Frau Andrea Ellendt

"100 years ago, the nationalist agitator Andrea Ellendt spread hate slogans from Kitzingen in the Main [River] triangle. The authorities often let her do as she pleased ― with consequences ...

The 31 year old  woman, whom her admirers called 'Miss', was a striking figure : an eyewitness described her as 'slim and well-groomed like a lady'. She wore a small hat on her hair that resembled a small helmet, and the black coat with the wide leather belt also had something military about it."

Roland Flade. 11 September, 2022, 'Radical "Miss" from Mexico : The first woman to publicly campaign for Hitler on the Main', Main Post, <mainpost.de/regional/kitzingen...>

Andrea Ellendt as Rightwing Propagandist

    "Andrea Ellendt is [sic] a tireless speaker for the German Nationalist Protection and Defense League [, especially in Munich and Franconia. In this capacity she also appears at a Nazi Party event on 11 May, 1922, in the Munich Burgerbraukeller:

     'I appeal to all of you. Show courage, unite more firmly, the time demands it. We demand the elimination and removal of all Jews. We cannot fight the Jews with words, we must instead take action. But you are all called to do this, all of you who are hear. Be united when it comes to taking revenge on the the Jews!'

     Such calls for violence meant that some towns banned Ellendt from performing as early as spring 1922. Elsewhere, however, her lectures attracted hundreds of visitors, and at times the propagandist gave several lectures a day. She was flanked by armed male storm troopers who brutally attacked political opponents and Jews. Andrea Ellendt won numerous new members for NSDAP [National Socialist German Workers' Party, later known as Nazi Party]".

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[Elke Kimmel, 9 March 2022, '100 Years of Political Murder in Germany', Deutschlandfunk Kultur.]

UNTERFRANKEN (Lower Franconia)

Early NSDAP Activity 1922-1925 

"In the years following World War 1, succeeding waves of economic crisis gradually undermined the socio-economic and political stability of Unterfranken, impoverishing and radicalizing the populace. With the exception of Kitzingen and Burgstadt, however, the NSDAP never obtained a majority or a dominant plurality in any Weimar elections the Bavarian People's Party [Bayerische Volks-partei, the Catholic Bavarian People's Party], despite its perennially slight political activity, always managed to win the largest share of the votes. It was against this [Unterfranken population (1933): 796,043 total; Catholic 643,970; Protestant 143,187; Jewish 8,420], that the NSDAP had to struggle, in the end making its greatest gains only among the predominantly Protestant communities and mixed cities such as Kitzingen and Schweinfurt ...

... As early as 1920 violent and anti-Semitic public meetings took place in Wurzburg and Aschaffenburg, and sometimes they were abruptly halted by fist-fights with irate Jews or broken up by bands of Socialists. Oddly enough, the first leader of the first prominent anti-Semitic movement was a woman, Frau Andrea Ellendt. By 1922, both she and the dentist Dr Otto Hellmuth of Markbreit (Kitzingen prefecture) had created a right-wing movement named Frankenland with its first Ortsgruppe, or local group, located in heavily Protestant Kitzingen. Under her leadership the movement flourished until the month of December 1922, when Socialist opponents attacked her following a meeting she held in Wurtzburg. The police rescued her and persuaded Ellendt to suspend her activities. In the spring of 1923 she resumed her political work, but after several meetings marked by much property damage, severe beatings and one death, she dropped from public view.

In late April 1923, Julius Streicher, a teacher from Nuremburg, made his first anti-Semitic speech for the NSDAP's recently founded Orstgruppe in Wurtzburg. This speech signalled the fact that the Nazis were to inherit Ellendt's faltering movement; indeed, Hellmuth played a key role in merging Frankenland with the Nazi's Sturm Arbteilung, or SA. He eventually joined the NSDAP in December of 1926 and in October 1928 he was appointed Gauleiter, or district leader of the new Gau of Unterfranken."

[Rolf Blikslager Memming, 1974, 'The Bavarian Governmental District Unterfranken and the City of Burgstadt 1922-39 : A Study of the National Socialist Movement and Party-State Affairs', University of Nebraska PhD Dissertation.]

Frau Ellendt : Hate Speech and Storm Troopers

"... across Germany, nationalist and antisemitic speakers with either formal ties to the Nazi Party or growing sympathy with its goals repeatedly asserted false claims about ... Jewish influence upon Germany. One of the most notable such firebrands was a thirty-one-year-old female Nazi named Andrea Ellendt ... Her husband, a naval officer, was killed during the fighting, and at the end of the war she joined the right-wing and strongly antisemitic Deutschvolkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund (German Nationalist Protection and Defiance Federation) in Munich. Tall and thin, she kept her hair tied back and tucked away under a striking hat shaped like the steel helmets that German soldiers wore during the First World War. Observers of her speeches noted that her habit of wearing a long dark raincoat or leather jacket, which she tightened at her waist with a wide leather belt, helped her to stand out.

