Edith Baumann (politician)
Edith Baumann (born August 1, 1909 in Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg , † April 7, 1973 in East Berlin ) was an FDJ and SED functionary in the GDR . From 1947 to 1953 she was married to Erich Honecker .
Life
The daughter of a bricklayer and trained stenographer joined the Socialist Workers' Youth in 1925 and was a member of the Reich leadership of the Young Socialists , in 1931 she joined the SAPD and was a member of the SJVD leadership . Elected to the executive committee at the SAPD party congress in March 1933, she was arrested in autumn 1933 and imprisoned until 1936.
In September 1945 the Social Democrat became the deputy head of the FDJ when the Central Youth Committee for the Soviet Occupation Zone was formed, with Erich Honecker as head, and in March 1946 co-founder. She was first general secretary and later until 1949 deputy chairwoman of the FDJ, again as Honecker's deputy. When the SPD and KPD were forced to merge to form the SED in 1946, she became a member of the SED and since then was a member of the party executive committee and the Central Committee of the SED (ZK) until her death in 1973 . From 1949 to 1953 she belonged to the secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED and from 1953 to 1955 was secretary of the SED district leadership in Berlin. From 1955 to 1961 she was head of the working group or the women’s department at the Central Committee and from 1958 to 1963 was a candidate for the Politburo . From 1961 to 1963 she was also secretary of the Central Committee of the SED. Then she was a city councilor, city councilor and secretary of the Berlin magistrate until 1973.
Edith Baumann was a co-founder of the DFD in 1947 and a member of the national executive committee of the DFD until 1964 and was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR from 1949 until her death .
Awards
- 1955, 1959 and 1960 Order Banners of Labor
- 1955 Clara Zetkin Medal
- May 6, 1955 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1965 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- 1969 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
Private
Edith Baumann had been married to Erich Honecker since 1947 , their daughter Erika was born in 1950. After Margot Feist had an illegitimate daughter by Honecker in 1952, Baumann divorced him in 1953.
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Edith Baumann's urn was buried in the memorial of the socialists in the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin-Lichtenberg .
The German Post of the GDR issued a special postage stamp in her honor in 1989 .
Fonts
- The history of the German youth movement. A presentation. Berlin 1947.
- Report on the IDFF Council meeting in Beijing and its significance for our work in Germany. Berlin 1956
literature
- Edith Baumann , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 20/1973 of May 7, 1973, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : Resistance in Prenzlauer Berg and Weissensee . (= Series of publications resistance 1933–1945 , ISBN 3-926082-03-8 ; Volume 12). German Resistance Memorial Center, 2000 (description of your activities in the anti-fascist resistance )
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs u. Bernd-Rainer Barth : Baumann, Edith (married Honecker-Baumann) . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst : SED cadre. The middle level. Biographical Lexicon. 2010, p. 101.
Web links
- Literature by and about Edith Baumann in the catalog of the German National Library
- About marriage to Erich Honecker , MDR
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baumann, Edith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SED functionary, MdV and FDJ functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1973 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |