"Käthe Niederkirchner (7 October 1909 - 28 September 1944) was a German Communist resistance activist whose life ended after she was shot by Nazi paramilitaries on the night of 27/28 September 1944 at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Although the number of people who died under not dissimilar circumstances is incalculably large, one of several things that marks out the case of Käthe Niederkirchner is the extent to which she was celebrated by public authorities after her death. One example among many was the East German Cargo ship "Käthe Niederkirchner" which was named after her, and which in 1965, on just her second voyage since launch, hit the headlines in Scotland when, carrying a cargo of sugar from Cuba towards Rostock, she ran aground (without loss of life) on Muckle Skerry, in the Pentland Firth." - (en.wikipedia.org 16.09.2019)
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