Frieda Sternberg

LPG chairwoman Sternberg (left) with Minister of Agriculture Heinz Kuhrig (2nd from left)

Frieda Sternberg b. Kühn (born March 3, 1920 in Aszlauken, Stallupönen district , East Prussia ; † December 31, 2009 in Bennewitz ) was co-founder and former LPG chairman of the LPG "Ernst Thälmann" in Bennewitz near Wurzen .

Sternberg was born in East Prussia. Her father worked as a carpenter in the Ruhr area and introduced Frieda Sternberg to socialist ideas during his home stays . Her mother died when she was 19 years old. She joined the SPD in 1945 and became a member of the SED after the merging of the SPD and KPD . In August 1953 she founded the LPG "Ernst Thälmann" together with six other farm workers. She was the first woman to manage an LPG in the GDR .

1954 to 1958 and 1963 to 1989 she was a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED . In 1968 she received the Karl Marx Order and in 1985 the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold. The author Helmut Sakowski let them appear slightly alienated in his two novels " Weg über Land " and " Daniel Druskat ".

literature

• Siegfried Kuntsche:  Sternberg, Frieda . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Frieda Sternberg (1920-2009) at Saxon Biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frieda Sternberg died. (PDF; 2.5 MB) In: Leipzigs Neue 1/2010. January 15, 2010, p. 10 , accessed June 19, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Conny Hanspach: Frieda Sternberg is dead ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , January 15, 2010, ISSN  0232-3222 .
3. ↑ Gerd Bender, Ulrich Falk (Ed.): Law in Socialism. Analysis of norm enforcement in post-war Eastern European societies (1944 / 45–1989). Vol. 1: Expropriation (= studies on European legal history. Vol. 113). Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-465-02796-5 , p. 165 (article partly in German, partly in English, partly in French).
4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , March 1, 1985, ISSN  0323-3375 , p. 2.