Maud von Ossietzky

Maud Hester von Ossietzky (née Lichfield-Woods; 12 December 1888, Hyderabad – 12 May 1974, Berlin) was a suffragette and the wife of German journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky.

She was born in Hyderabad, India, to a British colonial officer and the descendant of an Indian princess. Despite her Indian heritage, she is almost always referred to as an "Englishwoman."

She was active in the British suffragette movement in her youth. on 19 August 1913, she married Carl von Ossietzky, a pacifist and later a writer for and editor-in-chief of the leftist German weekly Die Weltbühne (The World Stage). Early in their marriage, she paid a fine on his behalf after he published an anti-war article.

After the Reichstag Fire in April 1933, von Ossietzky wanted to flee Germany, but her husband chose to remain. neither she nor her husband's famous international friends could release him from Nazi concentration camps.

In 1936, Carl von Ossietzky contracted tuberculosis and was moved to a hospital in Berlin.

Maud spent time in a psychiatric clinic after his death. Another source claims that Maud and Rosalinde emigrated to Sweden via England,

German sources tend to ascribe Maud a more positive and active role, Historians were divided in their opinion: Wolfgang Schivelbusch referred to the book as "admittedly unreliable,"