Käthe Niederkirchner was a German Communist resistance activist who was fatally shot by Nazi paramilitaries on the night of 27/28 September 1944 at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Memorial plaque, Käthe Niederkirchner, Pappelallee 22, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
Käte Niederkirchner was a German politician and pediatrician. In 1967 she became the youngest member of the East German parliament ("Volkskammer"). Her life was impacted by having been born with a famous aunt, the Communist resistance activist Käthe Niederkirchner who was killed by Nazi paramilitaries at Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944, and who was posthumously much celebrated by East Germany's political leadership.
Dr. Niederkirchner (on the left) welcomes one of six working groups from an international delegation of city mayors visiting Berlin on a fact-finding tour, to witness a mothers' advice session at the "Friedrich Wolf" out-patient clinic in Berlin-Lichtenberg 1987