Elfriede Dierlamm

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Elfriede Dierlamm (nee Richter ; born May 2, 1903 in Schmiedeberg ( Erzgebirge ), † May 31, 1988 ) was a party functionary of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) in the GDR . From 1946 until her flight to the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1950, she was an elected member of the Saxon state parliament .

Life

Dierlamm was born as the daughter of a doctor in Schmiedeberg, then part of Austria-Hungary . After attending elementary school in Frankenburg in Upper Austria it acquired at the Lyceum in Linz the Matura and continued her education at a commercial academy continued. She then worked as an accountant and secretary . In April 1925 she married a German citizen and thereby acquired Reich German citizenship. In 1926 she followed her husband to Dresden , where he found a job as a school dentist at the health department . According to her own statements, from then on she worked as a freelance journalist and devoted herself to raising two children. During the time of National Socialism she found a connection to the Goerdeler circle, was temporarily imprisoned in 1943 and made forced labor .

Political activity

After the war, she joined the LDPD in 1945 and became a new teacher . Due to her talent for speaking, she was nominated as the second top candidate in the Saxon state elections in 1946 and, after her election, was appointed by the LDPD parliamentary group as parliamentary manager . In October 1947 she was elected to the party's executive committee at the state party congress, and in the same year she was also deputy group chairman in the state parliament. From 1948 to 1949 she was a member of the German People's Council in the Soviet occupation zone . On October 10, 1949, she was elected by the Saxon state parliament as a member of the GDR Land Chamber .

After the founding of the GDR, Dierlamm was increasingly exposed to repression due to her critical stance . The last time a press campaign was sparked against her in February 1950, after she spoke to the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany Theodor Heuss and others in a discussion . a. as "decent person [s]". In April 1950 she announced in writing that she was leaving the LDPD and resigned from all political offices. She came before a corresponding decision of the leadership committee in the LDPD central board. In the same month Dierlamm fled with her family to the Federal Republic.

Dierlamm was no longer politically active after her escape. She died at the age of 85.

literature

  • State Parliament of Saxony (Ed.): Saxon State Parliament 1946/47 . Sachsenverlag, Dresden 1947.
  • Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945–1949 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 887.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Based on documents from the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .
  2. ↑ The members of the regional chamber elected . In: Neues Deutschland , October 11, 1949, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Dierlamm, Elfriede
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dierlmann, Friedl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party functionary of the LDPD, member of the state parliament in Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmiedeberg
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1988