Anna Tieke
Anna Tieke , née Wittenburg (born November 11, 1898 , † January 15, 1938 in Leningrad , USSR ) was a German communist who fell victim to the Stalin purges .
Tieke was an office clerk . From 1911 she was in the working class youth , from 1917 to 1922 a member of the USPD . From 1925 she was a member of the KPD and in the Red Women and Girls' Union (RFMB) and in the AM apparatus .
In October 1931 she moved to the Soviet Union with her husband Rudolf and three children . First she worked in Chosta (now part of Sochi ) in the Caucasus , from 1935 in Leningrad , most recently as a seamstress in a kindergarten. In October 1937 she was expatriated by the Nazi authorities.
On November 5, 1937, Anna Tieke and her son Rudi were arrested by the NKVD on charges of being Gestapo agents. They were accused of membership in a “fascist-terrorist Trotskyist counter-revolutionary organization” and of “counterrevolutionary and fascist propaganda among German and Austrian emigrants”. Anna Tieke and her son Rudi were shot dead in Leningrad on January 15, 1938. Rudolf Tieke and the younger children Günter and Ursula had difficult years in exile and were allowed to leave for the GDR after Stalin's death in March 1956 . In June 1956 Anna and her son Rudolf Tieke as well as her husband Rudolf were posthumously rehabilitated by the SED . In 1997 Anja Schindler published a biographical sketch about Anna Tieke and her family.
literature
- Handbook of the German Communists
- Wladislaw Hedeler , Inge Münz-Koenen (ed.): "I came to your country as a guest ...". German opponents of Hitler as victims of the Stalin terror. Family fates 1933–1956 . Lukas Verlag, 2013. ISBN 978-3-86732-177-8
Web links
- http://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/Veranstaltungen/2014/Familie_Schindler-Tieke.pdf
- http://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/Veranstaltungen/2014/Fam_Tieke.pdf
- Rudolf Tieke in the Find a Grave database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical information from the handbook of the German Communists Federal Foundation , online, accessed on February 10, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tieke, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wittenburg, Anna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1898 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1938 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |