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Ina Ender
Ina Ender (9 July 1917 – 27 March 2008) was a German resistance fighter, seamstress, fashion model and one of the first German criminal police officers.
Ender was the daughter of the trained sculptor and communist Erich Schreier and seamstress Margarete Hätzel. Her father was a co-founder of the Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany. He worked as a clerk in the Berlin-Kreuzberg district office and was chairman of the works council there until 1933. He became a well-known opponent of the Nazis.
From 1923 to 1927, Ina Schreier attended Kreuzberg elementary school and then the Minna-Cauer School in Neukölln for her secondary education. She became involved in the student council early on and came into contact with the Young Communists in 1931 through a family friend. Ender was the first girl to attend the Scharfenberg reform school. Through her friendship with Hans Lautenschläger and Hans Coppi, she joined the already illegal Communist Youth League in 1932 at the age of 15 and took part in her friends' political actions against the Nazi regime.
When Hitler seized power on 30 January 1933, her father was dismissed from the district office and abused by the Sturmabteilung during subsequent house searches. Despite her very good academic performance, Ender was subsequently deprived of her free place at boarding school. As her parents were unable to pay the school fees, she had to leave school without graduating and was unable to get an apprenticeship due to a lack of training places. Her mother then trained her as a seamstress and she managed to find a place at a vocational school for seamstresses. However, her training was not recognized as her mother was not authorized to train apprentices. Mother and daughter were initially able to scrape a living together from private commissions. By 1935, Ender was employed as a pieceworker in a yarn-making factory. In 1936, she found a job as a ready-to-wear seamstress in a ladies' tailoring shop. On the 14 September 1936, she married Hans Lautenschläger who was active in the resistance.
In 1936, the photojournalist with the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung and photographer to the stars Hanns Hubmann, became aware of Ender and took her photograph, which appeared in the front page of the newspaper. Hubmann considered that Ender had all the prerequisites for a career as a photo model. In the following year, Ender was subsequently "discovered" by the fashion world and had begun working as a model (known in the parlance as a demonstration lady) for several fashion salons, the Metropol-Theater and the film company UFA. Ender worked in Berlin but demand for her skills led to work in other European countries.
In 1937 Hans Coppi, her school friend from Scharfenberg introduced Harro Schulze-Boysen to Ender in a coffee shop on Leipziger Strasse. Schulze-Boysen was the leader of a large resistance network in Berlin and he suggested that Ender should apply to work at the Berlin based couturer Annemarie Heise. The salon was considered a fashionable address for certain female screen stars like Marika Rökk and Zarah Leander and women from the National Socialist leadership like Eva Braun Hitler's girlfriend and others Magda Goebbels, Emmy Göring and Elisabeth Henckel von Ribbentrop. By early 1939, Ender was working as a model in the Heise salon and this enabled her to gather intelligence from the ladies that could be used by the resistance. The sophisticated atmosphere of the salon combined with the expert help provided by models like Ender along with the free flow of liqueur made the celebrity customers talkative. This enabled Ender to find out state secrets, appointments, travel dates as well as see changes in the power structures of the posh ladies of the ruling elite and odd tidbits of gossip that could be useful.
Every week Ender would meet with Hans Coppi to pass on any important information.
In September 1942, Ina Ender was arrested by the Gestapo and she along with Hilde Coppi, Hanni Weißensteiner and Erika Countess von Brockdorff were taken to Gestapo headquarters in Alexanderplatz. Ender was fortuitous as Lotte Pinzke had removed most of the incriminating evidence from the boathouse in Gaabs before the Gestapo arrived and dumped it in the Havel.
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Ina Ender
Ina Ender (9 July 1917 – 27 March 2008) was a German resistance fighter, seamstress, fashion model and one of the first German criminal police officers.
Ender was the daughter of the trained sculptor and communist Erich Schreier and seamstress Margarete Hätzel. Her father was a co-founder of the Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany. He worked as a clerk in the Berlin-Kreuzberg district office and was chairman of the works council there until 1933. He became a well-known opponent of the Nazis.
From 1923 to 1927, Ina Schreier attended Kreuzberg elementary school and then the Minna-Cauer School in Neukölln for her secondary education. She became involved in the student council early on and came into contact with the Young Communists in 1931 through a family friend. Ender was the first girl to attend the Scharfenberg reform school. Through her friendship with Hans Lautenschläger and Hans Coppi, she joined the already illegal Communist Youth League in 1932 at the age of 15 and took part in her friends' political actions against the Nazi regime.
When Hitler seized power on 30 January 1933, her father was dismissed from the district office and abused by the Sturmabteilung during subsequent house searches. Despite her very good academic performance, Ender was subsequently deprived of her free place at boarding school. As her parents were unable to pay the school fees, she had to leave school without graduating and was unable to get an apprenticeship due to a lack of training places. Her mother then trained her as a seamstress and she managed to find a place at a vocational school for seamstresses. However, her training was not recognized as her mother was not authorized to train apprentices. Mother and daughter were initially able to scrape a living together from private commissions. By 1935, Ender was employed as a pieceworker in a yarn-making factory. In 1936, she found a job as a ready-to-wear seamstress in a ladies' tailoring shop. On the 14 September 1936, she married Hans Lautenschläger who was active in the resistance.
In 1936, the photojournalist with the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung and photographer to the stars Hanns Hubmann, became aware of Ender and took her photograph, which appeared in the front page of the newspaper. Hubmann considered that Ender had all the prerequisites for a career as a photo model. In the following year, Ender was subsequently "discovered" by the fashion world and had begun working as a model (known in the parlance as a demonstration lady) for several fashion salons, the Metropol-Theater and the film company UFA. Ender worked in Berlin but demand for her skills led to work in other European countries.
In 1937 Hans Coppi, her school friend from Scharfenberg introduced Harro Schulze-Boysen to Ender in a coffee shop on Leipziger Strasse. Schulze-Boysen was the leader of a large resistance network in Berlin and he suggested that Ender should apply to work at the Berlin based couturer Annemarie Heise. The salon was considered a fashionable address for certain female screen stars like Marika Rökk and Zarah Leander and women from the National Socialist leadership like Eva Braun Hitler's girlfriend and others Magda Goebbels, Emmy Göring and Elisabeth Henckel von Ribbentrop. By early 1939, Ender was working as a model in the Heise salon and this enabled her to gather intelligence from the ladies that could be used by the resistance. The sophisticated atmosphere of the salon combined with the expert help provided by models like Ender along with the free flow of liqueur made the celebrity customers talkative. This enabled Ender to find out state secrets, appointments, travel dates as well as see changes in the power structures of the posh ladies of the ruling elite and odd tidbits of gossip that could be useful.
Every week Ender would meet with Hans Coppi to pass on any important information.
In September 1942, Ina Ender was arrested by the Gestapo and she along with Hilde Coppi, Hanni Weißensteiner and Erika Countess von Brockdorff were taken to Gestapo headquarters in Alexanderplatz. Ender was fortuitous as Lotte Pinzke had removed most of the incriminating evidence from the boathouse in Gaabs before the Gestapo arrived and dumped it in the Havel.