On this day
20
December

Anita Augspurg, Wolfgang Lauinger

Died: Anita Augspurg (1943), Wolfgang Lauinger (2017)

Died on this day

20DecDied 194383rd anniversary of death

Anita Augspurg

Germany’s first woman with a law doctorate fought for women’s suffrage, peace and resistance to the rising far right.

20DecDied 20179th anniversary of death

Wolfgang Lauinger

Persecuted by the Gestapo, imprisoned again under Paragraph 175 in 1950 – and refused compensation until his death at 99.