Luise Meier was a devout Catholic and thus rejected the Nazi regime. A widow, she hid the Jewish couple Herta and Felix Perls for a time in her home in the wealthy Berlin district of Grunewald in 1942, and also took in their acquaintance Wally Heinemann in the spring of 1943.
At the end of April 1943, Meier was asked by the Swiss delegate of the International Red Cross to help a Jewish woman she did not know, Lotte Kahle, to escape to Singen. While doing so, Meier came into contact to Josef Höfler from the Lake Constance region. Together with other helpers, they enabled some 28 persecuted people to escape to Switzerland.
After a failed escape attempt in May 1944, the group was arrested. The Freiburg special court began the investigation, and the case was then transferred to the “People’s Court” in Berlin. However, the trial for “aiding the enemy” no longer took place. After eleven months in custody, which Luise Meier spent in Singen prison and then in Stockach on Lake Constance, she was liberated by French troops on April 21, 1945. She was honored posthumously in 2001 by the Israeli Holocaust memorial center Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.