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Lot 1482:
Rudolf Hess Signed NS Frauenschaft ID with Membership Badges which belonged to Meta Mischka-Grahe. She was a famous Opera signer who joined the NSDAP in 1930. We have never seen such an ID personally signwed by Rudolf Hess. Very interesting item!
Meta Hermine Henriette Juliane Mischka-Grahe, nee Grahe A photo of her is on the previous page http: / /forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. … 3#p1348543 born Sept. 9th, 1885 in Schöppenstedt (Duchy of Brunswick) died Feb. 7th, 1973 in Brunswick
Father: Wilhelm Grahe, postman
Mother: Hermine Grahe, nee Wagenführ
1892 – 1901 School at the Bürgerschule in Schöppenstedt. She leaves school without a degree.
1903 – 1907 Studies in music and singing at the conservatory in Hanover and in other towns. Training as opera singer.
1907 – ? Work as opera singer in a multitude of places.
1911 Wedding with Rudolf Mischka (born 1879), an Austrian Army captain.
April 1912 – June 1914 Singer at the German Theatre in Riga.
June 1914 Vistit to the US to arrange her American tour in 1915, just before the outbreak of WWI she returns to Germany.
Nov. 1917 – Jan. 1919 ‘managing director of the re-opened German Theatre in Riga on behalf of the German military administration. Mischka-Grahe is attached to Armee-Oberkommando VIII (VIllth Army).
Jan. 1919 Escape from Riga which is assaulted by communist forces to Germany on a troop transport ship.
1920 Divorce from Rudolf Mischka. The marriage remained childless.
1928 First activity on behalf of the NSADP.
Oct 1st, 1930 Entry into the NSDAP (NSDAP no. 493.242).
Nov. 11th, 1931 Entry into NS Frauenschaft (NSF no. 18.565).
1931 Appointed Ortsfrauenschaftsleiterin in Schöppenstedt.
May 1st, 1933 Appointed Gaufrauenschaftsleiterin for Gau Südhannover- Braunschweig. (According to another source the date is June 1st, 1934).
1936 Entry into Deutsches Frauenwerk although she already had gained membership automatically by joining NSF.
1938 Mischka-Grahe publishes a sort of autobiography (‘Spiel des Lebens) under the name Meta Grahé. Using an unapproved pseudonym gets her into some trouble with the Reichskulturkammer.
1938 She leaves the Protestant church and declares herself as ‘gottgläubig’.
1944 Bestowal with the War Merit Cross 1st class.
Spring 1945 Mischka-Grahe leaves Hanover and goes into hiding in the Harz mountains where she encounters Gauleiter Lauterbacher who also fled.
May 18th, 1945 Mischka-Grahe is arrested by British forces. She seems to have spent some time in the dungeons of the Belgian garrison in Wolfenbüttel and then was shipped to a facility called ‘Civil Internment Camp (CIC) 0 31 of HQ 30, Corps District Nienburg’.
End of Nov. 1945 Release from captivity, return to Schöppenstedt.
1949 Denazification trial; Mischka-Grahe is classed as category IV (fellow traveller) despite attempts by her sister-in-law to talk the court into a verdict much harder.
A local historian from Schöppenstedt did a number of interviews with her till into the 1960s but Mischka-Grahe would always just indulge in reminescences of her theatrical career.
Feb. 7th, 1973 Mischka-Grahe dies in a pensioner’s home in Brunswick.
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