Inge Viermetz
Inge Viermetz | |
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 Viermetz in Allied internment | |
| Born | March 7, 1908 |
| Died | April 23, 1997 (aged 89) |
| Occupation | Reporter |
| Known for | Responsible for the Lebensborn in Nazi Germany |
Inge Viermetz (7 March 1908 – 23 April 1997
Biography
Personal life and career
Viermetz studied between 1914 and 1918 at the primary school in Aschaffenburg, and then at a school of higher learning, where she obtained a bachelor's degree. Holding a business degree in 1923, she worked as a reporter from that time to 1932. She married that year, and moved to Austria. She returned to Germany in 1935 and she worked until 1938 in a textile factory in Augsburg, and then as a secretary at a horse racetrack in Munich. She divorced in 1936 and remarried in 1939.
In 1937 she became a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare, the National Socialist Women's League and Reichskolonialbund.
Lebensborn
After a brief period of unemployment, Viermetz found a job in the
From December 1942 until the summer of 1943, Viermetz was commissioner of the Lebensborn for Belgium and Northern France and the Ardennes, and ran an establishment at Wégimont. During the summer of 1943, it was set aside due to financial irregularities and dismissed on December 21 of the same year. She lived in Munich but then was discharged in February 1944 at Winhöring following the course of the war.
Post-war
At the end of the war, in July 1945, Viermetz was arrested and incarcerated. In January 1946, she was released, first living in
She was recognized as
References
- ^ Präzise Lebensdaten nach JDG-Datenbank
- ^ Volker Koop: Dem Führer ein Kind schenken – die SS-Organisation "Lebensborn" e.V., Köln 2007, p. 227ff
Bibliography
- Andrea Böltken: Führerinnen im Führerstaat: Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Trude Mohr, Jutta Rüdiger und Inge Viermetz. Centaurus-Verlag, Pfaffenweiler 1995, Forum Frauengeschichte Bd. 18, ISBN 3-89085-926-7.
- Kathrin Kompisch: Täterinnen. Frauen im Nationalsozialismus, Böhlau Verlag, Köln 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20188-3.
- Volker Koop: Dem Führer ein Kind schenken – die SS-Organisation "Lebensborn" e.V.. Böhlau Verlag, Köln 2007; 306 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-412-21606-1.
External links
- Der Lebensborn e.V. (PDF-File; 51 kB)
- Dr. Teschs Gerüchtemappe – Himmlers Sex-Appell, in: Der Spiegel, Ausgabe 14/1948 from 10 April 1948
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