Paula Acker

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Paula Acker (born Löffler, born February 3, 1913 in Tübingen ; † November 7, 1989 in Berlin ) was a German correspondent, editor and KPD and SED functionary.

Life

Acker, born the daughter of a bricklayer, worked from 1930 to 1936 as a correspondent for foreign languages ​​(English and French) in Schwenningen after attending primary and secondary school and training as an industrial clerk . She had been a member of the KPD since 1931 . From 1936 to 1939, after pre- trial detention and conviction for “preparation for high treason ”, she was first in the women's penitentiary in Upper Bavaria and then in the state police headquarters in Stuttgart .

In 1939 she managed to escape to Switzerland , where she worked as an editor for the magazine "Der Deutsche" in Basel. She was connected to the illegal movement "Free Germany", from 1944 she worked as an intern and assistant at the Unitarian Service Committee of Noel Field in Geneva . In 1941 she was expelled from the KPD on charges of cooperation with the Gestapo; the exclusion was lifted in 1945 as unfounded.

After her return to Germany Paula Acker was head of the social welfare office from 1945 to 1947 and a member of the Schwenningen city council from 1946 to 1951. At the same time she was active in the women's work of the KPD and was a member of the party executive from 1948 to 1951. From 1947 to 1951 she was an editor at various newspapers, including as deputy editor-in-chief of the KPD newspaper Our Voice . At times she was state chairwoman of the KPD Südwürttemberg-Hohenzollern , for which she ran unsuccessfully as a top candidate for the German Bundestag in 1949 . In 1951 she was removed from all party positions in connection with the Noel Field affair.

In the same year, Acker moved to the GDR on the instructions of the party and joined the SED there . From 1951 to 1958 she worked for the Lausitzer Rundschau , since 1955 as editor-in-chief. From 1958 to 1971 she was an employee of the agitation commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED. At the same time, she was a member of the National Council of the National Front from 1958 to 1989, and has been a member of its Presidium since 1962. From 1963 to 1976 she was a member of the women's commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.

She was married to the KPD functionary Wilfried Acker .

Awards

Publications

  • National Front of Democratic Germany (Ed.): Walter Ulbricht: a life for Germany . EA Seemann, 1968 (231 pages).

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personal data
SURNAME Acker, Paula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löffler, Paula (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1989
Place of death Berlin