Anna Maximovitch

Anna Pavlovna Maximovitch (8 May 1901, Chernigov – c. 20 July 1943, Plötzensee Prison, Berlin) was a Russian aristocrat and neuropsychiatrist[a],[1] who became an informer and important member of the Red Orchestra organisation in France during World War II.

[4] In Paris, Maximovitch joined the French Army and trained as a nurse before taking part in the Great Syrian Revolt, in a campaign against the Druze during 1925–1926.

[1] Through her brother, she was introduced to Leopold Trepper in November 1940,[9] who at the time was the technical director of a Soviet espionage network in Europe.

Maximovitch also had a special arrangement with Bishop Emanuel-Anatole-Raphaël Chaptal de Chanteloup of Paris that gave her access to the Vatican.

[15] Maximovitch was arrested with her brother on 12 December 1942[16] at 14 rue Émile Zola in Choisy-le-Roi[1] by French police and taken to be interrogated at Rue des Saussaies by members of the Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle, a special Gestapo and Abwehr commission established to track down members of the Red Orchestra in France, Belgium and Low Countries.

[1] A trial was held on 8 March 1943 at 62–64 Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré by Luftwaffe Judge Manfred Roeder, where she was sentenced to death by decapitation.

Organisation diagram of the "Professor" as the 3rd group in Leopold Trepper organisation of seven groups. Professor was the alias of Johann Wenzel . The "Artzin" group was the 4th group in the Trepper organisation and was run by Maximovitch who collected intelligence from French clerical and royalist circles. The "Professor" group, a network run by brother Basile Maximovitch collected intelligence from German Wehrmacht and White Russian emigre groups