Grete Mildenberg

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Grete Mildenberg , née Hill, (born January 5, 1902 in Elbing , † June 2, 1969 in Chicago ) was a German worker and politician ( KPD ).

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Mildenberg attended elementary school . As a young woman she went to Berlin as a worker . There she married the Jewish merchant Walter Mildenberg. She also joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). For this she sat from 1929 to 1930 in the Berlin city council. In the September elections of 1930 Mildenberg was elected as a candidate of her party for constituency 4 (Potsdam I) in the Reichstag, to which she belonged until July 1932.

In 1931 Mildenberg was sentenced to eight months in prison by the Berlin-Mitte lay judge for a serious breach of the peace . After the NSDAP came to power in the spring of 1933, Mildenberg became involved in the communist underground movement. She was arrested in September 1933. In 1938 Mildenberg left the German Reich and went to Belgium with her husband and son, who was born in 1935; in February 1939 she emigrated to the USA via Le Havre and New York. The family settled in Chicago; there she applied for her naturalization as Greta Mildenberg in 1944.

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  • Youth Decide !. "Welfare State" or Workers 'and Peasants' State? , s. l. 1932.

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  1. ↑ Martin Schumacher: MDR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism , 1991, p. 57.
  2. ^ Illinois, Cook County Deaths. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  3. ^ Passanger Lists. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  4. ^ Illinois, Northern District (Eastern Division), Naturalization Index. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Mildenberg, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hill, Grete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German worker and politician (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 1969
Place of death Chicago