Margarete Blank | |
Birth Date: | 21 February 1901 |
Birth Place: | Kiev |
Death Place: | Dresden |
Nationality: | German |
Other Names: | Margot |
Occupation: | Physician |
Known For: | Execution towards the end of the Second World War |
Margarete Blank (1901–1945) was a German medical doctor who was executed for defeatist speech in 1945. There are now several memorials to her including street names in Engelsdorf and Panitzsch; old people's homes in Prenzlau and Thekla, Leipzig; schools in Panitzsch and Torgau; and an annual prize for a work of medical history at the Leipzig Medical School.