Frieda Unger

Frieda Unger (around 1921)

Frieda Unger , née Eckert (born July 9, 1888 in Schopfheim , † April 12, 1975 in Berlin ) was a German politician.

Life

Frieda Eckert was born as the daughter of a master stone mason in Schopfheim. Her father died when she was three years old. She grew up in modest circumstances. At the age of 14 she had to earn her own living and went to Basel as a maid. There she met her first husband, the bricklayer Karl Unger. They married in 1910, and the active Social Democrat initially inspired them to see his party's ideas. In 1914, however, she did not agree with the attitude of the SPD at the outbreak of the First World War . In 1918 she therefore joined the USPD . Frieda Unger had lived in Lahr since 1914 and attracted attention there through her great commitment. In 1919 she was elected city councilor. From 1921 to 1925 she was a member of the Baden state parliament , initially for the USPD, from 1922 for the KPD .

In September 1923 she played a prominent role in the attempted coup in Central Baden, at the end of which the Soviet Republic was to stand. The attempted coup failed. Despite her immunity as a member of parliament, Frieda Unger was taken into custody from November 1923 to spring 1924. She was only released at the sessions of the state parliament. After the loss of their mandate they went into hiding, but was caught and in May 1926 by Supreme Court to two and a half years in Leipzig for preparation of high treason and coercion prison convicted. She spent her sentence in Bruchsal prison in 1926 and 1927, and in 1927 she was released from part of the sentence. At this point, her marriage to Karl Unger had failed, and the four children often did not know where their mother was. In 1927 she married the worker Max Haas and moved with him to Berlin-Neukölln in 1931 . From 1933 Frieda Unger was active in the communist resistance until her group was discovered in 1937 and Frieda Unger was imprisoned for several months. Karl Ludwig Unger died on December 15, 1945 as a result of his imprisonment in the Dreibergen concentration camp .

After the end of the war in 1945, until her retirement in 1948, she was head of department in the Central Board of the Association of Mutual Peasant Aid (VdgB) in the Soviet occupation zone , responsible for women's issues. From 1948 to 1949 she was a member of the DFD federal board. Until she was 70, she headed a residential district group of the National Front in Berlin-Johannisthal . On her 80th birthday she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver by the GDR .

literature

• Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German MPs since 1919. Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1012-8 .
• Frank Raberg : Frieda Unger (1888 to 1975). In: Moments. Contributions to regional studies of Baden-Württemberg , No. 1/2005, p. 22, Staatsanzeiger-Verlag, Stuttgart.
• Dorothea Keuler: Frieda Unger. Fearless of the mighty. In: dies .: Provocative women. Historical scandals from Baden and Württemberg. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8425-1134-7 , pp. 180-195.
• Unger, Frieda . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

• Minutes of the Baden state parliament with speeches by Frieda Unger, excerpts http://frieda.lahrrad.de/mb/blog
• Frieda Unger's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Entry Unger, Frieda on Discover regional studies online - leobw; with the biography of Frieda Unger by Renate Liessem-Breinlinger in: Badische Biographien NF 1, 258-259
• Speeches by Frieda Unger in the Baden state parliament in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to Section 7 of the Law for the Protection of the Republic . From July 21, 1922. Legal text
2. ↑ see judgment in the trial against communist members of the Baden state parliament. In: Freiburger Zeitung of June 1, 1926, 1st sheet
3. ^ LG Offenburg, October 25, 1948 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German convictions for Nazi homicides 1945–1966, Vol. III, edited by Adelheid L. Rüter-Ehlermann, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1969, No. 90, pp. 287–295 Denunciation of a former communist for derogatory statements about the Nazi government and the conditions in Germany ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was used automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.