Erika Buchmann

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Erika Buchmann (born November 19, 1902 in Munich , † November 19, 1971 in East Berlin ) was a German politician.

Life

Erika Buchmann was born as Erika Schollenbruch in Munich. Her father Rudolf Schollenbruch was a doctor and active in the SPD . During the Bavarian Soviet Republic he was appointed Minister of Health. After the founding of the KPD , he and his wife joined this party. The daughter Erika joined the Communist Youth Association (KJVD). She was also active in the Munich party organization, having previously worked as a shorthand typist in the editorial team of the USPD newspaper Der Kampf . She later worked as a secretary in the KPD state parliamentary group in Munich and was the women's director of the KPD state secretariat in Southern Bavaria . Before 1933 the communist and later member of the Reichstag, Franziska Kessel, worked in her household as a maid and nanny.

At the beginning of the Nazi regime she lived in Korntal near Ludwigsburg . She was married to Albert Buchmann , a former MPD member of the Reichstag . Her husband was arrested in 1933, and Erika Buchmann suffered the same fate in 1935. She was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. After she had served her sentence, she was taken to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp in Mecklenburg , from which she was released in 1940. In 1941 she was sent back to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she remained until the liberation on April 30, 1945. After the war, she processed her experiences in Ravensbrück in the books Women in the Concentration Camp and The Women of Ravensbrück . Maintaining the memory of the concentration camps was important to her.

After the war she worked on the political new beginning. From 1945 to 1949 she was a councilor in Stuttgart . She was also a member of the state constitutional assembly and was a member of the state parliament for the KPD in the first state parliament of Baden-Württemberg . When the Federal Constitutional Court pronounced the KPD ban in 1956 , she moved to what was then the GDR .

Works

  • Erika Buchmann: Women in the concentration camp . Stuttgart 1946.
  • Erika Buchmann (ed.): The women of Ravensbrück . Berlin (GDR) 1961.

literature

  • Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German MP since 1919 . Published by the State Center for Political Education on behalf of the State Parliament. Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1012-8 .
  • Wrecked women of local politics. Women in the Stuttgart municipal council 1945–1960 . Stuttgart City Archives , Stuttgart 2013, p. 15 f.
  • Grit Philipp: Erika Buchmann (1902–1971) communist, politician, concentration camp survivor (= research articles and materials from the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation , Volume 7) Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86331-077-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Chwalek: “For the time being I'm still in solitary confinement” - Franziska Kessel (1906–1934), in: Mainzer Geschichtsblätter 15 (2014), pp. 123–146, here p. 129.


personal data
SURNAME Buchmann, Erika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schollenbruch, Erika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 1971
Place of death Berlin