Grete Keilson

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Margarete "Grete" Fuchs-Keilson (née Schnate , born December 21, 1905 in Berlin ; † January 4, 1999 in Dresden ) was a German functionary of the KPD and SED .

biography

The daughter of a worker joined the Communist Youth of Germany (KJD) after attending primary and commercial school in 1922 and became a member of the KPD in 1925 . Subsequently, she was an instructor for company and city block newspapers. In 1927 she married the graphic artist and journalist Max Keilson . With this she accompanied the delegation of the Central Committee of the KPD to the VI in 1928 . World Congress 1928 of the Communist International (Comintern) to Moscow . The following year she worked for the head of the Comintern's Western European Office, Georgi Dimitrov , and at the same time, until his arrest after the Reichstag fire on March 9, 1933, his secretary under the code name Marianne .

After Dimitrov's arrest , she herself emigrated to Paris , where on August 20, 1933, she worked for the World Committee against War and Fascism, for which she worked in Prague between 1935 and 1936 under the alias Alma . In 1936 she returned to Paris, where she worked under the code name Agnes in the secretariat of the Central Committee of the KPD. As such, she was the central secretary for the organizational management of the apparatus until 1939 and then worked for the Comintern apparatus in Moscow. In 1943 she became an employee in the office of the chairman of the KPD Wilhelm Pieck and took part in these functions at the founding meetings of the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD) and the Federation of German Officers (BDO) in September 1943. In the period that followed, she not only performed courier services, but also did political educational work in prisoner-of-war camps, and from autumn 1944 was a member of the group for deployment in Germany.

After her return to Germany in June 1945, she was head of the personnel policy department at the central committee of the KPD from late 1945 to 1948 and, after the compulsory merger of the SPD and KPD into the SED in 1946, head of the cadre department of the SED party executive on par with Alexander, who came from the SPD Delete . At the same time, she was a member of the revision committee of the SED party executive between 1946 and 1950. On October 6, 1948, by resolution of the Central Secretariat of the SED, after the previous shareholders of DEFA ( Herbert Volkmann , Alfred Lindemann , Kurt Maetzig ) had been dismissed, she was appointed as a new shareholder alongside the other employees of the party apparatus, Alexander Lösche and Wilhelm Meißner .

Grave of Klaus Fuchs and Margarete Fuchs in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery

Grete Keilson was also head of the International Relations Department at the SED Central Committee from 1948 to 1952 . In this role she was on the government side with State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry, Anton Ackermann . After that, Keilson was "demoted" and was then until 1959 as the representative of Peter Florin , who had previously been deputy head of the department, deputy head of this department. In this function, she was temporarily a member of the Foreign Policy Commission at the Politburo of the SED under the leadership of Walter Ulbricht and then Heinrich Rau as well as a member of the Central Committee for foreign travel under the leadership of Foreign Minister Wilhelm Zaisser , who was informed about any trips by SED functionaries to Abroad decided.

In 1959 she married the nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs for the second time .

Most recently she worked in the press department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR until she retired in 1970 .

For her services in the GDR and the SED, she received, among other awards, the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1955 , the Honorary Clasp for the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1970 and the Star of Friendship of Nations in 1985 . Her urn was buried in the “Pergolenweg” grave complex at the Socialist Memorial at the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

In 1969 she published in the series Articles on the History of the Labor Movement Memories of Georgi Dimitrov .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Wilke: Anatomy of the party headquarters: the KPD / SED on the way to power ; 1998; ISBN 3050032200 ; Pp. 77, 86
  2. ^ Henry Leide: Nazi Criminals and State Security ; 2005; ISBN 352535018X ; P. 147
  3. ^ DEFA chronicle for the year 1948
  4. ^ Martin Broszat, Hermann Weber: SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation 1945 to 1949 ; 1993; ISBN 3486552627 ; P. 505
  5. ^ Heike Amos: Politics and Organization of the SED Headquarters 1949 - 1963: Structure and working method of the Politburo, Secretariat, Central Committee and Central Committee apparatus ; 2003; ISBN 3825861872 ; P. 113
  6. ^ Heike Amos: Politics and Organization of the SED Headquarters 1949 - 1963: Structure and working method of the Politburo, Secretariat, Central Committee and Central Committee apparatus ; 2003; ISBN 3825861872 ; P. 400
  7. ↑ Torsten Diedrich, Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk: State Foundation on Raten ?: on the effects of the popular uprising in 1953 and the building of the Wall in 1961 on the state, military and society of the GDR ; 2005; ISBN 3861533804 ; P. 73
  8. ^ Heike Amos: Politics and Organization of the SED Headquarters 1949 - 1963: Structure and working method of the Politburo, Secretariat, Central Committee and Central Committee apparatus ; 2003; ISBN 3825861872 ; P. 178
personal data
SURNAME Keilson, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Margarete Schnate, Margarete Fuchs-Keilson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German KPD and SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1999
Place of death Dresden