Kurt Ludwig Josef Maria Lingens (31 May 1912 – 1966) was a German anti-fascist militant and physician.
[1] In 1939, the Lingenses met and became friends with Baron Karl von Motesiczky, an anti-Nazi whose mother was Jewish, and who until that time had – like Ella – studied medicine in the University of Vienna.
Motesiczky invited the Lingenses to live in a large house he owned in the Vienna suburb of Hinterbrühl during the summer months.
[3] On 13 October 1942, the Lingenses and Motesiczky were arrested because they financially supported members of the Polish resistance and because they distributed faked IDs.
[3] They, some of their collaborators, and some people they'd helped had been betrayed by their "friend", Rudolf Klinger, a Jewish former stage actor who was later proven to be a Nazi informant.
After a short custody Kurt Lingens was transferred to a penalty military unit comprising soldiers who were sent to the Russian front as a form of punishment for various crimes.