Given name: Unknown Family name: Knoess

The wife of a Gestapo functionary, who was the acting manager of Szwarckopf's factory, a secretary. Together with her husband she was the terror of the employees.

In February 1945 she proposed that Halina A. choose the most appropriate pair of her shoes. Halina A. had refused to work despite the fact that the manager of the factory had threatened to send her to a camp. She had ceased working because she had no shoes.