244:. She married Friedrich Buchholz in 1909, after which she is described in sources as a housewife. By the time of her marriage her first child, Gertrud, had been born. Her second daughter, Elfriede, was born soon after 1909, but the marriage nevertheless broke apart and she spent the war years in circumstances of considerable hardship as a divorced single mother. For some of the period she was employed at the huge
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had not been universally supported within the party, and became more contentious as the slaughter on the frontline and destitution at home grew. In 1917 the party split apart, primarily over the issue of support for the war, and Elise
Augustat moved over with breakaway faction, which became known as
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399:. In March 1933 Augustat moved to a new address (still in Hamburg), possibly in order to conceal her presence in the city. Two months after that, in May 1933, she was arrested following a denunciation in nearby
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