Ottilie Pohl

[1] In 1890, upon the end of Bismarck's Anti-Socialist Laws, she joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany and became their delegate in Berlin-Moabit.

Being opposed to the First World War, she distributed the Spartacus Letters and in 1917 changed affiliations to the USPD.

[1] Pohl was arrested in August 1940 for aiding the German communist and resistance fighter Rudolf Hallmeyer [de].

She was sentenced to 8 months in prison, upon her release in 1941 she continued to engage in underground political activities.

On 19 November 1942 she was arrested by the Gestapo, her possessions were seized and she was deported to Theresienstadt, where she died the following year.