Hanna Sandtner

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Hanna Sandtner , nee Ritter, (born August 26, 1900 in Munich , † February 26, 1958 in Berlin ) was a German KPD politician and functionary .

Life

Hanna Sandtner was born in 1900 as Johanna Ritter as the daughter of a chauffeur in Munich. She adopted the name Sandtner in the 1920s after she married the communist Augustin Sandtner . In her youth she worked in a cardboard factory and as an office clerk. In 1918 she became a member of the Spartakusbund . The German Communist Party (KPD) they belonged to since its inception.

In 1919 Sandtner was sentenced to six months imprisonment for participating in the fighting of the Bavarian Soviet Republic . In 1921 she took part in the Central German uprising . After its suppression, she was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for “offenses against the Explosives Act”, which she served between 1921 and 1923 in the women's penitentiary in Aichach .

After his release from prison, Sandtner became a Polleiterin in Munich and a women’s leader in the KPD district leadership in southern Bavaria. It was there that she met her future husband Augustin Sandtner. In 1923 she moved to Berlin, where she worked from 1925 to 1931 as an employee at the Soviet trade agency. In 1931 she became a full-time functionary in the KPD district leadership in Berlin-Brandenburg. In the same year she became a city ​​councilor in Berlin , an activity that she was to carry out until February 1933.

In June 1931, Sandtner became a member of the Reichstag in Berlin , where she took over the mandate of the MP Ernst Reinke . In the Reichstag elections in July 1932 , Sandtner's mandate was confirmed once before she left parliament after the November 1932 elections. In parliament she represented constituency 2 (Berlin).

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in January 1933, Sandtner began to work in February 1933 as an illegal instructor in the northern sub-district of Berlin.

In February 1934 Sandtner fled to the Soviet Union , where she settled in Moscow and attended courses at the International Lenin School . In December 1934 she traveled to Austria under a false name. In the following months she worked in the leadership of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) in Vienna . On October 30, 1935, Sandtner was arrested under the name Anna Gelb in Vienna and sentenced in March 1936 to one and a half years in prison for “high treason”. Sandtner's husband, who had been in custody in Germany since 1935, was murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1944 .

In July 1936, Sandtner was given amnesty by the Austrian authorities. In 1937 she came to Czechoslovakia, where she worked for the communist movement in Prague until the German occupation of the country . After that she lived in Poland for a while, later she went to Norway, where she was one of the most prominent German emigrants and began a relationship with her fellow exile, Paul Jahnke . In 1940 she fled to Sweden. Sandtner and her partner were initially interned there. After her release from internment, Sandtner worked as a cleaning lady and metal worker. In the group of exile communists living in Sweden, she and Jahnke were temporarily isolated. The reasons for this were an alleged shaking of party consciousness due to the emigration situation and the doubts expressed by Jahnke in the summer of 1941 about the Red Army's prospects of victory in the Eastern War, which Sandtner had not contradicted.

At the beginning of March 1946, Sandtner returned to Berlin, where she became a consultant in the Labor and Social Welfare Department in the SED party executive . In March 1947, Sandtner became the managing director of Volkssolidarität. In September 1948, Sandtner fell seriously ill. In order to cure her suffering - probably also to monitor the writer Erich Weinert , who was also there - she went to Switzerland for a few months. In May 1949, Sandtner was transferred to the People's Police Headquarters in Berlin, where she took over the management of the press department with the rank of VP Commander (Lieutenant Colonel).

At the end of 1950, Sandtner was recalled on the basis of order No. 2 because of her emigration to the west, but also because of her serious illness. At the beginning of April 1951, Sandtner became head of the technical school of the VEB Textil-Mode in Berlin-Friedrichshain . In 1954 she received a reprimand for behavior that was harmful to the party.

Awards in the GDR

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Uwe Heilemann: Norge med Willy. Through Norway in the footsteps of Willy Brandt , 2003, p. 23.
  2. ↑ Michael F. Scholz: Would you like experience? Nachexil und Remigration , 2000, p. 140.
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel 25/1953, p. 12ff.
  4. ↑ New Times of April 4, 1951
  5. ^ New Germany of February 26, 1950
personal data
SURNAME Sandtner, Hanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritter, Johanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German KPD functionary, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1958
Place of death Berlin