Maud von Ossietzky

Maud von Ossietzky
Born12 December 1888 (1888-12-12)
Hyderabad, British India
Died12 May 1974 (1974-05-13) (aged 85)
Berlin, East Germany
Occupation(s)suffragette, political activist
SpouseCarl von Ossietzky (German)
ChildrenRosalinde von Ossietzky-Palm

Maud Hester von Ossietzky (née Lichfield-Woods; 12 December 1888, Hyderabad – 12 May 1974, Berlin) was a suffragette and the wife of German journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky.

She was born in Hyderabad, India, to a British colonial officer and the descendant of an Indian princess.[1] Despite her Indian heritage, she is almost always referred to as an "Englishwoman."[2][3][4][5]

She was active in the British suffragette movement in her youth.[1]

  1. ^ a b Schivelbusch, Wolfgang (1998). In a Cold Crater: Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin, 1945–1948. Berkeley, CA: UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004; California Digital Library. pp. 171–174.
  2. ^ McCormack, W. J. (11 January 2011). Blood Kindred: W. B. Yeats, the Life, the Death, the Politics. Random House. pp. [no page numbers online]. ISBN 978-1-4464-4424-5.
  3. ^ "Der Namensgeber". Carl-von-Ossietzky-Schule (in German). 28 April 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  4. ^ Wistrich, Robert S. (4 July 2013). Who's Who in Nazi Germany. Routledge. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-136-41388-9.
  5. ^ "Carl von Ossietzky," from Nobel Lectures, Peace 1926-1950, Editor Frederick W. Haberman, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972. Originally written in 1935.