Amelie Posse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Amelie Posse

Swedish author

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1884

Place of Birth: Jakob, Sweden

Date of Death: 03-Mar-1957

Profession: writer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Amelie Posse

  • Amelie Posse-Brázdová (11 February 1884 in Stockholm – 3 March 1957) was a Swedish author.
  • She is also known for her work against nazism during World War II. Amelie Posse was the daughter of Count Fredrik Arvidsson Posse and Auda Gunhild Wennerberg.
  • She was married to the criminal psychologist Andreas Bjerre in 1904–1912 and to the Czech artist Oskar (nicknamed Oki) Brázda (1887–1977) from 1915, and became the mother of Bohuslav (Slavo) 9/13/1916-1991;RAF pilot) & the artist Jan Brazda(12/4/1917-2012). During her second marriage, she lived in the Vatican some 7 years,& then Czechoslovakia on the manor LĂ­ckov.
  • She became known as a democrat and a pacifist in her work and was a friend of president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
  • In 1938, she returned to Sweden after an order for her arrest had been issued by the Gestapo.
  • In 1940, she was one of the founders of the discussionclub Tisdagsklubben ("The Tuesday Club") in Stockholm.
  • It was formally a discussion-club about culture, but its true purpose was to work against the expansion of nazism in Sweden.
  • The club was in fact inaugurated the same day Nazi Germany occupied Norway, the 9 April 1940.
  • Tisdagsklubben was to be used as the center of the Swedish resistance movement in the case Sweden was ever occupied by Nazi Germany.
  • Amelie Posse was, like other members of the club, listed in German records as "Untrustworthy Swedes". A tiny museum with Amelie Posse memorabilia can be found at Ă–renäs slott, close to Posse's childhood home (torn down), near Landskrona in south Sweden.

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