Margarete Bothe
Margarete Bothe is a historical place of remembrance in Leipzig, connected with a student, teacher and historian who resisted Nazi ideology. Her Leipzig story begins in 1939, when she continued studying German, history and geography at the university.
She attended lectures by Otto Vossler, Hans Georg Gadamer and Hermann August Korff, while joining students critical of the regime. In 1944, she completed a doctorate on morality and politics in Kant, Fichte, Herder and Hegel. Quotations from Kant and Herder gave the dissertation a clear intellectual contrast to the ruling ideology. Arrested on 1 December 1944, she faced accusations involving foreign radio broadcasts and friendships with regime opponents. A court acquitted her in February 1945, but the Gestapo transferred her to custody in Wächterstraße prison. On 12 April, she was among 52 prisoners executed at the Lindenthal drill ground. Her ashes were later transferred to the city cemetery in Merseburg.
Leipzig keeps her memory visible through a Stolperstein, the university’s Book of Honor and a library memorial plaque. A street in Gohlis also bears her name.
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