Maria Wachter (21 April 1910 – 18 August 2010) was a political activist (KPD) who resisted Nazism both before and after 1933. She spent most of the twelve Nazi years in exile or detained in camps and prisons.[1] She was asked in 2010 if she was proud, on the occasion of her hundredth birthday, to be among the last survivors of those who had resisted the Nazis. Evidently she was not, but she was proud to have been a member of the Communist Party for nearly eighty years.[2]