Anna von Pritzbuer

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Anna von Pritzbuer (* July 8, 1900 in Berlin ; † July 8, 1971 there ) was a leading cultural functionary of the SED .

Life

Anna von Pritzbuer was born as the daughter of Friedrich von Pritzbuer (1868–1929) and Anna Viereck (1869–1942). After graduating from high school in Berlin, Anna von Pritzbuer studied mathematics and economics in Berlin and Göttingen . As a qualified actuary she worked from 1923 to 1925 at Hamburg-Mannheimer Versicherungs-AG in Hamburg . From 1925 to 1945 she was a manager at Allianz and Stuttgarter Versicherungs-AG in Berlin.

After the end of the war in 1945 she joined the KPD and until April 1947 was the authorized signatory of Allianz Lebensversicherung AG in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Then she worked in the city administration of Berlin. In the first post-war election for the Berlin city council on October 20, 1946 , she ran for the SED, but had no chance at 79th place on the SED candidate list. In February 1948 she was appointed administrative director of the Berlin University by Rector Hermann Dersch , which was renamed the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1949 . During the heated debate in April 1948 between students and the university and SED representatives, Anna von Pritzbuer, SED member and head of the university administration, made sure that the transmission cable of the student reporter Gerhard Löwenthal was cut and threw him and his microphone out of it Boardroom. In some student circles, Ms. von Pritzbuer was called - behind her back - the SED's 'Passionara'.

In 1950 she moved to the German Investment Bank as a department head. From 1953 to 1960 Anna von Pritzbuer was the head of the working group on culture and education in the Central Commission for State Control (ZKSK) at the Council of Ministers of the GDR , which monitored compliance with laws, resolutions and economic planning tasks. From 1960 to 1961 she worked in the State Planning Commission of the GDR .

She died on her 71st birthday in East Berlin.

Awards

literature

  • Jochen Staadt (Ed.): The conquest of culture begins! The State Commission for Art Affairs of the GDR (1951–1953) and the cultural policy of the SED. Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2011.
  • Beatrice Vierneisel: Rudolf Jahnke (1920–1981). A "manager" in the GDR. Aspects of cultural policy in the fifties . Schwerin 2002.
  • James Tent, Freie Universität Berlin 1948-1988: A German University in Current Events, Colloquium Verlag, 1988 - page 98.
  • Barbara Eggenkämper, Gerd Modert, Stefan Pretzlik: The alliance. Company history 1890-2015 . CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-66896-8 : online (accessed November 9, 2017).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anna Maria von Pritzbuer on genealogy.net. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  2. ^ Entry in the commercial register of the Berlin-Mitte district court, published in the Berliner Zeitung on May 31, 1947.
  3. ↑ Elect the candidates of the people . In: Neues Deutschland , October 13, 1946, p. 1.
  4. ↑ Administrative director at the university . In: Neue Zeit , February 28, 1948, p. 3.
  5. ↑ See James Tent (1988), p. 98.
  6. ^ Obituary by the SED district leadership Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg in Neues Deutschland from August 18, 1971, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Pritzbuer, Anna von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural functionary (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1971
Place of death Berlin