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- Resistance Fighter Lieselotte Fürst - Ramdohr, 1913
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Lieselotte Fürst-Ramdohr (October 11, 1913 - May 13, 2013) was a member of the Munich branch of the student resistance group White Rose in Nazi Germany. She was born in Aschersleben.
Ramdohr was a descendant of a merchant family from Aschersleben. After half a year in England and one year at the boarding school of Dr. Fritz Weiß in Weimar where her long year friendship with Falk Harnack began, she moved to Munich in 1934 to become a stage designer. From March 1935 to February 1936, she learned book illustration at the Wuerttembergische Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart. In 1936, she moved to Dresden to attend dance school until the Nazis closed it down. Ramdohr switched to a state - run school in Stuttgart, and later ran a private school in Heilbronn. She eventually married Otto Berndl, son of a Bavarian architect.
In the fall of 1941, she befriended Alexander Schmorell, Christoph Probst and Hans Scholl, and later Traute Lafrenz, Sophie Scholl and Willi Graf. After her husband was killed in Russia in May 1942, she began storing documents and a duplication apparatus in her flat in Neuhausen - Nymphenburg. In November 1942, she expanded the group's underground activities by joining forces with more powerful groups in Berlin such as the Kreisauer Kreis and the Christian resistance leader Dietrich Bonhoeffer through the help of Falk Harnack.
On March 2, 1943, Ramdohr was arrested, but was released for lack of evidence. Later that month, Heinrich Himmler ordered her arrested again and sentenced to death, but she managed to escape. Ramdohr married German born, Brazilian raised medical student Carl Gebhard Fürst (1920 - 2010) in February 1944 in Munich, and escaped to her hometown of Aschersleben, using the name Lieselotte Fürst.
Ramdohr survived the war and in 1948 fled with her four year old daughter, Doma - Ulrike, out of the Soviet occupation zone back to Bavaria, where she became a sports instructor in boarding schools in upper Bavaria. In 1995, she published her memoirs "Friendships in the White Rose".
- In 1996, Bavarian Broadcasting, BR, televised a biography of Ramdohr as a part of its series Lebenslinien. The director was Hans - Sirks Lampe.
- In 1995, Geschichtswerkstatt Neuhausen televised interviews with Ramdohr in the documentary Davon haben wir nichts gewusst... Neuhausen unter der Nazi - Zeit.
- In 2008, interviews with Ramdohr were featured in the documentary Die Widerständigen – Zeugen der Weißen Rose.