13 Facts About Charlotte Bischoff

Charlotte Bischoff was a German Communist and Resistance fighter against National Socialism.

Charlotte Bischoff's father was Alfred Wielepp, who was the responsible editor of the Vorwarts before the First World War.

Charlotte Bischoff was shot on 3 May 1945 by the SS, as he tried to save himself on the prison ship Cap Arcona when it was bombed by the British and began to sink.

Charlotte Bischoff went to Moscow in 1934, where until 1937, she worked for the International Relations department of the Communist International.

Charlotte Bischoff was sent to Stockholm, where important leaders of the KPD were then in exile.

Charlotte Bischoff was arrested there in 1939 as an illegal and was threatened with deportation to Germany, but was released.

Charlotte Bischoff then worked for the International Red Aid taking care of emigrated German Communists, collecting money and having discussions with unionized construction workers on construction sites in Sweden.

In 1941, on behalf of the exiled leadership of the KPD, then under Herbert Wehner, Charlotte Bischoff was successful in entering Germany illegally on board a freight ship.

Charlotte Bischoff then worked in Berlin with various resistance groups, especially with Red Orchestra-connected groups, such as with people involved with Kurt and Elisabeth Schumacher, with the group around Wilhelm Knochel and around Robert Uhrig.

Charlotte Bischoff worked on the magazine, Die Innere Front with the Saefkow-Jacob-Bastlein Organization.

Charlotte Bischoff was one of the few members of the German Resistance able to evade arrest and she remained in Berlin, unknown, until the war's end.

Charlotte Bischoff obtained a secretarial position with the Soviet occupation forces in May 1945.

Charlotte Bischoff then worked at a succession of jobs with the Free German Trade Union Federation.