Luise Hartnack

Luise Hartnack was a German graphologist who was murdered at Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was arrested in 1942 for hiding a Jewish friend from the German secret police, Gestapo.

Biography

She was born Luise Bürkle on 1 January 1872 in Marbach am Neckar and married to the carpenter Ferdinand Hartnack.
On 2 August 1942, at the age of 70, she was arrested by the Gestapo at her home in Frankfurt am Main for providing food and a hiding place for a good Jewish friend. On 1 October 1942, she was interned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was said to have died "of heart failure" on 14 December 1942.
She is memorialized with a street stone located in Berlin on Lenaustrasse near the church Kreuzbergprojekt and near Refugio, the public building.