In September 1944, the Nazis murdered the teacher Elisabeth von Thadden, the aunt of DER SPIEGEL editor Marianne Wellershoff. She had been denounced by a man named Paul Reckzeh, who had spied on a ...

Elisabeth von Thadden established her Protestant boarding school for girls in 1927 in an empty palace in Wieblingen. Today, the Elisabeth-von-Thadden School is an Evangelical private high school ...

“When Elisabeth von Thadden appeared before the Volksgericht in Berlin, on 1. July 1944. She had aged by many years. But she was still an unbroken, lucid, upright woman.

Like thousands of other German youngsters, Hilde Speer, a button-bright 16-year-old student at Heidelberg's Elisabeth von Thadden School, would like nothing better than a chance to go to an ...

Mr von Thadden is the first intellectual to be appointed to a job reserved since its creation in 1963 for diplomats and politicians. It seems no bad idea to break that tradition.