 1942, sentenced to death by the Reich War Tribunal, and executed in August 1943.

Early life and family

Rose Ennenbach was born in Frankfurt am Main on 5 October 1907 to a working-class family. She was raised by a single mother, Sophie Ennenbach, who had some prominence as a member of the

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties For ...

. Rose was active with the Socialist Workers Youth Party (''Sozialistischen Arbeiterjugend'') and studied to be a kindergarten teacher, training in childcare and job counseling at the Frankfurt Welfare School. She married Friedrich Heinemann and in January 1932 gave birth to their daughter, Marianne. They divorced soon afterwards and Rose returned to live with her mother. She interned with a social station after passing her exams, but was unable to gain employment as a social worker after the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933. She then learned shorthand and secured a job as a typist at the Wanderer Continental Typewriter Works in

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Resistance during World War II

In 1936 Rose married Bodo Schlösinger, a translator who was part of an anti-Nazi group headed by

. The pair aided the underground resistance and by 1937 she was working with communists from Berlin associated with the Red Orchestra. She forwarded encrypted messages from Harnack to radio operator

Hans Coppi Hans-Wedigo Robert Coppi (25 January 1916 – 22 December 1942) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazis. He was a member of a Berlin-based anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Gestapo. Lif ...

. After the resistance group was discovered by Nazi intelligence, she was arrested in October 1942. The Reich War Tribunal gave her a death sentence on 20 January 1943. Her husband killed himself after learning of the sentence. Schlösinger was beheaded with a guillotine on 5 August 1943 at

Plötzensee Prison Plötzensee Prison (german: Justizvollzugsanstalt Plötzensee, JVA Plötzensee) is a juvenile prison in the Charlottenburg-Nord locality of Berlin with a capacity for 577 prisoners, operated by the State of Berlin judicial administration. The d ...

in Berlin. In 1969, Schlösinger was posthumously awarded the Soviet

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Farewell letter

Shortly before her execution, Schlösinger wrote a farewell letter to her daughter Marianne.

Early life and family

Resistance during World War II

Farewell letter

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