Marie Pleissner

Overview

Marie Luise Pleissner born Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany May 19, 1891 (d. 1983). German Quaker war-resister; opposed WWI, joining “Never War Again”; early member International FOR; founded chapter of World Peace League of Mothers and Educators 1932; urged Quaker aid to Jews; fired as teacher 1934; arrested 1939; survived 8 months in Ravensbrück prison; postwar member of Saxony legislature; active in peace movement.

Quotations

“One cannot fall lower than into God’s hands.” (on release from prison, “Short biographies of German Quakers during the Nazi regime”; photo quaekernachrichten)