Hanna Wolf (politician, 1908)

Grave of Hanna Wolf in the Pankow III cemetery in Berlin

Hanna Wolf , b. Haschka (born February 4, 1908 in Gonionds , † May 22, 1999 in Berlin ) was rector of the party college at the SED Central Committee and a member of the SED Central Committee .

Life

As the daughter of a rabbi and teacher and a teacher, she also became a teacher after attending elementary school and high school. She was a member of the Polish Communist Youth Association, studied at the University of Berlin from 1927 to 1932 and became a member of the KPD in 1930 . In 1932 she emigrated to Moscow , worked at the International Lenin School of the Comintern from 1935 to 1937 and was director of the Central School for German Prisoners of War in Krasnogorsk from 1943 to 1948 .

After her return to Germany in April 1948, she worked in the SED party apparatus , became a candidate in 1954 and a member of the SED Central Committee in 1958 . On September 12, 1950, the Politburo of the SED appointed Hanna Wolf as director of the Karl Marx party college , which she headed until 1983. At the plenary session of the Central Committee on October 18, 1989, Wolf was the only Central Committee member to vote against the Politburo's proposal to release Erich Honecker from his functions in the state and party during the fall of the Berlin Wall and peaceful revolution . In February 1990 she was expelled from the PDS .

She found her final rest in a Pankow cemetery .

literature

Peter Erler , Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Wolf, Hanna . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Literature by and about Hanna Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Gottfried Hamacher with the assistance of André Lohmar, Herbert Mayer, Günter Wehner and Harald Wittstock: Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement, short biographies . Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-320-02941-X , p. 216 ( online [PDF; accessed April 16, 2019]).
↑ See Hans-Hermann Hertle, Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan (ed.): The end of the SED. The last days of the Central Committee , 4th edition Berlin 1999, p. 104.

personal data
SURNAME	Wolf, Hanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Haschka, Hanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German rector of the SED party college
DATE OF BIRTH	4th February 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gonionds
DATE OF DEATH	May 22, 1999
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Gottfried Hamacher with the assistance of André Lohmar, Herbert Mayer, Günter Wehner and Harald Wittstock: Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement, short biographies . Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-320-02941-X , p. 216 ( online [PDF; accessed April 16, 2019]).

[2] See Hans-Hermann Hertle, Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan (ed.): The end of the SED. The last days of the Central Committee , 4th edition Berlin 1999, p. 104.