Elsa Hentschke
Elsa Hentschke (born Urland * July 6, 1898 in Oberseifersdorf ; † August 29, 1980 in Mittelherwigsdorf ) was a German politician ( SED ). From 1950 to 1963 she was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .
Life
Elsa Hentschke, daughter of a worker, attended elementary school and learned to weave on her mother's handloom as a child. From 1913 to 1919 she worked in agriculture. From 1919 to 1925 she worked as a weaver in Zittau , fell ill and had to give up work. At the invitation of Soviet comrades, who invited her to a sanatorium in the Crimea, she was able to be cured of her ailment. From 1927 she was employed as a forest worker, from 1929 to 1933 she was a housewife. She joined the KPD in 1932 .
After Hitler came to power in 1933, the Gestapo looked for her husband Reinhold Hentschke , who was living in illegality. She was locked up as a hostage for him in the Hohnstein concentration camp . After her release she did illegal resistance work, was arrested again and sentenced to three years in prison by the Freiberg Special Court on July 24, 1934 for distributing communist pamphlets, maintaining the KPD and defamation of the Reich government. She had to serve this sentence in Waldheim prison . After her release from prison in 1937, she was declared “stateless” and was left on her own, as her son Herbert Hentschke also lived in the Soviet Union . From 1938 she worked again as a weaver in the mechanical weaving mill in Zittau.
In 1945 she rejoined the KPD and in 1946 became a member of the SED. From 1946 to 1950 she was a member of the Oberseifersdorf community council. From 1946 to 1956 she was a member of the management of the Works Party Organization (BPO) of the SED and from 1948 to 1950 a member of the works union management (BGL) in the VEB Mechanische Weberei Zittau. Until 1952 she was a weaver at mechanical looms, then until 1956 a training instructor in Zittau Plant 6 and from 1956 a model weaver in the Zittau textile combine. From 1950 to 1963 she was a member of the SED parliamentary group in the People's Chamber . From 1958 to 1963 she was a member of the Committee on Labor and Social Policy.
Hentschke lived in Oberseifersdorf No. 187 and spent the last years of her life in the after-work home in Mittelherwigsdorf .
Awards and honors
- 1949 activist of the two-year plan
- 1951 Activist of the Five Year Plan
- 1955 Clara Zetkin Medal
- 1957 Silver badge of honor from the DFD
- 1958 medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945
- 1959 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1978 in gold
- In 1962 the portrait of Eva Schulze-Knabe "Weberin Else Hentschke" was exhibited at the 5th German Art Exhibition in Dresden.
literature
- Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 3rd electoral period, Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 298.
Web links
- Elsa Hentschke in Infoladen-Zittau (accessed on March 11, 2017).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Change of an old guild. Why young weavers use the Zittau worker veteran Elsa Hentschke as an example . In: Neues Deutschland , April 7, 1979, p. 11.
- ↑ A witness to a new bond . In: Neue Zeit , September 16, 1962, p. 4.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hentschke, Elsa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Urland, Elsa (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberseifersdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1980 |
| Place of death | Mittelherwigsdorf |