Gerda Nowack

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Gerda Nowack (born January 22, 1915 in Breslau , † after 1986) was a German political functionary ( KPD ).

Life and activity

Nowack was the daughter of a wood sculptor and Social Democrat. After graduating from secondary school in 1930, she completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked as a typist.

In 1929 she joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and in 1930 the Central Association of Employees (ZdA). In 1931 Nowack joined the Socialist Youth Association of Germany (SJV) with a large part of the Breslau SAJ . At the end of 1933 she joined the illegal Communist Youth Organization (KJO).

Until her first arrest in May 1935 by the Secret State Police , Nowack was illegally active in the communist underground organization against the Nazi regime established in spring 1933 . She was released in July 1935 because the Gestapo hoped to find further traces of the illegal organization by secretly monitoring her behavior. Nowack, who did not escape their surveillance, fled to Czechoslovakia as a result.

From 1935 to 1942, Nowack was wanted on a wanted list. She was expatriated in August 1942.

In the course of the annexation of parts of Czechoslovakia by the Nazi government in 1938, Nowack fled to Great Britain.

In the spring of 1940, the Reich Security Main Office placed Nowack on the so-called special wanted list GB , a directory of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the German Wehrmacht, automatically and primarily from special commandos, the National Socialist police organs continued to claim as a “dangerous” enemy of the state should be arrested by the SS .

In 1948 Nowack went to the United States. In 1962 she returned to Germany. In 1986 she joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany . In 1987 she lived in Nuremberg .

literature

  • Theodor Bergmann : "Against the Current". The history of the KPD (opposition) , 2001, p. 504.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Nowack on the special wanted list GB on the website of the Imperial War Museum
personal data
SURNAME Nowack, Gerda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political functionary (KPD)
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century