Aenne Kundermann

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Aenne Kundermann (born Seufert ; born October 6, 1907 in Mannheim ; † January 30, 2000 ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ) and the first female diplomat in the GDR.

Life

Youth and trade union official

Kundermann, daughter of a factory worker and a seamstress, attended elementary school from 1913 to 1921 . In 1921 she worked briefly as a maid, then until 1923 as a worker in a cardboard factory in Stuttgart . In 1921 she joined the KJVD . In the KJVD, she held several positions in the Stuttgart-Ost sub-district and in the Württemberg district .

From 1923 to 1926 she worked as a typist in the local administration of the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV) in Stuttgart, and in 1926/27 as a typist in the executive committee of the Communist Youth International in Moscow . In 1928 she returned to Germany and became a member of the KPD. From 1928 to 1930 she was a secretary in the distribution center and in the trade union department of the Central Committee of the KPD. From 1930 to 1933 she was secretary of the Red Union International and the International Committee of Mining, Metal, Chemical and Textile Workers in Berlin and Saarbrücken .

In exile in the Soviet Union

For illegal political activity in Berlin emigrated Kundermann in October 1933, the Czechoslovakia , then in the USSR . From 1933 to 1937 Kundermann was a secretary and employee in the apparatus of the Red Trade Union International in Moscow, from 1937 to 1940 secretary in the foreign department of the headquarters of the Soviet unions, from 1941 stenographer at Metall-Import and employee in the press department of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (Comintern ). During her time in Moscow, she also attended various evening courses at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West . In 1935/36 she was also a member of the commission of the German representation at the Comintern to transfer the emigrated KPD members to the KPdSU .

After the German invasion of the Soviet Union , she was evacuated to Ufa . From 1942 she was an inspector in the administration of the Spassky Zavod prisoner-of-war camp in the Kazakh SSR , then until 1944 a political instructor in the Basyan (Urals) and Nizhny Tagil camps . From December 1944 to April 1945 she attended the KPD Party School No. 12 near Moscow.

Return to the Soviet Zone

In April / May 1945 she returned to Germany via Stettin with her husband Erich Kundermann and the Sobottka group . From July 1945 she was an employee of the KPD district leadership Mecklenburg-Vorpommern responsible for the selection of cadres and the connection to the SMAD , from 1946 to 1949 then member and head of the management department of the SED district leadership or the SED state board Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, as well as a member of the Landtag and its constitutional committee.

In the diplomatic service of the GDR

From 1949 she began preparing for ambassadorial service. In 1950/51 she was head of the diplomatic mission (ambassador) in Sofia , from 1951 to 1953 in Warsaw , 1953/54 head of the department for neighboring countries in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA), there from 1954 to 1960 head of the main department of the Soviet Union , 1960/61 the last ambassador to Tirana for 27 years and from 1962 to 1968 head of the department of coordination and control at the MfAA.

From 1955 to 1962 she was also a member of the central board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship .

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SURNAME Kundermann, Aenne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kundermann, Änne; Seufert, Aenne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD / SED) and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2000