Maud von Ossietzky

In Hamburg (or perhaps Fairhaven, England) on 19 August 1913, she married Carl von Ossietzky, a pacifist and later a writer for and editor-in-chief of the leftist German weekly Die Weltbühne (The World Stage). Early in their marriage, she paid a fine on his behalf after he published an anti-war article. After the Reichstag Fire in April 1933, von Ossietzky wanted to flee Germany, but her husband chose to remain. neither she nor her husband's famous international friends could release him from Nazi concentration camps. In 1936, Carl von Ossietzky contracted tuberculosis and was moved to a hospital in Berlin. Maud spent time in a psychiatric clinic after his death. == Historical inconsistencies ==

Many sources state that by the time the Nazis imprisoned her husband, von Ossietzky was an alcoholic, Another source claims that Maud and Rosalinde emigrated to Sweden via England, German sources tend to ascribe Maud a more positive and active role, while English-language scholarship often describes her in less complimentary terms. == Later life ==

On 1 June 1946, Die Weltbühne reappeared in the Soviet sector of Berlin with Maud von Ossietzky and Hans Leonard listed as editors. Historians were divided in their opinion: Wolfgang Schivelbusch referred to the book as "admittedly unreliable," == Further reading ==