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Elisabeth von Thadden
German resistance member (1890-1944)
Elisabeth Adelheid Hildegard von Thadden (29 July 1890 – 8 September 1944) was a German progressive educator and a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime as a member of the Solf Circle.
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She was sentenced to death for conspiring to commit high treason and undermining the fighting forces (Wehrkraftzersetzung).
Early life and family
Elisabeth von Thadden was born in Mohrungen, East Prussia (present-day Morąg, Poland) to the long-established noble Thadden family.
Her parents were Adolf Gerhard Ludwig von Thadden (1858–1932), Prussian county commissioner (Landrat) of Landkreis Greifenberg in Pomerania (now Powiat Gryficki in Poland), and Ehrengard von Gerlach (1868–1909).[1][2] She was the eldest of five children.
In 1905, the family moved to the Trieglaff (Trzygłów) estate in Pomerania, where Thadden grew up in a big Protestant family.
Elisabeth's brother, Reinold (1891–1976), grew up