Annemarie Schulz (communist)

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Annemarie Schulz (born March 26, 1897 in Gablenz , Cottbus district as Annemarie Blaeske ; † October 28 or 29, 1979 in Cottbus ) was a German politician ( KPD ) and resistance fighter against National Socialism . She has been an honorary citizen of the city of Cottbus since 1974 .

Life

Annemarie Schulz was born in Gablenz south of Cottbus as the daughter of a farmer . She had three siblings. After her mother's early death in 1904, her father gave her to relatives in Schmellwitz , where she attended elementary school. After finishing school, Schulz worked as a tamper and later as a maid in Cottbus, Hoyerswerda and Berlin . In 1925 she joined the textile workers' association. Then she worked again as a tamper at the Cottbus companies Rottka and Haselbach & Westerkamp.

In 1929 Annemarie Schulz joined the KPD. There she became the women's leader of the KPD local group in Cottbus and in 1932 the women's leader of the Lausitz voter group. She was also a student at the Reichsparteischule Rosa Luxemburg in Fichtenau . In April 1932 Schulz was elected to the Prussian state parliament for the constituency of Berlin . After the Reichstag fire in February 1933, Schulz was arrested and was imprisoned in Barnimstrasse women's prison until November 1933 . After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , she and her husband Georg were arrested again and initially taken to the Mauerstrasse police prison. From there they were later taken to a prison near Frankfurt (Oder) and in August 1944 to the Oderblick labor education camp in Schwetig . Schulz survived the labor camp, among other things, because the camp doctors prevented her from being transported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

After the end of the Second World War , Schulz returned to Cottbus and helped rebuild the city as a rubble woman . She also looked after refugees from eastern Germany and orphans . Schulz became an instructor at the Cottbus Denazification Commission and was a welfare worker at the Department for Social Affairs of the City of Cottbus. She was also chief executive of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD) in the Cottbus-Land district as well as in the FDGB and in the people's solidarity . In 1950 Annemarie Schulz resigned from her offices for health reasons. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the GDR on October 7, 1974, she was made an honorary citizen of Cottbus. In 1977 Schulz was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schulz, Annemarie. In: Handbook of the German Communists. May 2008, accessed on January 29, 2020 (reproduced on the website of the Federal Foundation for the Study of the SED Dictatorship ).
  2. ↑ a b c Annemarie Schulz. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . March 26, 2007, accessed January 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Annemarie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blaeske, Annemarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD) and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Gablenz
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1979 or October 29, 1979
Place of death cottbus