Antonie Langendorf

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Antonie Langendorf (around 1929)

Antonie Langendorf , b. Glanzmann (born January 3, 1894 in Leipzig , † June 23, 1969 in Mannheim ) was a German politician ( SPD / USPD / KPD ). From 1947 to 1950 she was a member of the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden .

Life

Antonie Langendorf was born as Anette Glanzmann in Leipzig. She attended elementary school and business school and worked as an office clerk and editor. In 1910 she moved to Mulhouse , where her father worked as a union secretary. After moving to Lörrach in 1914, she worked there for the AOK and married Rudolf Langendorf . When they met, Rudolf Langendorf was active in what was then the workers 'and soldiers' council . The two were among the co-founders of the KPD in Lörrach. In 1921 the couple moved to Friedrichsfeld with their two sons . When her husband was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in connection with the unrest in Baden in 1923, she kept her family afloat by working as an editor for the Mannheimer Arbeiterzeitung .

During the Nazi era , she was imprisoned for political reasons in 1933/34. In 1942 she and her husband were arrested in connection with the betrayal of the Lechleiter resistance group. Antonie Langendorf was released and her husband was executed on September 15, 1942. Three days later she was arrested again and interned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp , where, together with Erika Buchmann, she tried to hold training courses, to hide endangered comrades and to offer resistance. Her son Kurt Langendorf was transferred to a penal company .

politics

Antonie Langendorf became a member of the SPD in 1910 . In 1919 she moved to the USPD and two years later to the KPD . From 1921 she was active in the municipal area, first in Friedrichsfeld and after the incorporation as a city councilor in Mannheim. From 1929 to 1933 she was a member of the Baden state parliament . After the Second World War she worked on the political new beginning. In 1946 she was a member of the provisional parliament and the state constitutional assembly for Württemberg-Baden . From October 1, 1947, she was a member of the first state parliament in Württemberg-Baden, replacing Jakob Ritter , who had resigned from his mandate . From 1945 to 1956 she was a member of the KPD state executive. In the council of Mannheim she was a few years leader of the KPD. After the party was banned, she was a non-party member of the municipal council until 1959.

In 1968 she joined the newly founded German Communist Party (DKP).

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