Katharina Jacob
teacher and member of German Resistance against Nazism (1907-1989)
Katharina Jacob (née Emmermann, formerly Hochmuth; 6 March 1907 – 23 August 1989) was a teacher and member of the German Resistance movement against National Socialism. She was married to Franz Jacob, a German Resistance fighter who was executed by the Nazis.
Biography
Jacob was born Katharina Emmermann in Cologne. She married Walter Hochmuth in 1927. He was a Communist politician and member of the Hamburg Parliament during the Weimar Republic. She joined the Communist Party (KPD) in 1928. They had one daughter together, Ursel, born in 1931. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Walter Hochmuth appeared on a wanted poster and went underground. He had an affair with the woman who had given him a place to stay, and they had a son in March 1934. He and Katharina divorced in 1939.
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