Erika Ewert

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Erika Ewert (born October 30, 1901 in Spandau ; † 1974 in Hamburg ) was from 1947 to 1955 a member of the Bremen citizenship for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

biography

Family, education and work

Ewert was the daughter of a worker. She attended elementary school and worked as a pattern maker, commercial clerk and accountant. Most recently, as a KPD member, she gave the job title of housewife .

politics

Ewert had been a union member since 1921 and joined the KPD in 1931. From 1924 to 1933 she worked as a functionary in Berlin's workers' sport . In 1934 she moved to Hamburg , where her apartment was bombed out during the war and Ewert was evacuated beforehand. There she was active in the resistance against National Socialism.

In 1949 Ewert was a member of the state leadership of the KPD in Bremen and was the only woman in the seven-person secretariat. From 1951 she was the full-time KP secretary responsible for local politics. She was also the first district secretary of the KP in Bremen-Nord.

From 1947 to 1955 she belonged to the Bremen citizenship and from 1951 was deputy parliamentary group leader of the KPD. From 1956 to 1957 she was a member of the Vegesack Advisory Board for the Communist Party of Germany .

Publications

As “person responsible for press law”, Erika Ewert published some propaganda brochures for the party executive of the KPD in Düsseldorf in the years 1955–56 . (Selection)

  • White book of the Communist Party of Germany on the first 6 months of the ban process before the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. Compiled according to the official minutes of the court hearing . Responsible Erika Ewert. [Düsseldorf], party executive of the KPD, 1955
  • The KPD was, is and will be in 1955.

literature

  • Hendrik Bunke: The KPD in Bremen: 1945 to 1968 , Cologne: PapyRossa-Verlag, 2001 (PapyRossa-Hochschulschriften; 36. Zugl .: Bremen Univ. , Dissertation 2001) ISBN 3-89438-230-9 .
  • Edith Laudowicz : Ewert, Erika . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
  • Joachim Oltmann: Cold War and Communal Integration: Workers 'Movement in the Bremen-Vegesack District 1945-1956 , Marburg: Verlag Arbeiterbewegen und Gesellschaftswwissenschaft, 1987 (series of publications by the study society for social history and workers' movement; 63) ISBN 3-921630-71-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 75 years of women's suffrage - where are we women today? ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 23 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bremer-frauenmuseum.de
  2. ↑ The Lexicon Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi Regime 1933 to 1945 , 2002ff., Lists an Erika Ewert in vol. 2 on p. 144 , without giving any further details about her resistance activities
personal data
SURNAME Ewert, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Spandau
DATE OF DEATH 1974
Place of death Hamburg