Brunhilde Hanke

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Brunhilde Hanke (born March 23, 1930 in Erfurt ) is a former GDR politician and SED functionary. From 1961 to 1984 she was mayor of the city of Potsdam , from 1963 to 1990 a member of the Volkskammer and from 1964 to 1990 a member of the State Council of the GDR .

Life

Hanke grew up in Erfurt as a child of a working class family. After attending elementary school, she learned the trade of a seamstress. In 1945 she became a member of the Free German Trade Union Federation and in 1946 joined the Free German Youth (FDJ) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1948 she also joined the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD). From 1948 to 1950 she was secretary and later the first secretary of the FDJ district leadership in Rudolstadt . From 1950 to 1952 she was assistant, cabinet manager and teacher at the Central Youth School of the Free German Youth " Wilhelm Pieck " Waldhof on Bogensee near Wandlitzand during this time also studied for a year at the Komsomol Central School in Moscow. From 1952 to 1963 she was a member of the Central Council of the FDJ

From 1954 to 1960 she completed a distance learning course at the party college "Karl Marx" at the Central Committee of the SED , which she graduated as a social scientist.

From 1952 she was a member of the SED district leadership in Potsdam and from 1952 to 1961 second secretary of the district leadership in Potsdam of the FDJ. From 1961 she was city ​​councilor and from September 24, 1961 Lord Mayor of Potsdam. From 1963 to 1990 she was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR, where she was also the secretary of the budget and finance committee from 1963 to 1966. From November 19, 1964 until the State Council of the GDR was abolished on April 5, 1990, she was also a member of the GDR State Council.

In 1979 she was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit .

Hanke has three children with her husband Helmut . Her daughter Bärbel Dalichow (* 1953) is a journalist , author and was director of the Potsdam Film Museum from 1990 to 2013 .

Hanke is a member of the Die Linke party .

Lord Mayoress

During her term of office from 1961 to 1984 as Lord Mayor, around 35,000 apartments were built and projects such as the expansion of the Havel Bay on today's Breite Straße were implemented, but the garrison church was also torn down.

Her daughter Bärbel Dalichow was arrested by the state security after a betrayed attempt to escape from the GDR . After her husband Helmut Hanke fell ill and she had health problems herself, Hanke did not stand for election as mayor in the 1984 local elections. Her successor as Lord Mayor was Wilfried Seidel .

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  1. ↑ A socialist alternative. ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorwaerts.de
  2. ↑ Overview of women's politics and movement in the GDR - 1961.
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , 29./30. September 1979, p. 6
  4. ↑ a b Ex-Mayor Brunhilde Hanke celebrates her 80th birthday.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Märkische Allgemeine. March 24, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.maerkischeallgemeine.de  
  5. ↑ Two Lord Mayors - two worlds: Jann Jakobs with GDR predecessor Brunhilde Hanke in a panel discussion. In: Potsdam's latest news. April 26, 2008.
  6. ↑ Uwe-Karsten Heye, Bärbel Dalichow: "We wanted another country": A family story from the GDR. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-27530-6 .
  7. ↑ Gerald Praschl: "Believed in the GDR ... until the Stasi took my own daughter".  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. April 28, 2008, on: superillu.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.superillu.de  
personal data
SURNAME Hanke, Brunhilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anweiler, Brunhilde (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), MdV, Lord Mayor of Potsdam
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt