Anna Lindemann

Anna Lindemann (born August 17, 1892 in Bielefeld , † December 6, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German communist , educator , editor , university teacher and activist of the free thinker movement .

Life

Lindemann grew up as the daughter of Bielefeld businessman and his wife and studied in Marburg and Berlin philosophy . During the Weimar Republic , she and her husband Walter Lindemann were active in the KPD and in the proletarian free-thinker movement . She also headed the German section of "International Educational Workers".

During the time of National Socialism the Lindemanns worked as private teachers in Bielefeld. Anna Lindemann's brochure What do the proletarian freethinkers want? was one of the works burned in 1933 .

After the end of the Second World War , she received a teaching position for contemporary history in 1946 and was appointed associate professor for contemporary studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Jena in March 1948 , of which she later also became dean . In 1950 she became professor and dean at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin . On December 6, 1959, she was killed in a car accident.

The Lindemanns gave significant impetus to the freethinker classes, which were particularly successful in Thuringia, to the proletarian family celebrations, especially the youth consecrations.

Honors

In the GDR, the Institute for Teacher Education (IfL) in Crossen an der Elster was named after Anna Lindemann.
A street in Gotha is named after Anna and Walter Lindemann.

Fonts

What do the proletarian free thinkers want? , Published by the Central Association of Proletarian Freethinkers in Germany, 1922
Walter and Anna Lindemann: The proletarian freethinker movement . Leipzig-Lindenau 1926. - Reprint with afterword by Henning Eichberg (= series of workers' culture. Volume 2). Atalas, Münster 1980, ISBN 3-88561-003-5 .

Web links

Literature by and about Anna Lindemann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b From newspaper publisher to martyr , Gothaer Tagespost, August 5, 2017, accessed on January 24, 2019
↑ Michael Ploenus: "... as important as daily bread" The Jena Institute for Marxism-Leninism 1945–1990 . Böhlau, Köln / Weimar / Wien 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-20010-7 , pp. 88 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search).
↑ Eberhart Schulz, Manfred Weissbecker: Lived Ideas: Socialists in Thuringia: biographical sketches. Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Thüringen, 2006, ISBN 3-935850-37-9 , pp. 278–281 ( limited preview in Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Lindemann, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jaspers, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pedagogue, editor and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	17th August 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH	December 6, 1959
Place of death	Berlin

[gotha.tlz.de-1] From newspaper publisher to martyr , Gothaer Tagespost, August 5, 2017, accessed on January 24, 2019

[2] Michael Ploenus: "... as important as daily bread" The Jena Institute for Marxism-Leninism 1945–1990 . Böhlau, Köln / Weimar / Wien 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-20010-7 , pp. 88 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search).

[3] Eberhart Schulz, Manfred Weissbecker: Lived Ideas: Socialists in Thuringia: biographical sketches. Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Thüringen, 2006, ISBN 3-935850-37-9 , pp. 278–281 ( limited preview in Google book search).