Background
She was a granddaughter of Prussian diplomat Philip, Prince of Eulenburg through his youngest daughter Viktoria.
She was a granddaughter of Prussian diplomat Philip, Prince of Eulenburg through his youngest daughter Viktoria.
After her abitur at a girls" secondary school in Zurich and a stay in the United Kingdom, she was hired by the motion picture company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer"s Berlin branch office as a press officer She joined the Nazi Party in March 1933. Early in 1937, she left the Nazi Party.
In the period that followed, she wrote a play with Günther Weisenborn, “Die guten Feinde” (“The Good Enemies”).
In 1940, she wrote film reviews for the Essener Zeitung, while also gathering pictorial evidence of Nazi war crimes in the Reich Propaganda Ministry. Schulze-Boysen warned friends and disposed of their own illegal documents, but was arrested anyway on September 8, 1942.
While in prison, she wrote a number of remarkable letters and poems to her mother. She was charged with "preparation" to commit high treason, helping the enemy and espionage.
Her husband was charged with preparation to commit high treason, wartime treason, military sabotage and espionage.
In the Berlin borough of Lichtenberg in 1972, a street was named after the Schulze-Boysens. Her grandniece is Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein.