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Elfriede Maria Scholz, née Remark (March 25, 1903 – December 16, 1943) was the younger sister of writer Erich Maria Remarque, killed by fascists in 1943.

Biography

Memorial plaque on the house, Suarezstraße 31, in Berlin-Charlottenburg

Elfriede Remark, younger sister of writer Erich Maria Remarque, was born on 25 March 1903 in Osnabrück. She was fifth younger child in the family of Remark. She was educated as the dressmaker. Elfriede worked as a dressmaker, first in Leipzig, then in Berlin, and later in Dresden. She was married for short time to Erich Scholz (Heinz Scholz) in 1941, then divorced.

Stolperstein for Elfriede Scholz in Dresden

After two women reported to the nazi regime that they had heard as Elfriede had scolded the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler, the nazi court indicted her in the late summer of 1943. She was sentenced to death by the court under presiding Roland Freisler on October 29, 1943. She was directed to Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, but authorities unexpectedly cancelled the executionб and after a week in the Plötzensee Prison she was directed to the Barnimstrasse women's prison, then she was directed back from the Barnimstrasse women's prison to the Plötzensee Prison and guillotined on December 16, 1943.

Her body was handed over to Center for Anatomy of the Charité for medical experiments, while authorities said her sister that Elfriede's body was properly buried and demanded from the sister to pay expenses for the procedures spent on the execution.

Erich Maria Remarque had known about the execution of his sister only in 1946 and hired a lawyer, Robert Kempner, to find and charge the nazi guilty of his sister death, but the case was dismissed by the Berlin Court of Appeal in 1970, so Erich Maria Remarque hadn't seen the punishment of guilty nazi, because died of heart failure.