Gerda Stern

Gerda Stern (born April 14, 1903 ; † 1992 in Berlin ) was an editor and KPD functionary.

Life

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Gerda Stern born Frankfurter, daughter of a Jewish lawyer in Berlin, worked after her training and until her marriage in 1927 with Moritz Garbaty , lawyer and son of the Berlin cigarette manufacturer Garbaty, as an arts and crafts woman in Berlin. In 1933 she emigrated to the Soviet Union as a member of the KPD and was a language teacher at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. After a short stay in the USA in 1941 and her marriage to Wolf Stern (1897–1961), she returned to Moscow and was a. a. until 1950 editor and translator. In 1950 she got caught up in the Stalinist purges in Moscow and was sentenced to 10 years in exile. Released in 1956, she moved to the GDR and lived in Halle until 1958. From 1959 to 1967 she headed the West Department in the federal executive committee of the DFD in Berlin. In 1973 she received the Clara Zetkin Medal , in 1983 the Karl Marx Order and in 1988 the Star of Friendship of Nations in silver. Your urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

literature

• Karin Hartewig: Back. The history of the Jewish communists in the GDR. Boehlau 2000

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• Federal archive SAPMO DY31 (DFD archive, meetings of the DFD secretariat on June 24, 1959, February 2, 1965, September 26, 1967 and August 10, 1976)
• New Germany from April 14, 1983