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Written by Christoph Wilker

Persecuted Jehovah’s Witness

Franziska Reller, vor 1933 | Privatbesitz Erna Franz

This single office worker was baptized as a Jehovah's Witness in 1924. During the ban on the religious community under the Nazi regime, she made her apartment available for Bible study groups, subscribed to publications of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and participated in the distribution of protest flyers in Schwabing on December 12, 1936. Franziska Reller was arrested and sentenced on June 15, 1937 by the Munich Special Court to five months in prison. This resident of Schwabing outlived the Third Reich and was a member of the Jehovah's Witness community in Schwabing until her death.

Sources

Staatsarchiv München, StAnw 8603.
Wilker, Christoph: „Verfolgung und Standhaftigkeit der Zeugen Jehovas in Schwabing“ in: Macek, Ilse: „ausgegrenzt – entrechtet – deportiert: Schwabing und Schwabinger Schicksale 1933 bis 1945“, München 2008.

Cite

Christoph Wilker: Reller, Franziska (published on 16.01.2025), in: nsdoku.lexikon, edited by the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, URL: https://www.nsdoku.de/en/lexikon/artikel?tx_nsdlexikon_pi3%5Baction%5D=show&tx_nsdlexikon_pi3%5Bcontroller%5D=Entry&tx_nsdlexikon_pi3%5Bentry%5D=701&cHash=ec5b319c8ed3becbb17970f6157a6e4a

Franziska Reller (7.12.1889 Munich – 22.9.1975 Munich)