Meta Kraus-Fessel

Meta Kraus-Fessel (born Meta Kraus: 6 August 1884 – 23 November 1940) was a German anarchist, communist, journalist, welfare ministry official and behavioural researcher.

Life Meta Fessel was born in Przytullen a small village then in a rural part of East Prussia. (Today it is in Poland a short distance to the south of the border with the Kaliningrad enclave.) Her father was a landowner. During the war, between 1914 and 1918 she worked on the other side of the country in the city welfare office in Frankfurt am Main, as a counsellor for those bereaved and / or injured by the war. It was here that she met Siegfried Kraus from Vienna whom she married, but the two of them separated quite soon after that. Following the concentration camp murder of her fellow anarchist, Erich Mühsam, she took care of his widow, Zenzl. Fairly soon afterwards the two of them fell out.