Gertrud Morgner

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Gertrud Morgner , née Müller (born August 8, 1887 in Gera , † July 20, 1978 in Berlin ) was a German politician . She was a co-founder of the KPD in Jena .

Life

Gertrud Müller, daughter of a weaver , learned the trade of tailor . In 1907 she married the trade unionist and social democrat Edwin Morgner (1884–1943). Their daughter Hildegard was born in the same year . In 1909 the family moved to Jena.

In 1909 Gertrud Morgner joined the SPD . From 1909 to 1913 she was a member of the local executive committee and head of the SPD women's department in Jena. During the First World War she organized leaflet campaigns and women's demonstrations and was expelled from the SPD for anti-militarist propaganda. In 1916 she became a member of the Spartacus group and in 1917 the USPD . In November 1918, Morgner was elected second chairwoman of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Jena. At the end of November 1918, she founded a housewives ' council in Jena , which was recognized by the unions and received a “seat and vote in the local union cartel”. Together with her husband, she took part in the founding party conference of the KPD (December 30, 1918 - January 1, 1919) in Berlin . Edwin Morgner was a member of the workers' council at Carl Zeiss Jena , both of whom founded the KPD local group in Jena in January 1919 in the “Zum Löwen” trade union building. Morgner belonged to the board of the KPD local group Jena, for a time she was also a member of the KPD district leadership Thuringia .

Wanted because of her participation in the March fighting in Central Germany in 1921 - she had been a member of the "Revolutionary Committee" in Thuringia, she went to Berlin to go underground. After an amnesty , she held positions in Berlin from 1922 to 1926 in the Reich women's leadership of the KPD and worked as a propagandist for the Central Committee. From 1927 to 1929 Morgner was secretary and partner of the KPD Reichstag member Emil Höllein (1880–1929). She then headed a KPD operating cell.

In March 1932 she traveled to the Soviet Union with her husband, Edwin Morgner . She became the head of the women's activity in the Foreigners Department in Moscow and a member of the CPSU . From June 1941 she was an editor at Moscow Radio , but after the arrest of her husband by the NKVD in September 1941 she was expelled from the CPSU and later evacuated to Kazakhstan . She worked there as a seamstress in the settlement of Ossakarowka . She only found out in 1949 that her husband had died on January 31, 1943.

In May 1954 she returned to the GDR and became a member of the SED . Morgner worked in the Democratic Women's Association of Germany , in the National Front and in the Peace Council . On January 4, 1959, she received honorary citizenship of the city of Jena . In the GDR she was honored as a party veteran, but her fate and that of her husband in the Soviet Union were kept secret. She last lived in the veterans home of the SED Central Committee in Berlin-Köpenick . Gertrud Morgner died on July 20, 1978 and was buried in the “Pergolenweg” grave complex in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

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  1. ↑ Dania Alasti: Women in the November revolution. Unrast-Verlag 2018; quoted n .: Dania Alasti: Women in the November Revolution . In: our time of March 8, 1918
personal data
SURNAME Morgner, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Gertrud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, co-founder of the KPD
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1978
Place of death Berlin