Frieda Kruger

Frieda Krüger (born August 31, 1900 in Berlin ; † December 15, 1991 there ) was a German women and trade union official.

Life

Frieda Krüger, daughter of the tailor Heinrich Krüger and his wife Martha, trained as a stenographer in Berlin. In 1919 she joined the KPD and worked until 1923 as a shorthand typist in the Communist International in Moscow and in the Central Committee of the KPD in Berlin. Then she was a correspondent in the Soviet trade agency in Berlin and in various KPD-related companies until 1928. In 1928 she became the KPD women's leader for Berlin-Brandenburg , a member of the KPD district leadership and the KPD central committee.

In 1931 she completed a one-year course at the Lenin School in Moscow and took over the Reich women's leadership in Berlin in the Red Trade Union Organization (RGO). In 1932, again in Moscow, she worked in the women's secretariat of the Red Trade Union International (RGI) , from 1934 she did illegal work for the KPD in Prague and emigrated to Switzerland in 1937 . After returning to Berlin in 1945, she became a member of the SED in 1946 and worked as a stenographer for the FDGB.

She later headed the Berlin women's department of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) , then worked in the organizational department of the FDGB federal executive board and in 1949 headed the trade union . Until 1965 she was a member of the FDGB federal executive board, u. a. Speaker to the chairman Herbert Warnke .

In 1980 she was awarded the Order of Karl Marx awarded

literature

• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 .
• Siegfried Mielke (Ed.): Trade unionists in the Nazi state: persecution, resistance, emigration. Klartext Verlag: Essen 2008 ISBN 978-3-89861-914-1

swell

• Federal Archives SAPMO SgY 19/107, NY 4450;
• New Germany from 30./31. August 1975