Gertrud Luckner was a christian

Christian

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 resister against the Nazism

German Resistance

The German resistance was the opposition by individuals and groups in Germany to Adolf Hitler or the National Socialist regime between 1933 and 1945. Some of these engaged in active plans to remove Adolf Hitler from power and overthrow his regime...

 and a righteous among the Nations

Righteous Among the Nations

Righteous among the Nations of the world's nations"), also translated as Righteous Gentiles is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis....

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Early life and Education

Gertrud Luckner was born Jane Hart, but grew up with foster parents, which they had been transferred shortly after her birth and she had probably protestant baptized on. At the age of 22, she was eventually adopted by their foster parents after they had purchased shortly before the German citizenship. After attending high school in Berlin

Berlin

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 and Konigsberg

Königsberg

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, she took in 1925 to study economics at the university there. Their livelihood, they had to secure with language courses, internships in family care, baby clinics, health care and counseling. About the Goethe University of Frankfurt

Frankfurt

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, the Quakers

Religious Society of Friends

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 Brooke-Wood College, in Birmingham

Birmingham

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, she was ready to graduate in 1931 as an economist at the Albert-Ludwigs University

University of Freiburg

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 in Freiburg, where in 1938 the title of a Dr.rer.pol. acquired.

Conviction and commitment

Luckner was a convinced pacifist, a quaker she belonged to the 1933-34 Association of German Catholics for peace since 1931 to 1934. In 1934 she was baptized Roman Catholic, however, and distanced himself from the theological Quakerism, but remained pacifist.

With these activities, it was the suspected of regime's criminal objectives they had identified in 1931 after reading Hitler's Mein Kampf. As early as 1933 their mail was monitored by the police.

Luckner advised shortly after the so-called Jews to emigrate to power and helped them. Since 1936, she was employed by the charity, where he continued under the management and protection of the President of Caritas Benedikt Kreutz their work for persecuted Jews. Archbishop Conrad Grober

Conrad Gröber

Conrad Gröber was a Catholic priest and archbishop of the Archdiocese of Freiburg.-Youth and education:...

 of Freiburg gave her for their protection in December 1941, deliberately blurred identity formulated, under which it is entrusted with carrying out necessary tasks of the extraordinary pastoral care. "In restless travels, she delivered the entrusted extensive financial and technical resources, stood publicly sided with the Jews, went with them, walking after they were forced in 1941 to wear the Jewish star, or accompanied her to church and helped them after the war began, only a small extent feasible escape to freedom.