Hildegard Moniac

Hildegard Helene Friederike Moniac (29 March 1891 – 3 August 1967) was a German educator and political activist.

Biography Moniac was born on 29 March 1891 in Friedenau, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin. She was raised in Berlin and graduated from the Lette-Verein as a vocational school teacher for tailoring and millinery in 1911.

From 1913 to 1933, Moniac worked as a vocational high school teacher in Spremberg. The couple had met in 1914.

Moniac was a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and she may also have been a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the late 1920s. She was an active political activist.

After her dismissal from teaching, Moniac supported her partner Elberskirchen in running a homeopathic practice in Rüdersdorf, Brandenburg. In Rüdersdof, it was known that the women were lesbian opponents of the Nazis. Elberskirchen was also a feminist writer who published books on women's sexuality and health. Elberskirchen died on 17 May 1943 and Moniac was subsequently involved in an inheritance dispute with Elberskirchen's family.

In 1975, Johanna Elberkirchen's urn was secretly reinterred at Moniac's burial site by friends and the grave was planted with forget-me-nots and violets. On 5 November 2002, the municipal council of Rüdersdorf placed the grave of Moniac and Elberkirchen under protection and a commemorative monument was unveiled in 2003.