By the summer of 1922, Ellendt was based in Kitzingen, a town with around ten thousand residents in the wine-producing region of Mainfranken [the Main River Triangle] in northern Bavaria, about 250 kilometres north of Munich, where her speeches regularly filled the town's largest venues ... Her increasing popularity was a product of the economic crisis of 1922 and in particular the collapse in agricultural prices that left many rural families facing ruin ... On 24 June 1922, one US dollar was worth around 330 German marks. Just over a hundred days later, the cost had risen to 1,800 marks. This was not even close to the worst of the hyperinflation that would almost destroy the Weimar Republic in 1923, but the effects were bad enough to draw crowds to listen to the speeches of the Nazis like Ellendt. On top of the fall in the value of the German currency, the 1922 harvest had been poor. This worsened the situation facing farmers, many of whom were angry ... For them, Ellendt offered a simple and straightforward explanation for who was to blame: 'racketeers', 'usurers', 'profiteers', 'Jews'.

But Ellendt wasn't just a popular preacher who targeted minorities; she was an early representative of Fascist politics in rural Germany. Even before the term was widely used, she had her own company of Stormtroopers or assault troops. As she traversed the wine-growing region, she was followed by around fifty to eighty men armed with clubs and knuckle-dusters and led by a swastika flag-bearer. When she spoke publicly, her follower's job was to intimidate anyone who interrupted her. If any Jews were present, they forced them to leave. After she finished speaking, she sent her troops off on rampages through clusters of 'Jewish streets' in small towns or villages, where they chanted, 'Jews out, string them up!' ...

When the Central Association of German Jews protested against her antisemitism, the district president ... advised them to ignore her speeches. He warned them to avoid doing anything 'that might particularly nourish the current antisemitic thought, such as inappropriate behaviur towards the lectures'. Ellendt needed no such nourishment: she called the government 'criminal', 'all Jews and racketeers' or 'Jews and traitors'. She described Jews as the force behind both Russian Bolshevism and American capitalism and claimed that the 'truth' about the Jews remained unknown because 'they' controlled the press. At one meeting that was only open to women who were eighteen and older, she warned: 'Jewish doctors work against families. Judah wants to strike against Germany's unborn generations, so that they stay unborn and Judah can be victorious and rule the world' ...

Ellendt's speeches called for action. She told her audiences that they should 'hunt the government to hell'. She advised farmers not  to send their produce to Berlin, where it would be used for speculkation, and told them not to sell grain to Jews. She called upon Germans 'to unite and protect yourselves from Jewish power'. On one occasion , as she finished speaking, she demanded: 'The Jewish star must perish, and the cross of Christ must rise in the light of the swastika'."

[Mark Jones, 2023, 1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler's Coup, Basic Books, London, 52-55]

OCCUPATION - ORATOR (Status - War-widow)

Born: On 10 November 1890 in Hidalgo Del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. Named Emma Andrea Stallforth by her German parents (Bernhard Emil Stallforth and Anita Bonaventura nee Stein). Grand-daughter of German Consul General to Mexico.

Married: To Renatus Ellendt (born 31 August 1881) who was Kapitanleutnant der Reserve Kriegsmarine (promoted 22 March 1914).

Husband's Service Record:

     1901 - enlisted as part of crew

     1905 - promoted Leutnant zur See

     1908 - promoted Oberleutnant zur See

     1914 - promoted Kapt-Lt Sdr-Kdo (Appointed Company Commander in Marine Infantry  Battalion, Sonderkommando Usedom, special forces).

     1915 - transferred to Turkey to take command of Ottoman Minesweeper Taskopru

in Istanbul waters. On 10 December 1915 it was reported gunboats Taskopru and Yozgat sunk by Russian destroyers off Kefken Ada in Black Sea.

     1916 - recalled as Kapt-Lt (commander) of Flanders Motorboat Division

     1918 - died in October of 'non-combat cause' (pneumonia)

Military Medals Awarded to Husband:

     1915 - Ottoman Silver Liakat

     1918 - Iron Cross 2nd Class (EK II - Eisemes Kreuz 2.Klasse)

Widow's Post-war Public Speaking:

"On 29 October 1920 Ellendt spoke  at a Nazi Party meeting with about 350 visitors in the Mattildensaat in Munich , where Adolf Hitler was the first to speak, according to a Reichswehr [Army] scribe 'about the foreign and hate propaganda of our enemies and his position on the League of Nations. 

 According to a report by the Political Intelligence Service of the Munich Police Headquarters, on 5 November 1920, she gave a speech at a Nazi Party meeting led by Anton Drexler with 2,500 visitors in the Kindle-Keller, where Hitler spoke against the League of Nations.

 On 11 May 1922 Ellendt was residing in Munich's Wotanstrasse at the time, and she declared at a public event organized by the NSDAP in the Burger-brakeller ... "We demand the elimination and removal of the Jews".

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