Elli Schmidt

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Elli Schmidt (right), next to her Otto Nagel , 1952

Elli Schmidt (born August 9, 1908 in Berlin ; † July 30, 1980 ibid) was a candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED and chairwoman of the DFD in the GDR .

Life

Schmidt was born as the daughter of a police officer in Berlin-Wedding . After attending elementary school, she trained as a seamstress from 1922 to 1926 and worked in the profession until 1932. She joined the Fichte workers' sports club in 1926 and the Communist Youth Association of Germany and the KPD in 1927 and was a member of the extended management of the KPD district management in Berlin-Brandenburg. From 1932 to 1934 she attended the International Lenin School of the Communist International in Moscow . Until 1937 she worked illegally for the KPD in Germany. a. as a union instructor for the Lower Rhine district. From 1935 to 1946 she was the only woman to be a member of the Central Committee of the KPD. From 1937 to 1940 she worked for the KPD leadership in Prague and Paris , after which she lived in the USSR , where she worked under the pseudonym Irene Gärtner a . a. worked as an employee of the women's programs of the German national broadcaster as well as in the National Committee Free Germany .

After her return to Germany in 1945, Schmidt was a member of the Central Committee of the KPD and a co-signatory of the KPD appeal of June 1945. As chairwoman, she headed the women's committee of the Greater Berlin City Council . In 1945/1946 she was a member of the KPD regional leadership of Greater Berlin. With the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD , she became a member of the SED. From 1946 to 1953 she was a member of the party executive or central committee and the central secretariat of the SED and until 1948 city councilor of Berlin. From April 1946 to May 1949 she headed the SED women's secretariat together with Käthe Kern .

In 1947 she became a member of the DFD board of directors and in 1948 first chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Association Berlin (DFB) and in 1949 first chairwoman of the DFD, a member of the executive and the council of the International Democratic Women's Federation and from 1950 to 1954 a member of the People's Chamber . In 1950 she became a candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.

In 1953 she was relieved of her leading positions in the SED and in the DFD because of her sharp criticism of Walter Ulbricht and support from Wilhelm Zaisser and Rudolf Herrnstadt , and in 1954 after a party reprimand she was excluded from the SED Central Committee. Until 1967 she worked as the director of the Institute for Clothing Culture (later the German Fashion Institute ). On July 29, 1956, Schmidt was rehabilitated by the SED Central Committee.

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She received the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1965, the Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1968 and the Karl Marx Order in 1978 . Elli Schmidt lived with Anton Ackermann until 1949 and had two children with him.

Your urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Literature and Sources

  • Horst Laude, Helmut Müller-Enbergs:  Elli Schmidt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , pp. 673-674.
  • Elli Schmidt: I experienced Victory Day in Moscow. In: Under the sign of the red star. Memories. Dietz Verlag Berlin 1974, pp. 205-220.
  • Elli Schmidt: We created the unified democratic women's organization. In: The first years. Memories. Dietz Verlag Berlin 1985, pp. 284-292.
  • Federal archive SAPMO SgY30 / 1305 (curriculum vitae and memories)
  • Landesarchiv Berlin CRep 102 No. 164 Vol. 1 (Elli Ackermann née Schmidt, American questionnaire for the Berlin city councilors 1946)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The reconstruction of the KPD on www.gewerkschaftsprozesse.de
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 30, 1968, p. 4

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Elli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Irene Gardener
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1980
Place of death Berlin