Edwin Tietjens

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Edwin Tietjens (20 March 1894, Saint Petersburg - 22 May 1944) was a psychiatrist in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s and resistance fighter against the Nazis.

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Tietjens had a doctorate in philosophy. In 1926 he became the fourth husband of Luigina von Fabrice. [1] His 1929 book Desuggestion, translated into English, was widely reviewed. In 1943 Tietjens and his wife Gina hid a Jewish shoe worker, Ruth Heynemann, and her mother, finding them false papers and taking care of them in their Berlin house. After Tietjens died of a heart attack, his wife continued to look after the women until the Russian army arrived. For this they have been recognized as among the Righteous Among the Nations. [2]

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References

  1. thepeerage.com
  2. Israel Gutman & Sara Bender, Lexikon der Gerechten unter den Völkern: Deutsche und Österreicher, Wallstein Verlag, 2005, Vol. I, p.272; Edwin Tietjens – his activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem website