Luise Kraushaar was a German political activist who became a Resistance campaigner against National Socialism and who, after she left Germany, worked in the French Resistance.
14 Facts About Luise Kraushaar
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Luise Kraushaar was born in Berlin where her father worked as a graphic artist and painter.
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In 1919 Kraushaar joined one of the Freie sozialistische Jugend movements proliferating in the political and social turbulence that followed the end of the war.
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Luise Kraushaar joined the ZdA in 1923 and in 1924, the year of her nineteenth birthday, she became a member of Communist Party itself.
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Luise Kraushaar attended a Lyceum and completed a commercial training, which she was able to combine with trades union organisational activities in the ZdA.
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Around 1930, Luise Kraushaar took a secretarial post with the Communist Party, working for Leo Roth, a party officer identified in some quarters as "Viktor", with links to Moscow.
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Luise Kraushaar is described in one source as the nationwide head of the German Communist Party's Industrial Reporting Agency.
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The sisters went out to work during the day, so that for most of the time she was working in it Luise Kraushaar had the apartment to herself.
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Luise Kraushaar undertook secretarial work for Bahnik until she emigrated in early 1934, at which point her secretarial duties in Berlin were taken over by Erna Eifler, who would be murdered by gunshot at Ravensbruck in 1944.
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In March 1934, Luise Kraushaar escaped to Prague, moving on shortly afterwards to Moscow where she was employed in the Comintern News Service.
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Luise Kraushaar was arrested in May 1940 and detained by the French authorities at the Gurs internment camp in the south of the country.
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In November 1943 Luise Kraushaar moved her own base to Marseilles, continuing her work for the German Communist Party in exile as a contributor to a newspaper entitled "Unser Vaterland".
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The war ended, formally in May 1945, and Luise Kraushaar returned to the Soviet occupation zone in what remained of Germany.
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Luise Kraushaar subsequently worked for a long time as a consultant with the East German Culture Ministry.